Red Curry Delicata Squash and Tofu Delicata squash is one of my favorite winter squash varieties. It is relatively easy to cut and peel, cooks…
Warm Fava Bean Salad with Tamarind Dressing Dried fava beans (aka ful or fool) come in several shapes and sizes; the kind you want for…
Vegetarian Minestrone Homemade minestrone has got to be one of the best rainy day foods in the world. Living in Seattle we've got ample opportunity…
Vietnamese Vermicelli (Bun) with Ginger-Grapefruit Sauce Bun (pronounced, roughly, boon), when well made, is just about one of the greatest foods ever invented. Super-thin Vietnamese…
Veganized Southern-Style Collard Greens So my brother and sister-in-law were browsing their farmer’s market in Greensboro, North Carolina a few years ago when they spotted…
Mostarda of apricot and sweet onion Mostarda di frutta is a most unusual Italian condiment. It is made most famously in Cremona (and is sometimes…
Chana Masala with Mushrooms Chana Masala (spicy chickpeas) is one of those ten dishes you will find at pretty much every Indian restaurant in America.…
French lentil salad with Latin-American flavors Lentil salad went through some bad years in the 80s and 90s, usually flaccid and overdressed, filled with canned…
Salad of Puntarelle, Tiny Potatoes and Teleme Sarina and I both fell in love from afar with these tiny little potatoes from Olsen Farms. We…
Grilled Eggplant with Fresh Arrabiata In the course of planning an Italian-oriented meal, it occurred to me that an arrabiata sauce has mostly the same…