Dinner Ideas
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Citron Noodles with Miso Garlic Butter
These citron noodles were inspired by the Buddha’s hand citron I bought at the farmers’ market last week. I find it near impossible to pass them up, and love their ability to perfume my entire kitchen while I dream up their citrusy fate. The fava beans came from the next stall, and everything else you […]
Cottage Cheese Wraps
There was a point a couple years back when the algorithm decided I needed to know about cottage cheese wraps. They looked so tasty! They were everywhere! They seemed to be a breeze to make! You pool a quick-blended mixture of cottage cheese and eggs onto a rimmed sheet pan and bake until golden on […]
Baked Cabbage Sliders
These baked cabbage sliders cram all manner of good stuff into a crispy edged slider. Quinoa, eggs, cottage cheese, and a good amount of chopped cabbage all represent. I use one of my signature veggie burger moves here – anyone who has Super Natural Cooking (2007) might remember it. Instead of putting the sliders on […]