Side Dishes

Green Garlic and Mint Potato Salad - Recipe
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Green Garlic and Mint Potato Salad - Recipe

Green garlic is one of those wonderful farmer’s market ingredients. At least in my neck of the woods, you don’t often see it at grocery stores, but it is as at every market in the early summer months, where it overlaps …

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Maple-Roasted Shiitake Mushrooms - Recipe
Breakfast

Maple-Roasted Shiitake Mushrooms - Recipe

When I was a kid, I would see my uncle Irv mix together his breakfast plate full of waffles, eggs, bacon and syrup, taking bites of everything together, and I thought it was horrifying. The idea of mixing sweet, smoky, …

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Kinoko Gohan (Japanese Mushroom Rice) - Recipe
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Kinoko Gohan (Japanese Mushroom Rice) - Recipe

Kinoko Gohan is classic, soothing Japanese comfort food. It has strong associations as a fall dish, but the typical mushrooms used in it are mostly cultivated and therefore available year round. Of course if you have …

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Cooking Videos

Brown Butter Cornbread - Video Recipe

The brown butter cornbread recipe in my book is one I come back to over and over again, whenever a bowl of vegetarian chili or black bean soup is on the menu. The brown butter flavor somehow amplifies the taste of the …

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Poha (Flattened Rice) with Coconut and Cashews - Recipe
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Poha (Flattened Rice) with Coconut and Cashews - Recipe

Poha (Flattened Rice) with Coconut and Cashews Poha is simply rice that has been flattened. It is a popular food in India, used in a whole range of dishes. In fact, I’d been eating it for years on thalis without …

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