Archive for the 'vegetables' Category
Lemony Zucchini Carpaccio
September 8th, 2011by Caroline When Tony and I were first dating, we used to eat at a wonderfully low-key Italian place, Jackson Fillmore, with the most delicious zucchini carpaccio, light and fresh with parmesan, toasted almonds and parsley. We’ve tried to replicate it a number of times but never quite gotten it right. So when this recipe [...]
Fresh Corn Pancakes
August 24th, 2011by Caroline When my husband and I decided to get married, I told him I could imagine making a life in his native San Francisco as long as we spent one week every summer somewhere I wouldn’t need to wear a scarf. That means, happily, an August week in Northwest Connecticut, visiting my parents, and [...]
Mini-Bites, or more Salads-on-a-Stick
June 8th, 2011by Lisa The salad on a stick was such a hit with everyone, and so easy and portable, I’ve been brainstorming variations. And what better place to test the concept and recipes than a Memorial Day get together with Caroline and her family, and our friend Nicki Richesin & her family. Nicki has just edited [...]
Sushi Salad
May 27th, 2011by Caroline A pretty common weekend dinner for us is homemade sushi and lately I’ve purposefully prepped enough of the ingredients that I can make a sushi salad for lunch the next day. Our garden is producing a lot of arugula and mustard greens right now, so I picked a plateful, topped it with a [...]
Green Beans with Eggs & Herbs
May 26th, 2011By Lisa I came across this recipe in Food and Wine this month, and since we eat a lot of eggs over here, and green beans are generally a hit, I thought what could be bad? It’s basically a tumbled togther mix of eggs, green beans, and herbs. Then I realized the very premise of [...]
Salad on a Stick
May 23rd, 2011by Lisa With summer fair season coming up, and barbecues and neighborly dinners, I thought this would be a good time to share our latest favorite thing: salad on a stick. Another recipe straight out of last month’s Food and Wine, this one is endlessly adaptable, and it’s going to be a regular on our [...]
Transition Salad
April 13th, 2011by Caroline Continuing this week’s foraging theme, lunch the other day required a bit of refrigerator rummaging, since there were no good leftovers with which to construct a garbage salad. I wound up with a meal that tasted a bit like winter, a bit like spring, just right for this transitional season. I found some [...]
Foraged Salad
April 8th, 2011by Caroline For a while when I was a kid, my dad kept a couple burlap bags in the trunk of the car. He never knew when he might drive past a nice-looking patch of dandelions, or day lilies, or elderberries, and he wanted to be ready to gather them. It was the 70s, he [...]
CSA Season
March 16th, 2011by Caroline Our CSA* resumes today after its winter break, and I am unreasonably excited. It’s not like we don’t have access to excellent produce in the winter. We visit a Sunday farmer’s market just two blocks from home, so we can track the winter’s progress from pear to pomegranate. I chat with the egg [...]
Pan-Seared Tofu and Kale Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette
February 18th, 2011by Caroline I have to admit that a food article about cooking post-kids is speaking to me when I read, “Well, I used to actually cook…Now I just make food.” I might like to think I resist this cliché, but really, the days of poring over cookbooks to find new recipes, making spontaneous market trips [...]