
Sweet Chia & Celery Seed Dressing
This sweet dressing is great on arugula and served with grilled white fish, plain or served as tacos with blood orange salsa. Thanks to...

Good Together: Grilled Fish & Blood Orange Salsa
What's for dinner? White fish on the grill with this blood orange salsa from the February issue of Eating Well ("Fish Tostadas with Blood...

Orange Blueberry Muffins
The muffin top here is crisp perfection and the interior crumb is light, like that of a fine cake. Who knew home-baked muffins could be...

Minestrone, The Seasonal Italian Soup
Minestrone The structure of this minestrone includes lentils, beans and some orecchiette pasta. I like using these three ingredients...

Salad with Smoked Trout, Hazelnuts and Pomelo
This salad is a real treat when you're burned out on winter food and craving something light and refreshing. I'm all for local, but thank...

Flageolet Beans with Lemon Dressing
It surprises me how delicious something as simple as a bean can be. The best ones don't come from a can, they're the ones you cook...

Vietnamese Dipping Sauce “Nuoc Cham”
The Joy of Cooking's recipe for "Vietnamese Rice Noodle Bowls" caught my son's attention, so we worked together on dinner last night. The...

Fish Curry
Curry is not difficult to make, but I do recommend using the best coconut milk (Chaokoh), fish sauce (Red Boat), and fresh fish. Once you...

Green Tomato and Apple Chutney (Small Batch)
I picked a lot of green tomatoes this year. A snowstorm was forecast for the last weekend of September, so in the days preceding, I...

Summer Succotash
Make this quick sauté when you have fresh corn and summer squash. It is a fantastic partner to grilled salmon, especially if you make the...

Oatmeal Crumble Berry Bars
There are thousands of recipes out there for something similar. But the reason I post is to share what I learn while trying to make...

Crispy Cauliflower and Shallots
I might start adding sliced shallots to all of my sheet pan vegetable roasts— what a great idea from Aran of Cannelle et Vanille! We...

Sourdough Bread for Toast
homemade sourdough loaf getting ready for the toaster Would you like to bake sourdough bread at home? It's easier than you think. I've had...

Extra-Crispy Baked Tofu
I began to like tofu when I learned how to get it hot and crispy instead of cold and squishy. Thanks to Kathryne Taylor of Cookie + Kate...

Basics: Chicken Soup
Let's make chicken soup! Your grandma knew how to do it, and you should too. Get it done with onion, carrots, and celery, plus some...

Cabbage, Carrot and Radish Slaw with Orange-Cumin Honey Dressing
One of the things I love about getting a CSA box is that it nudges me to use what I have on hand instead of running to the store for...

What You Learn Making “Channa Masala”
Chickpeas in spicy sauce served with rice and perhaps a dollop of cucumber raita, channa is feel-good comfort food. Classic Indian...

Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes
Oven space is always at a premium when you're cooking a holiday meal, especially Thanksgiving. So made-in-advance doesn't really...

What You Learn Making Vegetable Soup (+ Turkey Meatballs!)
Wilted chard and once vibrant dragon tongue beans were giving me the guilties each morning as I pushed them aside to find my almond milk. ...

Overnight Steel-Cut or Whole Grain Oats in the Slow Cooker
Cool autumn mornings call for something warm at breakfast, but there's still the same, never a spare minute, amount of time to get...

Roasted Tomatillo Salsa
"This is as good as a hamburger." When I hear something like that in our house, I consider it a happy success. Switching from...

Peach and Blueberry Pie
"It snowed here this weekend, but I'm going to pretend it's still summer." Sounds good, Kristine, @theearnestbaker! I'm going with it...

White-Cooked Chicken with Rice, Greens and Ginger-Soy Dressing
"White-cooked chicken" is a Cantonese recipe that gets its name from the fact that there's no soy sauce in the poaching liquid, so the...

Plum Jam
Small batch, refrigerator jams give you the pleasure of jam making without all the fuss of canning. You can also play around in ways that...

Tin Foil Shrimp Boil from The Campout Cookbook
This shrimp boil was our favorite meal of summer—and it happened on a camping trip! Thanks to Marnie Hanel, Jen Stevenson, and...

Oven Roasted Tomatoes for Pasta or Polenta
You don't need to do much to a good tomato. A pinch of flaky salt (Maldon or Jacobsen are my favorites) and a drizzle of olive oil...

Pearl Couscous with Seasonal Vegetables
Looking for dinner ideas that use that assortment of veggies in your CSA box? I found this to be a good one, from Where Women Cook...

Grilled Eggplant Gyros
To salt or not to salt the eggplant? That is the question. Short on time the last time I made this, I decided to skip it and you know...

Quinoa Black Bean Burgers
It's hard to find a decent veggie burger recipe, but Kathryne Taylor of the blog Cookie + Kate is the go-to gal. Her Sweet Potato and...

Via’s Rice (Spanish Rice)
Spanish Rice, Mexican Rice, Arroz Rojo, Red Rice, no matter what you call it, cooking rice with a little tomato and onion makes it extra...