
Summer Rolls
These summer rolls make for a cool and refreshing dinner and if you get all the options set up on a platter, you can recruit everyone to...

Chinese Chicken Salad
This sweet heat dressing pulls together all the farmers market vegetables and shredded rotisserie chicken into a cool and refreshing...

Hummus
Hummus is easy to make at home and great to have on hand for when you need a quick lunch or snack plate. Homemade lets you customize the...

Blue Bottle Coffee’s Saffron Snickerdoodles
When I lived on the SF Peninsula I would get to the city as frequently as possible to enjoy time at my favorite bakeries and coffee...

Sourdough Bagels
Sometimes I wonder if the upkeep of my sourdough starter is worth it. But then I'll bake something, usually with a recipe from Maurizio,...

White Chocolate Strawberry Cashew Bars
I've been experimenting with cacao butter recently, and after making the Sunbutter Bars, I wanted to create a non-chocolate, cashew...

Overnight Oats
Thanks to Joshua McFadden and his book Grains for Every Season for getting me going on these. Make a big jar of the dry base mix and then...

Sugar Cookies
There are three factors to making bakery-style sugar cookies at home. You know what you want—cookies that hold their clean edge and shape...

SunButter Bars (Urban Remedy Knockoff)
When you live a thousand miles from an Urban Remedy shop and are addicted to their products, you either have to submit to shipping (which...

Broccoli Beef
My son and I adapted this recipe from a Cook's Illustrated page I had ripped from the September & October 2003 issue—before he was...

Mediterranean Farro or Sprouted Spelt Salad
This salad is very satisfying on its own, but sometimes I use it to justify salami for a meal—either on a piece of fresh baguette or...

Mocha Maca Budino with Silken Tofu
Dense and chocolatey, yet lighter than a full-dairy budino or pot de crème and way easier to make! If you're having a chocolate pudding...

How to Cook Beans
A no-recipe, recipe for cooking beans. Dried beans are simple to cook, they just take a little time—about 90 minutes on the stovetop or...

Amy’s Perfect Pie Dough (the easy way)
I turned a few apples into filling and wanted to make hand pies, but I didn't want to deal with making pie dough. Oh no! It almost...

Zingerman’s Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Thanks to the Zingerman's Bakehouse cookbook, I finally have a favorite oatmeal raisin cookie recipe. These cookies don't spread out too...

Farro with Chestnuts and Butternut Squash
Joyce Goldstein cooked with farro long before ancient grains became a thing. Â Hailing from the early days of Chez Panisse, she went on to...

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This is my favorite carrot cake now, exceptionally moist but way less sweet than typical because the cake is sweetened with maple syrup....

Chive and Caper Cream Cheese
This is an easy appetizer to keep in mind for Thanksgiving and holiday get togethers. Add smoked trout and some plain crackers (I like the...

Dry Fried Green Beans
It's late summer and green bean season here in Bozeman Montana. Try these dry fried green beans with some Amaltheia pork and serve it up...

Teriyaki Sauce for Salmon Rice Bowls
Once you have your rice cooking, this is a dinner that comes together in minutes, even making the teriyaki sauce—which is super simple and...

Bison Roast Barbacoa in Slow Cooker
While looking through my freezer recently, I came across a big roast from last year when we purchased a quarter from North Bridger Bison....

Mexican Chicken in the Slow Cooker
Here's a slow cooker chicken dish that you can use for simple tortilla roll-ups, tacos, or tostada salads. While the chicken is on the...

Chile-Garlic Pork
I discovered something wonderful last week. I needed a quick dinner, wanted to use the Amaltheia ground pork I had thawed, didn't have...

Strawberry Cashew Cream
Raw food chefs use cashews to make everything from "cheese" to "cheesecake". Being somewhat of a skeptic with "imposter foods", I stayed...

Crispy Lentils
Pantry items are a whole lot easier to incorporate into meals when you get them cooked. This photo is of a salad I threw together...

Beef Stew with Wine and Shallots (can be made with Bison or Elk)
Cold temps make me want to slow cook a big piece of meat, like this bison from North Bridger Bison. There's really not much to making a...

Mignonette for Oysters
Most of my oyster memories are midday affairs with either a waterfront view or heaping mounds of crushed ice and a wine list. But...

Barbacoa
I love the limey acidity in this slow cooked, spicy beef that I like to serve as soft tacos with chopped white onion, cilantro, sour...

Butternut Squash and Hominy Enchiladas
Here at RIPE, I don't do food styling, I cook dinner. So, please imagine this mound of Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese melted and crispy...

Sweet Potato Veggie Burgers
It's tough to make veggie burgers at home. Lots of recipes out there make burgers that are difficult to handle or they just don't...