I've been in Yosemite most of this week, and so haven't been able to complete photography on a couple of new recipes I want to bring to you. In the meantime, here's another Weekly Vegetarian Menu of dinner ideas for the next week. If your week next week looks as busy as mine promises to be, you won't always have the time you'd like to cook up something healthy. I get it. In answer to that, this selection is focused on easy dinners! As I mentioned last week, I scour blogs I enjoy for recipes I ...
Weekly Vegetarian Menu #1
Ok, you guys. Here we go with my first Weekly Vegetarian Menu of the year, leaving you plenty of time to pick up groceries and plan over the weekend. As many of you might remember, I was part of a group with some friends last year where we jointly provided weekly menu plans for you. I offered up vegetarian spins on meat and fish dishes, but I got a lot of pushback from readers who preferred to see vegetarian dinner ideas. I totally get it - you want dishes that were originally created to be ...
Romanesco Pasta with Apples and Curry Cauliflower Sauce
Happy New Year! Let's get healthy. Have you tried romanesco yet? It's my lastest vegetable to play with. I'd already made up my mind to like it simply because I think it looks so cool. It looks like something whimsical you'd see growing from the ground in the Lord of the Rings series. With a hobbit sitting underneath it. But it's a little known vegetable originating in the 1600's in Italy. I call it "broccoli light", because that's what it tastes like, but it's ...
My Twelve Most Popular Recipes of 2017
I like to look back over the year to see which recipes called you into the kitchen. I never know what I'll find, and there are always surprises. As you can imagine, the results are always a little skewed by the length of time they've been around. A post from last January has had more time to get around then something I might have posted last week. Breads were the overall favorite with Easy Buttermilk Cornbread and Sweet Potato Bread with Honey taking the first two slots, and ...
Spiced Persimmon Cookies with Dried Figs | #SundaySupper
Persimmons are highly seasonal, rarely seen outside of late September through December. Their burnished orange colors personify autumn, and persimmon cookies are a favorite of mine this time of year. How to Use Persimmons There are two primary types of persimmons, with each type splintering off into several varieties. You've seen these exotic fruits resting in large bins at the market, but may be unsure of how to use them. Fuyu persimmons, the squat type, are hard, thin-skinned, and a little ...
Lemon Syllabub : The Hamilton Cookbook (Review)
I'm a history buff. I've read books on Elizabeth I, Catherine De' Medici, and Russia's Catherine the Great, and willingly dig into books about the Middle Ages. More recently, the 1700's and 1800's have captured my attention. I'm endlessly fascinated by the environment people grew up in, how it molded them, and how they impacted events in ways that we still feel. I'm now reading Ron Chernow's tomb, Grant, on Ulysses S. Grant. I'm learning a lot about the Civil War - or at least one side of it; ...
Old-Fashioned Potato Gratin | #SundaySupper
This is a traditional, old-fashioned potato gratin my great-grandmother, Mamma, might have made. She was a fantastic baker and cook, and her dinners and brunches were legendary. But this is a dish that invites your own stamp, so feel free to riff away. What we call potato gratin today originated in the Dauphiné region of France as gratin dauphinois, and has as many variations as there are cooks who make it. The original recipe, going back to the late 1700's, calls for thinly sliced raw ...
Pear Vinaigrette
I would argue that you can have all the makings for a stellar salad, worthy of a James Beard award or something equally lofty, but if you dress it with some mediocre dressing you threw together at the last minute, the salad will quickly become forgettable at best, and jarring at worst. Case in point: I recently had a lentil salad at a restaurant that could have been amazing, but missed the mark due to a tart lemon dressing that overwhelmed the flavors of the salad. It needed the rounded depth of ...
Vegetarian Thanksgiving Entrees
Thanksgiving is about the food. Sure, we give thanks and mean it, but really it's about the food. Just because most magazine covers have been touting the best, quickest, easiest ways to do your turkey this year, that's no reason for vegetarians to feel deprived. There are a wealth of entrees we can have, and know we had the best meal at the table. Side dishes are easy, but I always look for a dish filling enough and yes, gorgeous enough, that I can serve as an entree. Looking for some entree ...
Brussels Sprouts Gratin with Quinoa: #SundaySupper
I've yet to meet a gratin I didn't want to marry. Comfortable unpretentiousness, warm and welcoming, and so flexible. It can be a stand-alone dish, needing only a salad to round it out, or be one of many side dishes on a Thanksgiving table. It can be healthy or not-so-much, and accommodate almost any vegetable or fish. Cooking something au gratin means to bake it with a crust made of shavings of cheese and/or breadcrumbs. The word stems from a French word (yes, this dish is from the ...
{Gluten-Free} Chocolate Chip Cookies with Chickpea Flour: #SundaySupper
The best way to get your family to try something new, I mean really new, is to disguise it as something familiar and offer it when they're not suspecting anything devious. As my husband was getting dressed this morning, I offered him what looked very much like a chocolate chip cookie, warm from the oven. "Oh!! Chocolate chip cookies!" as he popped it in his mouth. "Kind of", I responded. He looked at me. "Well, there are chocolate chips in it, and it is a cookie." "Is it a ...
Jack-O-Lantern Apple Hand Pies: #ProgressiveEats
Are you ever overwhelmed by all the types of apples that show up in the markets around now? For a good snacking apple, I generally grab Honey Crisps and Fujis, in that order. They have the best balance of tart and sweet for me, and they're both juicy without risk of mealiness. But what about cooking and baking them? Obviously you don't want to use the same apples for making applesauce as you do for an apple pie. When it comes to baking, Braeburn apples are at the top of my list. I can ...
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