Root Soup with Kale Chips
I spent the morning detailing my refrigerator. Seriously. I gathered my husband’s collection of brushes and probes for the non-greasy […]
Rutabaga Soup with Bacon and Apples
Everything tastes better with bacon, so goes the cliché. I went to Richmond, Virginia last week and had a non-bacon […]
Hakurei Turnips: A Salad, a Pickle and a Melange
Hakurei turnips are a sweet treat in the spring. Perfect white orbs, delicate in flavor, lend themselves to a raw […]
Dark Days 13: Root Soup with Cheese Wafers and Slaw
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For […]
Dark Days 10 One-Pot Challenge: Sunday Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables and Cider
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For […]
Turnip and Greens Soup
What in the wor(l)d? This is a simplified version of a classic French soup known as “Potage Untel” as Julia […]
Dark Days Week 12: No-Salt Tarragon-Braised Turnips or Chicken
With all of the recent talk from the government about reducing sodium intake, I started to think about what I […]
Festive Roots: Rutabagas with Pomegranate Seeds and Pink Peppercorns
At this time of year, I seek out ways to make ordinary food more festive. The other night we had […]
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 […]
Turnip and Beet Pickle
At the beginning of July, when the temperatures start to climb, simple foods served cold or grilled are an antidote […]
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 […]
OK Paris: A Correspondence Course 5 – Bored with Pasta
OK Paris is an ongoing exchange of culinary encounters and yearnings during OK’s half-year relocation from New York to Paris. […]
Cool-weather Cod with Mustard Seed
Our local fishmonger had beautiful cod wild-caught off the coast of Massachusetts, near one of those towns with a picturesque […]
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, […]
Mashed Rutabagas
Growing up, I associated rutabagas (which my grandmother called “neeps”) with wax. The supermarket variety of this large, yellow relative […]
Braised Turnips with Tomatoes and Garam Masala
In my early February fridge cleanout, I discovered some small white harukai turnips that under other circumstances would have been […]
