Notes from the Potager: Peas, Basil, and Pasta Primavera
I would love my kitchen garden to be a true French potager. A pleasing and productive assortment of herbs, vegetables […]
Pasta with Garlic Scape Pesto and Steamed Scapes
Harvested garlic scapes are good keepers. They come into the garden all at once and must be cut so that […]
Creamy Garlic Scape Pesto Spread with Roasted Scapes
Abundance leads to ingenuity in the kitchen. Last fall, we planted several varieties of garlic en masse: Red Chesnok, Extra […]
Springtime Linguine with Leek and Asparagus “Noodles”
It’s all in how you slice it. Texture plays a tremendous role in food so I play with slicing and […]
Spinach Lasagna with Lox
There’s nothing like spinach to lighten up lasagna or lox to brighten its taste. I layered fresh spinach pasta with […]
Eggplant and Red Pepper Lasagna
Caught: cooking eggplant in winter. After winters of eating mostly local ingredients, which turned out to be not just possible […]
Mixed Mushroom Lasagna with Gorgonzola Sauce
This is one of the reasons we’ll be on a clear soup diet by New Year’s. This rich and homey dish […]
Non-dairy, Gluten-free, Vegan Butternut Squash and Chard Lasagna
That title sounds like an oxymoron. The dish actually turned out to be a calculated and highly successful experiment. I’m […]
Whole Wheat Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower, Bacon, and Herbed Croutons with Rosemary-sage Salt
Call this wheat on wheat. Comfort food after days in the yard and basement, still cleaning up after the recent […]
Red Chard Whole Wheat Lasagna
A rainy cold front swept through and left a yen for fall comfort food. In the moment, I made flavorful […]
Kale on Kale: Salad and Pasta, Happy Together
The raw and the cooked. Delicious, complexly flavored pasta with kale and stewed red onions served atop a raw kale […]
Chard and Walnut Lasagna
Managing the abundance of greens from a CSA or an overflowing garden can be a challenge. Your own garden gives […]
Red Chard and Golden Raisins with Orecchiette
I was like one of my kids separating stew on his dinner plate into identifiable parts. A two-pound bag of […]
Fava Beans: Supper from Garden to Table in No Time
During winter months, I have a routine for getting supper on the table quickly after a long day. As soon […]
Waste Not Want Not: Pickled Chard Stems and a Bunch of Ways to Use Them
The weather turned reliably warm and my chard bolted. I don’t mean, found the door and vamoosed. I mean, developed […]
Spring Spinach and Herb Gnocchi
The sweet spinach of spring heralds a growing season of bountiful greens. It is the time of year when the […]
