Category: Vegetables + Salads
Vegetables + Fruits + Fungi Recipes
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For July 4th, we had an awesome time at my friend’s farm in New Jersey. We had all our barbecue items ready until it started raining–the eggplants and corn didn’t make it to the grill. We ended up boiling the corns on the cob and put away the eggplants for later use. I then used…
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I don’t have measurements for this recipe because it truly is a leftover bowl of whatever I needed to use up in the fridge. The only thing I bought is the sweet potato. Ingredients: sweet potato red cabbage broccoli scallion sprouts quinoa carrot avocado lemon juice oil, salt, pepper For the dressing: 2 garlic cloves…
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I wanted to eat shrimp tonight but picked up a pound of squid instead from Whole Foods that called out my name. My intent was to eat light for dinner with the least amount of time spent cooking. I got just that with this Asian-flavored salad. I used the Chinatown-bought wok here that I inherited…
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I can’t give you exact measurements to make this salad because I was assembling it by taste and by eye: a handful of arugula leaves in a bowl balanced with torn parsley and mint leaves, and then enough cherry tomatoes to add some color to the bowl. The apple cider vinegar is a nice touch…
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This is from Jamie Oliver’s Everyday Super Food with a few adjustments. If you’re out of luck and need to use frozen and cooked shrimp, make sure they are completely thawed and dried with paper towels before you mix them in with the marinade. (I’m sorry, by the way.) Leave them soaking longer so that…
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There’s several cauliflower pizza recipes out there, but my version doesn’t use tomato sauce because I don’t want my pizza to be soggy. Using one egg binds the ground cauliflower, but not so much that you can actually fold it and eat it like a pizza–you’ll still need a fork to eat this, and perhaps…
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Why aren’t you puréeing that corn? Because I want to leave some of them whole for texture. You’ve thought of everything! There’s a new man in my life and he’s been quite easy to impress, but I do have to admit that even I was pretty floored with this dish I whipped up after seeing…
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Dal is often referred to as lentils but it’s actually the split version of lentils, peas, chickpeas, mung beans, kidney beans, and so on. The edible seeds of various leguminous plants are called pulses. If a pulse is split into half, it is a dal. Rasam is a South Indian soup using tamarind and tomatoes…
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Spring cleaning is a bitch to do, but it’s always worth it in the end. You stand in front of your pantry and you can actually find stuff! I was applying the KonMari method of Marie Kondo to my kitchen cabinets when I found a small bag of farro. I set it aside to remind…
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Miriam and I drove up to the Catskills for her bachelorette party two weekends ago. Yep, a bachelorette party with just the two of us. I’ve known her for the last 12 years and even though we’re always miles away from each other, we just always pick up where we left off the next time…
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Summer came in late for us here in New York City. It’s already September and I’m only starting to see summer produce at the farmers’ markets. It was with some shock that I bought squash blossoms when I saw them at my Harlem’s produce stand one Tuesday morning while walking my dog Atticus. Ingredients: olive…
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We skipped spring this year here in New York City and went directly to tropical summer. It’s so hot and humid right now that I can’t recommend turning your oven on, but when alas, I did, because I can’t help but eat beets. I roasted 2 bunches of beets and refrigerated them to make 3…