For this moong dal recipe, I use split mung beans. They’re tiny, golden and quick-cooking, and offering up a velvety, spoon-hugging dal.
The Love of Lentils, the Romance of Roots
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…
Homemade Benne Seed Olive Oil Crackers with Black-Eyed Pea Dip
Turmeric Chickpea Yogurt
Creamy, Comforting Belila
Two ancient foods of the Middle East come together in one creamy comforting bowl. It’s belila, a porridge of barley and dates that’ll up your breakfast game, get you revved about September, Whole Grains Month, and best of all, offer a sweet way to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah celebrations start…
Summer Fruit Kuchen
Start the season sweet with summer fruit kuchen. Kuchen, German for cake, belongs to the family of cobblers, slumps, grunts, buckles, betties, and all those homey fruit and batter desserts with unlovely names. Here, the batter’s on the bottom, ripe seasonal fruit goes on the top, and you pop the whole thing into the oven,…
Cheap Vegan Eats for Tough Times
First, the bad news — inflation’s hit a 40 year high. You don’t need me to tell you that — you and your wallet feel it every day. So here’s a little good news — my class Cheap Vegan Eats for Tough Times happens 6pm this Thursday. It’s free, virtual, open to the public, and…
Love After Love
Happy Valentine’s Day, the day we celebrate love. The capacity for love is baked right into us — it’s one of the pluses of being human. It’s easy to show love towards our sweeties, our spouses, our children, friends and animals. Often, though, we don’t think to love and celebrate ourselves. So I’m doing it….
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