It’s July in Miami, and the temperatures are crazy-hot pretty much everywhere. Cool things down with Spain’s summer classic, Ajo Blanco. It translates literally as white garlic, but don’t panic, the garlic flavor is mild in this chilled soup, and the texture is lush and velvety, thanks to almonds and old bread. Ajo Blanco, aka…
Sexy Summer Salads and The Chef’s Garden
Green, garlicky ramps, luscious, earthy morels, and delicate, herbaceous fiddlehead ferns sing of spring. But Miami produce they ain’t. This goodness comes from The Chef’s Garden, one of three fabulous sponsors of this Wednesday’s Sexy Summer Salads class with Chef Taffy Elrod and me. Photo by Yossey Arefi and Michelle Demuth-Bibb Chef Elrod and…
Roasted Beet Salad with Chili-Lime Vinaigrette
Join Chef Taffy Elrod and me next Wednesday, June 30 for our class, Sexy Summer Salads. Because life — and salad — is about more than lettuce. To join us for this live event, be sure to grab your virtual seat by signing up at http://bit.ly/sexysummersalad.
Quinoa Salad with Mango, Cashews, and Mint
Celebrate summer and mango season with this flavorful Quinoa Salad with Mangoes, Cashews, and Mint. It is suddenly, emphatically, mango season in Miami. The trees are full of heavy, ripe, orange fruit hanging from long stems, like possums swinging by their tails (another delightful South Florida phenomenon). In mango season, it’s almost as though you…
Pantescan Pasta With Capers, Olives and Tomatoes
As we wind up International Mediterranean Diet Month, let’s see it out with a big, sexy bang. Pantescan Pasta with Capers, Olives and Tomatoes is a delicious and primal dish. The Pantescan fruits all come together with Sicilian cauliflower in a dish worthy of International Mediterranean Diet Month. Serve with a sexy, brash Sicilian vino…
Middle Eastern Eggplant Salad
Join Oldways and me this Thursday, May 13, 2021, at 2 pm for an Instagram Live as I put a plant-based spin on Mediterranean Diet Month. Living the Mediterranean Life Originally posted for Huffington Post on 05/08/2017 We’re already a week into International Mediterranean Diet Month, and I’ve got some activities lined up for you: Hike…
Reading and Recipe at Chatham Public Library
Please join me this Saturday May 8, 3:30pm ET. I’m excited to be offering a Feeding the Hungry Ghost reading and recipe, courtesy of our friends at Chatham Public Library. It’s free and open to the public. Register here. I’d love to see you (virtually, anyway). Cook along with me! I’ll be demoing this…
In the Moment Grapefruit and Fennel Salad
Walnuts and arugula add crunch and a spicy bite to this easy Grapefruit and Fennel Salad. Citrus Paradisi — doesn’t it sound romantic? It’s the Latin name for grapefruit. And honey, it’s time to get in on paradise while the getting’s good. Grapefruit season’s coming to an end. We’ve become used to eating according to…
Vegan Harira for Ramadan
Vegan Harira is made with nourishing ingredients making it the perfect soup for breaking a fast. Ramadan begins tonight at sundown. It’s strangely early this year, but as ever, it’s 30 days of reflection and prayer, of fasting from dawn to dusk, of returning to yourself and your family, a time to pledge your faith…
Three Lowcountry Women — Preserving History and Making it
Among my culinary crushes, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor stands tall. She stood tall in real life, too. She was as statuesque and extroverted as I am short and nervous. We met in the pages of her 1970 cookbook/memoir, Vibration Cooking or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. I’d never heard of Geechee before, and like the…
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