Apartment Therapy: Vegan

Recipe: Quinoa Salad with Grapes

We are big fans of quinoa, the "supergrain" (which is actually a seed) that's high in protein, iron, and fiber. It has a great fluffy texture and nutty taste, and cooks so quickly that we turn to it ...

Vegan Vanilla Coconut Ice Cream
Best Lick! 2008 Ice Cream Contest Entry #26

Original Ice Cream Flavor: Vegan Vanilla Coconut Ice Cream Ice Cream Chef: Anali of Anali's First Amendment What inspired this recipe? My boyfriend has to limit his dairy intake, but he loves ice cr...

Recipe: Sesame Cucumber Salad

I have a cucumber problem: suddenly I have armfuls of giant, prickly cukes in my garden. They're called Suyo Long Cucumbers and most gardeners would say there's not a lot to do with such a large frui...

Recipe: Barely Cooked String Beans

The beans I planted this year in the garden were not doing so well, given the bunnies on parade. With a few rounds of the staple gun and some poultry wire, we seem to have brought things under contro...

Recipe: Fresh Shell Bean and Sage Spread

Earlier this week, we shared pictures of fresh shell beans at the farmers' market. Rattlesnake beans in particular caught our eye with their colorful, twisty pods. We brought some home, shelled them, ...

Recipe: Baked Summer Squash

Last week I got to spend time a farm where a friend has a CSA share out on Long Island. Summer squash was in abundance and I came home with an armful. We were grilling that night and I came this clo...

Roasted Apricot Ice Cream with Almond Praline Ripple
Best Lick! 2008 Ice Cream Contest Entry #1

Ice Cream Chef: Hannah of My Sweet Vegan & Bittersweet Blog What inspired this recipe? Apricots are at their peak right now, and I just couldn't resist loading up on the golden stone fruits while...

Recipe: The Perfect Tomato Salad

It's not really fair to suggest something so definitive as The Perfect Tomato Salad. When it comes to vegetables, especially, so much of perfect has to do with the vegetable itself. But I had perfec...

Recipe: Sherry Vinaigrette

We've been on a Sherry kick lately, what with Mary's glowing defense of this currently unfashionable wine, and our own dinner and wine pairing party. We were left with a half bottle of excellent Sherr...

From The Email: Two Fresh Dishes for Spring

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on May 8th. To sign up for our weekly email sign up in the column to the left or click here. If you're trying to eat as much from a...

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...

Ingredient Spotlight: Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti squash is a cylinder-shaped squash that ranges in color from pale yellow to canary yellow. Do you know why it's called spaghetti squash?...

Recipe: Sunflower Date Cookies

While perusing one of our favorite stands at the Hollywood Farmers' Market last weekend, we glanced at their collection of customer-submitted recipes for new ideas. A recipe for sunflower date cookies...

Recipe: Guacamole

With the weather turning warmer, we find ourselves turning to lighter meals and nibbles. Healthy dips and spreads such as muhammara are finding their way onto our plates more often in recent weeks. ...

Recipe: Rice and Mixed Greens Salad with Dates, Cashews, and Chickpeas

This was a tough recipe to name. There's a lot going on in this salad. To be fair — and we're not sure how we feel about admitting this — we could have named it the "Top Chef-Inspired Salad," si...

Recipe Recommendation: Marinated Mango

Living in California, we're always surrounded by mangoes. We love eating them plain and sucking on the pits, or we like to sprinkle them with a little chili pepper Latin American-style. Packed with ...

Recipe: Basic Tomato Sauce (with Optional Zing!)

For the sauce-hungry crowd, here is a basic tomato sauce, with some lemony and spicy elements for adding an optional zing. It's easy, quick, and isn't a boring old sauce. Basic sauces were one of th...

Italian Template Recipe: Pasta, Meat, Greens and Cheese

We've been talking about cooking without recipes a lot lately. We're exploring flavors from world cuisines and ingredients that play well together. Another way to approach cooking instinctively is t...

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: 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: Orange, Olive, and Fennel Salad

We've posted a recipe for Orange and Fennel Salad before now, but that was before we had a proper mandoline! When we saw this recipe for fennel salad in Rebecca Gray's book American Artisanal we just ...

Recipe: Spring Leek and Lemon Soup

In with spring and out with winter - but don't let go of your winter citrus just yet. This soup bridges the divide between fresh spring produce and the zip of winter citrus like oranges, lemons, and g...

Breakfast for Lunch: Steel-Cut Oats with Dates, Coconut, Cinnamon and Pecans

Do you ever eat breakfast for lunch? Today we wanted a bowlful of those pearly steel-cut oats, hot and fragrant. Here are the other things we threw in... ...

Recipe: Saffron Rice with Peas and Cashews

Rice is a staple of many diets across the world. It's endlessly flexible and variable; it can be a dessert, a side dish, a main dish. As good as plain white rice can be, we love to dress up our rice j...

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