Apples are, by far, my favorite fruit. The sheer variety, coupled with the tart crisp of a Granny Apple or an Arkansas Black is enough to make anyone fall in love. This autumn, my apple of choice was the Honeycrisp. In cider, in salads; if there ever was a Honeycrisp in sight, it would be…
Some months ago, I learned how to make coulis. We learned with tomatoes, and I love-love-loved the sauce. I was eating it by the spoonful. Some months later, I find myself craving that sauce. I was craving red peppers. And I felt like setting things on fire.
“I’m craving Chinese,” I thought to myself in Whole Foods. Wandering the aisles, I came upon the Asian section. Something caught my eye:
This recipe is so simple that I don’t even really think it’s a ragout, it’s just so light and filling that I don’t know what else to name it. Grilled squash, grilled zucchini and grilled mushrooms stewed in simple tomato sauce, spiked with red chili pepper and oregano. Poured on top of a big bowl…
October 22-24: What a weekend. No, really. More like, “what a perfect weekend”. I got out of New York, went to a new city, made new friends, hung out with old friends, checked out new places, got into a pillow fight. I also spoke at the 2010 FAAN Teen Summit. What an experience. Fire-eating motivational…
Cold. It is gettingcoldoutside, and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Preemptively, I purchased a box of cocoa. Not any of that Swiss Miss. Oh, no: beautiful cocoa. Straight up, organic, from Whole Foods, whole bit. Intended for hot cocoa. But it was vegan hot cocoa mix, so, whatever. Anyways, it took me…
Do you know what you can do with a can of pumpkin? A lot. A whole lot. I still ended up making ice cream after I did this one. I created the sauce with puree, soy-free soy sauce, sunflower seed butter, curry powder, cinnamon, coconut milk and a little sauteed scallion. In went chicken, and…
Baking binges are sort of my thing. I get bored and have a lot of vanilla extract laying around, so I whip up seasonal sweet. This one was born out of a fit of insomnia, plus I needed something to eat on the bus to Baltimore—more on that later. But, yeah. Pumpkin, apple-cured dried cranberries,…
You know what culinary school does? Besides making you wear a hideous outfit for class and chop veggies until your fingers fall off. Besides teaching you how to cook. Culinary school teaches you to appreciate the effort that goes into food we take for granted. Like, that salsa you’re eating right now? It wasn’t just…
For months now, I had been hearing about this new vegan bakery. Boomtown. They were in my neighborhood, and they were good. Well. Little Miss Dorky here just finished her first week there as their new intern, and I cannot tell a lie: it rules. The Bondaroff sisters are hilarious, talented, pretty ladies who can…