Pea and Radish Salad
When it comes to summer salad, I want bite. No limp lettuce for me. As the temperatures rise, simple, raw, […]
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 […]
Peas in Pots, and a Potato Salad with Peas and Pea Shoots
I grow climbing peas and beans in pots. Their rambling vines wrap around upturned tomato cages and provide a sculptural […]
Sweet Pea Pancakes with Smoked Salmon
Spring-flavored pea pancakes even taste green. The combination of crème fraiche and chives and spunky smoked salmon made a perfect […]
Zucchini, Peas and White Fish in Thai Red Curry Sauce
We were hot and hungry. We wanted quick and simple comfort food in the stunning heat of summer, something seasonal […]
Waste Not Want Not: Pea Pod Soup
I used to weep at the bushels full of peas set before me as a kid tasked with shelling them. […]
Pan-roasted Lettuce
Sometimes abundance is just too much. That’s what I think about lettuce right about now. With eight heads a week […]
Potatoes with Spring Vegetables and Green Garlic
Mid-spring is the perfect time for a delicious medley of lightly cooked and raw spring vegetables tossed with warm potatoes. […]
Waste Not Want Not: Yellow Split Pea Soup with Corned Beef Stock
The spicy and aromatic stock left over from cooking homemade corned beef brisket was simply too good to pour down […]
Pea Soup à la Cappuccino
Imagine June. A table at the edge of a porch overlooking misty Lake Geneva. Thunder storm brewing. Sparrows flitting in […]
Risotto with Sweet Peas
When short-term crops come into the garden and market, I tend to make as many variations as I can. I […]
Cold Green Pea and Mint Soup
This soup captures the moment in late spring when shelling peas are at their peak and mint is young, when […]
Spring Vegetables with Pasta
Before we are overwhelmed by the bounteous fruits and vegetables of summer, we find spring to be the time for […]
