This Stuffed Acorn Squash with Quinoa, Chickpeas and Maple Tahini Dressing would be a welcome addition to your Thanksgiving menu. Call me crazy, but it is the type of dish to which I am most drawn on this holiday of beige food. I have nothing against beige food, per se — I love silky mashed…
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Crunchy Bread + Butter Pickles
I’ve been buying Kirby cucumbers in bulk from the farmer’s market — the compact kind with a bumpy exterior, mild flavor and addictive crunch. They are great sliced into salads, but their crunch factor makes them ideal candidates for pickling. And I love pickles…like really, truly love them. This recipe for Crunchy Bread and Butter…
Spring Farro Salad with Arugula, Peas, Artichokes, Radishes, Mint, Goat Cheese + Roasted Shallot Dressing
Are you hosting any get-to-togethers this spring/summer? A Memorial Day fete, perhaps? This vibrant salad would be perfect! If I am hosting a party, I’d say 9 times out of 10 I’m serving some iteration of a farro salad. It’s one of my entertaining hacks for feeding a hungry crowd. Here’s my case for farro:…
Herby New Potatoes + Asparagus with Lemon and Ghee
I intended to post this recipe in time for Easter last weekend — it would have made the perfect side for Easter brunch. Alas, life (read: two-year-old Rose) got in the way and I didn’t get around to it. BUT I am actually glad, because I wouldn’t want to pigeon-hole this recipe to one holiday…
Roasted Cauliflower Salad + Radicchio, Meyer Lemon and Crispy Capers
How, oh how is Christmas next week? Once again the season is coming and going all too rapidly for my liking. There are still presents to be bought, cookies to be baked, movies to be watched, etc. etc. We are headed to Florida for our friends’ wedding this weekend, so all holiday preparations are currently…
Roasted Honeynut Squash + Pomegranate Gremolata
According to the calendar, it is November 11…how!? The holiday season is upon us, and it already feels like it is slipping away from me. Perhaps four straight weeks of stomach bugs, colds and flus has something to do with that – such is life when you are living with a human germ incubator, aka…
