Dark Days Week 14: Celeriac and Potato Gratin
With daylight savings time upon us, the dark days don’t seem so dark anymore, except in the food department. We […]
Vegetable Beef Hash (or hold the beef)
We don’t eat a lot of beef to start with and when we do make a pan roast or a […]
Dark Days Week 8: Frittata Meets Torta
Endlessly seasonal, the frittata makes a great meal. It is basically an open-faced omelet, eggs mixed with cooked vegetables and […]
Dark Days Week 1: Pork Roast with Potato-Rutabaga Gratin
For the Dark Days Challenge, which spans four and a half months, participants cook a meal a week based on […]
Tomato, Pepper and Sweet Potato Soup
While always willing to go prospecting in the pantry any time of year, I typically cook with local ingredients in […]
Saturday Soup: Potato and Kale
Saturdays are always hectic around here, when we’re rushing around to take care of a week’s errands, running off to […]
Potato, Zucchini and Red Pepper Gratin
When the humidity drops and the nights become cool, late summer gratins seem like the perfect transition to fall cuisine. […]
Peas-in-Pods Potato Salad
The amiable heirloom golden sweet snow peas from India that I planted in my pot garden have finally peaked and […]
Sea Scallops on Tomatillo Sauce
In the absence of tomatoes for canning last summer, I got lucky with an abundance of tomatillos and put up […]
Corned Beef to Pea Soup
St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, brings out a stir-crazy frenzy of events, mostly invented traditions as far as I can […]
Root Soup with Preserved Sage from the Pantry
Continuing my mission to use up the roots in my refrigerator, I made a delicious pureed soup of rutabaga, parsnips, […]
Pantry Potato Salad with Tomatillo Sauce
A couple of months ago, not long after this blog began, I posted a series on tomatillos. See November. I […]
Sparky Slow-cooked Red Cabbage
In the dead of winter, we hanker for nourishing food that is not just comforting but also sparky enough to […]
Scalloped Potatoes with Kale
Since I grow kale well into the late fall (I harvested the last bit of lacinato kale in the second […]
Eternity: Two People and a _______, the Last Bite
There’s an old joke that eternity can be defined as two people and a ham. Now I can attest to […]
Paper Chef 47: Hosting the Holidays
When I think of the year-end holiday season, I don’t think of a large ceremonial Christmas dinner but rather of […]
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