vegetarian

A Love Child at the Thanksgiving Table

November 18, 2012

I recently posted this Instagram photo of something new (to me) called Kaleidoscope sprouts. I discovered that lots of others had never heard of them either. My friend Colleen commented, “My two favorite veggies had a love child?” That is exactly what happened. Kaleidoscope sprouts, also known as flower sprouts, are a clever cross between [...]

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Nose-to-Tail Fennel

October 8, 2012

Fennel is a generous vegetable. It graces the table in spring and early summer, where it keeps company with asparagus and baby onions, and then again in fall, when it cozies up to eggplant and peppers, then apples and winter squash. In supermarkets I often see bulbs of fennel tightly wrapped in plastic, their stalks [...]

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Frances Mayes’s Tuscan Table

March 15, 2012

Virtually everyone who has traveled to Italy can describe a moment in which they were transported by food—whether a platter of plump, cheese-filled ravioli bathed in butter and sage; a silky, paper-thin slice of prosciutto draped over a warm puff of fried dough; a glossy cone of hand-dipped gelato. For Frances Mayes, author of the [...]

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Soup, Singlehandedly

February 8, 2012

I have good news: It is possible to cook with one hand. It took me awhile to figure this out. For a few days after my injury I moped around, thinking about all of the things I wouldn’t be able to cook for weeks and weeks, like this and this. Then I bucked up. In fact, [...]

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The Family Dish: Slow and Saucy Romano Beans

October 24, 2011

Green beans like to hang around, and I like that they like to hang around. Long after the corn and tomatoes and eggplant have departed from farmers market stalls, the piles of green beans remain, along with their cousins, flat-pod romano beans. In summer, I barely cook green beans, steaming them just until they are [...]

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Garlicky Lentil Soup with Carrots and Tuscan Kale

October 13, 2011

Honestly, I had no idea that so many of you apparently love lentil soup as much as I do. A few weeks ago I got an email from a reader requesting a recipe for my garlicky lentil soup. And then another, and another, and so on. I had mentioned the soup in a short Q [...]

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“Basic to Brilliant” Sweet Potato Spoonbread

October 3, 2011

(Photo by Hélène Dujardin from Basic to Brilliant, Y’All) I still remember the first time I came across a recipe for spoonbread, in one of my mother’s old cookbooks. She had a small, diverse collection, and as a girl I enjoyed paging through them, especially a small, spiral-bound book called The Savannah Cookbook. It was [...]

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The Family Dish: Good To The Bone

September 30, 2011

Every so often a ham bone comes into my possession, for which I am always grateful. This is usually thanks to my brother-in-law Darren, who sometimes puts out a ham for family gatherings, and who is generous enough to part with the bone so that I may have it. Once or twice, when friends have [...]

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Tangy Carrots, Deviled Eggs, and a Celebration of Southern-Latino Cuisine

September 26, 2011

You probably have a bag of carrots in your refrigerator. I do. I always do. Carrots are the workhorses of the vegetable world. Dependable. Right there in the crisper should you need one or two to sweeten your tomato sauce, or to flavor a batch of chicken broth, or to shred into a tossed salad. [...]

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The Family Dish: Tofu, Edamame, and Shiitake Frittata with Dipping Sauce

May 23, 2011

Incredibly, my copy of Madhur Jaffrey’s book World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking turned 30 this year. It was one of the first cookbooks I ever bought—before my cookbook-buying habit turned into a full-blown obsession, and long before I ever imagined I would use it to cook for my children. In some ways, the book is showing its [...]

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