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Artichoke Pesto
My sister asked recently if I would post some artichoke recipes. Her timing was perfect, because the game plan was to have an epic week of artichokes featured right here. Yesterday, however, turned...
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Sweet Corn And Tomato Relish
This weekend we hosted a corn-themed, summer-inaugurating BBQ. Happily, the weather was perfectly warm and an impromptu dance party broke out on our rooftop deck. Sadly, I was not on the ball to get...
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Wedge Salad
Poor iceberg lettuce – it is the laughing stock of the lettuce family. The red-headed stepchild, the black sheep, the embarrassment. Once the mainstay of weeknight dinner salads across the nation,...
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Blackberry Jam!
After picking blackberries along the Selway river in the warm afternoon of a late Idaho summer, the only way I could describe the damage to my skin is that it looked like a pack of wild kittens had...
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Pumpkin Butter
There is probably no single food that captures the evocative core of fall as perfectly as pumpkin butter. It tastes like the month of October, Halloween and Thanksgiving all rolled into one, spicy and...
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Kale and Persimmon Salad
Growing up, we had a gorgeous persimmon tree in our backyard. It was a striking thing in fall, all those bright orange fruits hanging from spindly, nearly leafless branches. My mother would line...
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Homemade Gifts: Orange Marmalade
One of my favorite things about December in California is the proliferation of fresh oranges (and all citrus, really). I love them in their simplest form, eaten by hand in sections, but placing a...
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SALSA VERDE WITH AVOCADO
Tomatillos are such peculiar fruits. Between their brown husks, unpleasantly sticky surface and curious smell, they’re not exactly welcoming. I’m not sure if I’d consider them a prime candidate for...
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Beet Crudo with Chimichurri
Running a blog is kind of like owning a small business, isn’t it? Sometimes I forget this. Until, oh, I make a decision to change the permissions on my Flickr images and every single link to every...
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PRESERVED LEMONS
Preserved lemons seem so decidedly un-wintery. It’s all yellows and whites, undeniably bright and warm and golden. And yet, it’s a great end-of-winter ritual, to pack the last of the season’s Eureka...
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INNA JAM COLLABORATION + GIVEAWAY
I met Dafna about two years ago at the first Eat Retreat. She is the awesome force behind INNA Jam, which has received tons of accolades in the last couple of years, and with good reason. It’s...
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CAULIFLOWER STEAKS WITH HARISSA
In winters past, brussels sprouts were my go-to, the cruciferous vegetable that I could not get enough of and would eat multiple times a week until the season had been exhausted. This year it’s...
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GREEN ALMOND SALSA RUSTICA
There’s that palpable change happening again – a sense of building anticipation and elation as the weather warms. On Monday evening while driving to a friend’s, it struck me how odd and wonderful it...
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