The August vegetable explosion is on! Tomatoes are ripe and richly flavored, squash is thin-skinned and tender. All are available in peak abundance at local farmer’s markets. This “soup” of vegetables simply stewed in their own juices cooks, as if by magic, with a simple layering of the ingredients in a pot. I culled this [...]
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Hot Buttered Ginger Peaches
August 9, 2011 – 11:04 am
Summer is fleeting and peaches are ripe for the picking and eating. Out of hand, over the sink with sweet juices running down my chin and arm, sliced and steeped in a quenching peachy lemonade, or pureed and churned into cold ice cream. These are a few of the ways I’ve been indulging in the [...]
A funny thing happened on the way to the allergist
August 5, 2011 – 10:12 pm
A honeybee sting nearly killed me when I was eight. It happened as I was running barefoot across a clover-scattered lawn to a neighbor’s house for a swim. I don’t recall much else – apparently I soon went into anaphylactic shock, passed out in the pool and woke up the next day at the [...]
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 [...]
Sprouted Grain and Coconut Flour Pancakes
March 6, 2011 – 12:46 pm
My last media project was a monumental two month-long recipe test/development for TLC’s Kitchen Boss series. What exactly did that mean? It meant that on extremely short notice, I said yes to a new and wonderful gig, packed up my belongings in New York and scurried back to Cleveland. It also meant taking a little [...]
Savory Wild Mushroom and Green Garlic Custards a la din din
May 11, 2010 – 4:37 pm
Wednesday evening, April 21. IACP 2010 Opening Reception: The ballroom of the very zexxxy The Nines was alive and buzzing with energy emitting from many of the 900 attendees of the 32nd annual IACP Conference held in the fantastic host city of Portland, Oregon. The large main room was jumping with guests exalted practically to [...]
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 [...]
Hot off the Grill: Grilled Plantains with Salty Cheese and Guava Paste from Steven Raichlen’s latest, Planet Barbecue
April 15, 2010 – 7:18 am
April showers brought May flowers, and also the long-awaited release of Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: 275 Recipes, 53 Countries, 6 Continents of Great Flavors. Steven, his assistant Nancy, myself and a couple of other conscientious crew busted out the recipe-testing portion of the book while tucked away in the lush tropical enclave of Coconut Grove, [...]
