Apartment Therapy: Vegetable

Good Eats: Little Gems Lettuce

My mystery box offered up several Little Gems lettuces last week, a most pleasant event indeed! We featured them here a few years back but they’re well worth revisiting. Little Gems look like tiny...

Living the DIY Wedding: The Food

I got married a week ago. Instead of the usual fears -commitment, weather, stepkids' sabotage - I spent the weeks leading up to the event wondering if I was capable of cooking a meal for 50 hungry peo...

Improvised Lunch: Asparagus-Bean Salad Over Arugula

We didn't make it to the store this weekend and had to scrounge a bit for something to eat at lunchtime yesterday. We started with a can of cannelloni beans from our pantry, rummaged through the frid...

Recipe: Raw Artichoke, Mushroom, and Parmesan Salad

When artichoke season begins in cold and damp March, we're eager to warm up with comforting braises and bakes. But now, at the tail end of the season, we're looking for light dishes that celebrate the...

Recipe: Asparagus Spread and Prosciutto on Buttered Toast

This recipe came about as a result of asparagus fatigue. We love asparagus, and local ones are everywhere right now, but there are only so many things to do with them — roast, blanch, chop up into...

Recipe: Stuffed Artichokes

Remember when we contemplated the first meal cooked in our new apartment? Well, this was it. A little off-the-beaten-path for us, but it's an old family recipe that we'd been wanting to make......

Recipe: Spring Lemon Risotto with Asparagus and Fiddlehead Ferns

After two weeks away from our kitchen, we returned last week to find the market positively brimming with spring vegetables. When we'd left there were only the first signs of ramps, but now there was ...

Recipe: Tofu Stir-Fry with Snow Peas and Mushrooms

For years, we've been trying to duplicate the kind of tofu we're served at Chinese restaurants. Finally, we think we're on the right track. The secret is dredging the chunks of cut tofu in cornstarch...

Recipe: Quick and Easy Black Bean Soup

When held up against the fresh, mouth-watering produce at farmer's markets, canned foods can definitely pale in comparison (to say the least). But they have their time and place too! This soup recipe...

Recipe: Vegetable and Mint Summer Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce

We told you we were eager to use mint in some fresh, healthy summer rolls, and it didn't take us long. Here they are! This was our first experience with rice paper wrappers, and they were surprisingl...

Weekend Cooking: Braised Radishes (Again) - This Time with Rice Vinegar and Mint

Mmmm....spring radishes. We liked the braised radishes that we made last week so much that we cooked them again last night. We made a couple improvements, though - this batch was crisper, lighter, mor...

Recipe: Spring Radishes Braised with Shallots and Vinegar

Oh - delicious! We had spring radishes in hand last night, as we showed you. They were all shades of pink, ruby and white - very pretty. We've been meaning to try braised radishes for a long time, and...

Recipe: Spring Greens Pesto

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Recipe: Cinnamon-Spiked Tomatoes

This is not a combination we would have thought of on our own. We recently enjoyed a cheese plate at a restaurant, where a hard goat cheese was paired with a tomato garnish. At first, we asked the ba...

Recipe: Pork Stir-Fry with Asparagus and Sugar Snap Peas

Stir-fries aren't usually the well-edited dishes you think about and shop for in advance. They are frequently renegade, use-up-what's-in-the-fridge meals, which is part of their charm. But not so with...

Recipe: Rosemary Roast Potatoes

You just can't get a much better flavor pairing than rosemary and potatoes. The pine-y rosemary perfumes the earthy potatoes just so. It's a classic combination that we never get tired of tasting.Thes...

San Francisco Farmer's Market Recipe: Kohlrabi Slaw

With winter on the way out, we've been trying to come up with creative ways to use up the remaining surplus of cold weather vegetables such as beets, carrots, kohlrabi, cabbage, and broccoli. One veg...

How to Prepare Cardoons

At the Alemany Farmer's Market right now we're seeing a lot of cardoons in season. Cardoons are closely related to - and taste very much like - artichokes. Why is this vegetable not well-known, then...

Recipe: Leeks Braised with Wine and Garlic

This time of winter we are looking for easy, delicious, yet not-too-heavy comfort food. Comfort food is often rich and heavy, but we think that these silky braised leeks are comforting yet light. ...

Recipe: Frisée Salad with Red Currants

Frisée means curly in French, and its tightly wound bitter leaves are crunchy, springy, and delicately bitter. They're also a delicious winter salad base with an unusual winter fruit......

Recipe: Buttery Salsify Puree with Horseradish

Here's a recipe to help you beat those winter vegetable blahs. Salsify has the texture of a potato with a haunting flavor reminiscent of artichokes or white asparagus. Some say that this thin root t...

Recipe: Herbed Skillet Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes! Their tender sweetness and smoky flavor are so welcome this time of year. Here's a fast, deliciously easy recipe for a weeknight supper. It's similar to our Sweet Potatoes and Carame...

Recipe: Israeli Couscous with Chard

Dinner last night - Trader Joe's Harvest Grain Blend, rainbow chard, and a little chicken broth. That's all it takes for this quick and easy dish. It's so healthy we don't even want to think about it ...

Snacking on Pimientos de Padron

Pim's already discovered the pimiento de padron. San Franciscans are hooked on the little pepper too. We're wondering if you're on to these too. Were we the last to know? We picked up a handful of ...

Virtual CSA Box: Our Zucchini Overlords Have Arrived

It's that time of year. You gratefully accept a few zucchini from your neighbor's ambitious garden. Then she comes over with a few more, and although you can't really do anything with them, you take t...

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