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 …
For Summer … (+Tofu Salad)
[A visitor, July 2012.] It was sort of nice having the 4th of July holiday in the middle of the week this year. Three-day weekends …
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 …
How to Cook Meat As a Vegetarian (+ Lentil “Meat Balls”)
[Lentil “meat balls” and assorted other goodness, May 2012.] I’ve noted before that I am a vegetarian (it’s been … nearly half my life at …
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 …
(Not-too-Sweet) Strawberry Jam
The good news is that after my expression of teen angst last Friday San Francisco turned on a dime, helping us to forget a soggy …
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 …