Ferocious-sounding edibles area easily tamed into a deliciously verdant spring soup with some blanching, chopping, sweating, simmering, stirring, pureeing, slicing and crisping. Outdoor Farmers Market season has arrived, and I rejoice! Health benefits of eating nettles. Health benefits of eating lion’s mane mushrooms Soup ingredients sourced from the North Union Farmers Market
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Test shoot: Carrots
March 29, 2012 – 8:12 pm
I spent the better part of a recent weekend styling test shoots with Cleveland photographer Ricky Rhodes. We worked in the urban comfort of Kalman & Pabst Photo Group. The shoot was natural ingredient and whole-foods focused, and we kicked the session off by by getting up close and personal with affable bunches of varicolored [...]
Glorious Granola from Eleven Madison Park
January 14, 2012 – 4:01 pm
A meal at Eleven Madison Park is captivating – an exquisite parade of culinary jewels to be savored mouthful by grinning mouthful, and the delight doesn’t stop when the last trace of dessert is cleaned from the plate.
Yes, Soup For (Just) You, When You “Serve Yourself”
April 12, 2011 – 11:40 am
Sweet Potato Soup with Chickpeas, Chorizo and Kale (here I used the vegan chorizo by Field Roast), from, Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One, Joe Yonan If I were permitted only one word to describe Washington Post Food Editor Joe Yonan’s first book, Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One, what [...]
Taming the “beast of burdock”
May 21, 2010 – 8:00 pm
Read my latest edition of The Spice Trade at Ohio Authority, Ohio’s premier online magazine.
Artichoke Therapy
April 23, 2010 – 12:46 pm
My mother always told me that she found the act of cleaning and preparing vegetables therapeutic. At the time of that statement, as I watched her remove hundreds of tiny, hair-like roots from a huge mound of creamy white bean sprouts destined for a hot blast in the wok, I didn’t quite get it. More [...]
Warm up With a Spicy Dish, Hot Flow and a Cleveland Yoga giveaway!
March 5, 2010 – 9:41 am
Returning to the brutal cold and snow of my Motherland, Cleveland, after spending a lazy sunkissed week in the Mexican Yucatan was just plain old rude re-entry for this self-proclaimed freeze baby. Brrrrr. One snow angel at the first deep snowfall and I am DONE. Once home, I dropped the backpack that carried floaty little [...]
