100+ Vegetarian Recipes
Pasta with Creamy Crushed Walnut Sauce
This is the best thing I’ve cooked with the least amount of effort in the past month. Most of my lazy lunches never make it to the site, but this pasta is an exception. If you have a favorite dried pasta, a few cloves of garlic, walnuts, and black pepper you can make it too. […]
10 Winter Salads That Steal the Show
I love a good winter salad. Cold weather welcomes bright salads, rich in color, flavor, and texture. The markets right now are all about chicories, citrus, and avocado. There are carrots, celeriac, and other roots. And then mushrooms, apples, nuts, and kale for days. For me, it’s a favorite time of year for salads. They […]
Broiled Saffron Dates
If you’ve been to my house at any point in recent years, you’ve likely had these dates. They take only slightly more effort to make than placing dates unadorned on a plate. And, there must be something unusually captivating about them because people always ask me how to make them. Someone in the comments called them […]
12 Last-Minute Thanksgiving Sides That Don’t Feel Last-Minute
Need one more Thanksgiving side? These fast, beautiful dishes come together in minutes but look like you planned them days ago. If you’re scrambling to round out your Thanksgiving side dishes this week, this is the list to browse. An emphasis on color, brightness, manageable (seasonal) ingredient lists, and big flavor is the order of […]
One-Pot Indian-Spiced Rice with Cauliflower and Tofu
We are staying in a little loft in San Francisco right now, trying to find our next place to live. The kitchen is tiny: two electric burners, a microwave, roughly 2 feet of counter space. There are many parallels to camping in the Airstream trailer, and one-pot meals have been front and center. Some better […]
Mushroom Lasagna
This is the mushroom lasagna I make when no-one is looking. The one where I cut a couple of traditional corners, add a few personal touches and, quite honestly, never look back. Sometimes I go long-form and use homemade pasta for the layers, other times it’s all about keeping the process quick — store-bought lasagna […]
Sautéed Brussels Sprouts with Garlic-Oregano Oil
These Brussels sprouts are just a ditty of a recipe, really. I threw them together as part of a quick lunch. And honestly, the Brussels sprouts I had on hand we’re a bit brutish – larger than I like, cosmetically rough, and past their prime. But after giving them a good scrub, and preening all […]
A Good Blended Vegetable Soup
This blended vegetable soup often makes an appearance after a trip. Specifically, when we arrive home to a mostly empty refrigerator. Alternately, I tend to cook it if f I’m needing a relatively low-lift, healthful soup that will yield some legit leftovers to be excited about later in the week. Because it’s blended, this soup […]
Vegan Red Pozole (Pozole Rojo / Mexican Hominy Stew)
For many years our “house pozole” was a bright, vegetarian green pozole (pozole verde). It’s a pozole made with serrano and poblano chiles, one that really goes for it on the cilantro and garlic fronts. It was my go-to pozole, I included the recipe in Near & Far and I would make it often in the […]
Feel-good Lunch Ideas
Coming up with inspired lunch ideas takes some effort. One of the things I’ve been trying to be better about is lunches on-the-go. Often times, let’s be honest, it’s re-marketing leftovers. Too often, if we’re not going to be home for the day, we just wing it. And I’m nearly always sorry we didn’t make […]