Tomato Salad: Simplicity of the Season
I cook with color. I am as interested in balancing the colors and textures of food, as I am the […]
Fresh Corn Salad with Pepper Salsa
When I cook for a large annual picnic in August, I always want to serve local corn but it’s a […]
Wheat Berry Salad with Zucchini, Fava Beans and Raspberry Sauce
For Paper Chef 54, I randomly drew three ingredients – raspberries, zucchini/courgettes and beans – and got to choose a […]
Spring Gleaning
Just when I thought we had passed the spring, I cleaned out the garden for the next crops and gleaned […]
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 […]
Spinach Salad with Rhubarb Vinaigrette and Strawberries
This was one of those happy accidents of having a variety of things on the kitchen counter at once, and […]
Wilted Dandelion Greens with Wasabi Cream and Duck Bacon
This is a story about how one thing leads to another and produces an unexpected result. I made two amazing […]
Orange-roasted Lobster Salad for Paper Chef 51
I love how, in Paper Chef and other challenges, the random selection of ingredients, sometimes complementary, sometimes incongruous, evokes an […]
Beet Salad – a Medley
I recall that, when I briefly lived in Vienna as a student, the schnitzel was typically accompanied by a raw […]
Celery and Celery Root Salads
Celery root, also known as celeriac and knob celery, is a lumpy sphere with gnarly tendrils. While reminiscent of the […]
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 […]
Broccoli “Salad” with Preserved Lemons
During the winter, green (meaning lettuce-variety) salads do not always appeal, unless they’re made with bitter greens like escarole, radicchio, […]
OK Paris: The Correspondence Course 1
OK (my son and his fiancé, who really do use that moniker) have relocated from New York to Paris for […]
Beets on Beets
The other day, I was leafing through years of journals that I’ve kept documenting the bounty from “the Farm,” our […]
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