I am a bit of a hothead. My husband is not. He keeps his cool. He even eats cool. He likes dill, a cooling herb which he fondly associates with his German grandmother and her weighs-a-ton potato kugel. Digestive and restorative, dill is a nice source of vitamin A, which you need to keep all…
Quinoa with Cashews, Mango and Mint
Magic mangoes, sexy salads, sweaty me — and so worth it. I had so much fun being part of Fairchild Garden’s Mango Festival, plus it gave me the opportunity to upgrade a mango recipe and give it a new tropical twist. My old quinoa and mango salad recipe is serviceable, but Mango Fest made me…
French Lentil Salad
Tender new asparagus, fresh artichokes as big as your head, sweet, sun-kissed apricots, hyssop plants and two puppies so young their eyes weren’t even opened — I wanted everything at the Thursday farmer’s market in Chinon. I wanted the wild poppies and lavender of June and the golden light of the French countryside, too. None…
Quinoa Salad With Mangoes, Cashews and Mint
Who Grows Our Food — the Fair Trade Quinoa Farmers of the Altiplano Originally posted for Huffington Post on 5/23/2016 Sweet, juicy, sexy, hot — It’s mango season in Miami. That the United Nations declared 2013 to be the International Year of Quinoa came as news to Rene Chila Mamani. To reach him, you must first…
Fireworks Black Bean and Mango Salad
The Revolution Will Not Come With Meal Kits Originally posted for Huffington Post on 7/4/2016 Today we celebrate Independence Day, that time a few hundred years ago when our forefathers broke with British tyrants. Their revolution took nerve and hard work, but it turned out okay. So okay, in fact, it’s time to try it again….
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Robin Asbell, Back by Popular Demand
Chef, cooking instructor, television personality and author of 11 cookbooks, Robin Asbell is a chronic overachiever. She is also a steadfast and magnificent friend. Robin brings both her warmth and her impressive organizational talents to her new book, Vegan Meal Prep. “Meal prep is all about making sure you have really useful, delicious prepared ingredients,…
Beet, Celery and Arugula Salad With Brazil Nuts
Salad Days Originally posted on 05/01/2017 for Huffington Post In Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra recalls “my salad days,” when she was young and exuberant. Bring your most exuberant self to May — 31 whole days devoted to salad. My maternal grandfather approached salad exuberantly. Freewheeling in life and in the kitchen, his idea of…
Spring Pea Puree
Give Peace (and Peas) a Chance Originally posted on 10/09/2017 for Huffington Post I may call this recipe spring pea puree, but it’s a perfect — and perfectly addictive — no-cook summer treat. Flawed as we are, our humanity is the coolest thing about us. It’s what allows us to love, to recognize and celebrate…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Marisa McClellan
I hate food waste, and so does Food in Jars blogger and cookbook author Marisa McClellan. You may know Marisa as your go-to guru for canning, pickling and preserving, but with her new book Food in Jars Kitchen, she takes the food out of the jar and puts it to work. “My goal with this…
All-Green Spring Slaw
Earth Day With Eco-Chef Bryant Terry Originally posted for Huffington Post on 4/20/2015 Earth Day just tastes better with self-described eco-chef Bryant Terry in the kitchen. “I started calling myself an eco-chef in 2002,” says the author of the cookbook Afro-Vegan. “I knew I wanted to commit to healthy food and sustainability issues, helping people to…
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