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We took on Sodium Girl’s challenge to create dishes that are good for the heart. Now granted, dessert isn’t necessarily the best thing for your health, but if you are going to splurg (and who doesn’t??) then at least choose something that isn’t loaded with transfats, artificial flavors and additives, or salt. Plus, lots of [...]
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Chut·ney: a thick sauce of Indian origin that contains fruits, vinegar, sugar, and spices and is used as a condiment.
Take advantage of all of the amazing stone fruit overflowing in the market right now and try making a chutney of your own! For this verision, I used apricots. But a combination of peaches, nectarines or [...]
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I’ve always thought of cabbage as providing a little healthy crunch on the top of a fish taco or for acting as the base for a cole slaw. Other than that, cabbage, let alone cooked cabbage, never entered my repertoire of ingredients. But I’ve recently discovered, thanks to my Indian boyfriend and his mother (who [...]
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I did it! My first cooking attempt with ramps was a success! A few things I learned…ramps DO really smell awful when you chop into them. I prepped everything for this tart then jetted out to a quick cocktail party before baking, only to return to one smelly mess of a house. But if you [...]
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Sometimes I play this game called “I’m too lazy to go to the supermarket, so what in my fridge can I coax into dinner??” Many times, this game ends very badly. But this time around it was a success! Using kitchen staples (eggs, olive oil, sea salt) and questionable scraps (potatoes developing roots, limp spinach, [...]
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When I tell people that steel-cut oatmeal is my preferred morning meal, I often hear back, “but it takes FOREVER to make!” Oh no my friends, you’ve been fooled. While the directions on the box say that it takes about 45 minutes to make up a batch – far longer than any of us are [...]
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When removed from your everyday eating environment – i.e. spending a week with your fam in another part of the state – you quickly realize that not everyone shares an “eat seasonal” state-of-mind. Hence being offered asparagus at Christmas dinner and tomato slices on my morning eggs. So when searching for an appetizer that would [...]
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These warm, baked apples practically ooze holiday spirit. Serve them alongside a hearty, savory egg dish and you’ve got a complete breakfast. And since they’re so simple to prepare, you can spend your time cooking up other dishes or kicking it with the fam. Outside of the holiday season, they would make a great breakfast [...]
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I came home from a work trip a few days after my CSA box arrived and realized Kele hadn’t touched any of the veggies inside. If you get a box, you know how time sensitive some of the goodies are and that I had to kick it into veggie-eating high gear! Inside this week’s box was a bulb of fennel with its [...]
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There is something utterly decadent about eating a bowl of granola with yogurt and fresh fruit in the morning. If you’ve ever ordered it from La Boulange in San Francisco or have had the pleasure of eating it from a local restaurant that makes its own version, you know what I’m talking about. But unfortunately [...]
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