Lentils! Carrots! These two titanic plantbased ingredients team up in this chic-as-anything French lentil salad. Oft overlooked and undervalued, here they get the love they deserve, bound by a bold Dijon vinaigrette and accented with toasty walnuts. French lentil salad is one of my anytime go-tos, but this week especially. Lentils are legumes or…
Guava Cream Cheese Pastries
Count among Cuba’s gifts to Miami the pastelito. Literally little pastry, it’s a flaky envelope of puff pastry. You can, in theory, fill it with almost anything, but in Miami, the filling of choice is guava and cream cheese, the tropical equivalent of peanut butter and jelly. Puff pastry, vegan cream cheese and guava…
Let the Sky Rain Potatoes!
Potatoes are almost everybody’s favorite root vegetable. My husband loves them. I’m more of a cabbage person. And yet, we’re happily married. Potatoes and cabbage make a happy marriage, too, in the classic Celtic dish bubble and squeak. The nutty name comes from the sound of potatoes bubbling on the boil and then squeaking in…
Going to Seed (in a Good Way)
“Seeds are where it all begins,” as I write in Feeding the Hungry Ghost. “They’re superconcentrated sources of energy.” Are they ever. Incredible how something so tiny, smaller than a grain of rice, has the power to push up through the soil, emerge in daylight, and sprout. The basil, kale, mint, arugula, sorrel, peppers…
Sweet Potato Pie for Everyone
Creamy, comforting and above all sweet, sweet potato pie is more than dessert. Sweet potato pie is the taste of home, it’s its own love language, and a sweet symbol of Black pride, perfect for Martin Luther King Day. If your mother, auntie or gran makes it, you know it’s the best. But here’s the…
Cauliflower Pasta of a Different (Delicious) Kind
Starting the new year with plant power means more than green smoothies. Cozy up to 2023 with creamy, comforting cauliflower pasta. Cauliflower, once dismissed, overcooked, or both, is having its moment thanks to the keto craze and people’s carb phobia. It started with commercial cauliflower pizza crust. Cauli flatbread, cauli crackers, cauli pasta and more…
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