Wherever rice is a staple, from China to India and all points in between, some form of congee is a beloved dish. Congee is simply rice that is cooked in copious amounts of water until it falls apart into porridge. It …
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Earlier this week I had the pleasure of cooking a five-course dinner at Cafe Flora as a benefit for City Fruit, a wonderful organization here in the Seattle area that harvests thousands of pounds of fruit from trees …
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This was absolutely an improvisation; I’d been traveling and had very few vegetables in the house on my return, but found a few waxy potatoes lying around along with a hunk of feta and a package of dill that was still …
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Tortas are Mexican sandwiches. They generally have a base of refried beans which can be topped with just about anything – in this case, scrambled eggs (or avocado, for a vegan version), a roasted poblano pepper, and a …
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There is a famous Thai dish known as Son-in-law Eggs. You’ll get the joke if you realize that eggs in Thai refer to the same part of the male anatomy as huevos in Spanish. To make Son-in-law Eggs, peeled hardboiled …
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Panna cotta is a classic Italian dessert, traditionally made from cream and milk set with gelatin, which isn’t vegetarian. The gelatin is what makes it different from flan (set with eggs) or pudding (set with starch and …
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