Seasonal recipes for today's kitchen
November is here, and I find myself thinking often about past Thanksgiving gatherings. During my youth my mother’s family convened with lots of cousins, aunts, and uncles, all of us waiting to dig into the holiday specialties—Aunt Dean’s baked turkey and marshmallow-topped yams, my mom’s–Read more
A crunchy tortilla exterior encasing a silky vegetarian filling, held together with chili-flecked melted cheese describes the summer treat of Torta de Calabacitas. The torta is great fare for a light dinner and puts a dent in the zucchini drawer, too. Since the Unofficial Zucchini–Read more
I count rhubarb among spring mysteries. It’s a vegetable that’s treated as a fruit. It looks like blushing celery, but is actually part of the buckwheat family. Its leaves are poisonous, yet its stems are edible. Paired with sweet springtime fruits, it becomes a worthy–Read more
Our weeks of staying close to home have helped me appreciate little things more–how a few bright red tulips or golden daffodils in a yard brighten the whole space. How neighbors waving hello from their porches bring my walks an old-fashioned feel of friendliness. A–Read more
It’s funny what we miss when our access to grocery stores and abundance is limited. In the days when our freezer was plentifully packed, a bag of Ore-Ida Tater Tots might have called to join burgers as part of our dinner menu. But a recent–Read more
Like many friends and family, I’ve been working lately at how best to cook from my pantry stores. Almost serendipitously, I ran across a recipe for Monastery Soup while reading Caroline Eden’s latest book Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes Through Darkness and Light. Before I–Read more