New Year, New Soup
[In the redwoods, January 2013.] Today was a cooking day. By that I mean I made an enormous pan of butternut squash macaroni and cheese …
Roasted Butternut Squash Macaroni and Cheese
Thanksgiving was lovely, and now it’s on to the next thing, yes? This is how this time of year makes me feel: happy, so happy …
Lasagna with Sweet Potatoes, Chard, and Arugula Pesto
Feeling quiet this week – thinking of the East Coast, as it slowly restores power and digs out from under the devastation nature wrought and …
A Soup So Nice I Made it Twice (e.g. Vegetarian Minestrone Soup)
[Dinner, September 2012.] My parents are currently in Italy for three weeks, taking the long-dreamed-of trip of a lifetime. Of course I had them over …
Quinoa ‘Greek Salad’
When we were in Maine, we ate piles and piles of tomatoes grown in the backyard garden. Such richness! I ate cherry tomatoes like candy …
Vegan Pesto, Revisited
[Dinner, June 2012.] Last night the fog floated in – perhaps not quite on little cat feet, but close enough – and it is still …
A Reminisce (+ Pearl Couscous with Tomatoes and Feta)
There was a lot of cake last weekend – did I mention the cake? – and a bit more this week, too, of the banana-chocolate-almond …
Quinoa Salad with Feta and Mint
How do I love quinoa? Let me count the ways: it’s a whole grain that’s actually a seed (I wrote an article for NPR in …
Nettle Pesto? Nettle Pesto!
“Bring home some nettles,” I told my husband a few weeks ago as we parted ways on a sunny San Francisco Saturday. I was headed …
In Spring, Vegetables (+ Cabbage-Kale Salad)
[Climbing the Filbert Steps, San Francisco, March 2012.] March, which seemed to trod along quite slowly (no complaints here) is suddenly over and here it …