Warm Fava Bean Salad with Tamarind Dressing Dried fava beans (aka ful or fool) come in several shapes and sizes; the kind you want for…
Vegetarian Minestrone Homemade minestrone has got to be one of the best rainy day foods in the world. Living in Seattle we’ve got ample opportunity…
Vietnamese Vermicelli (Bun) with Ginger-Grapefruit Sauce Bun (pronounced, roughly, boon), when well made, is just about one of the greatest foods ever invented. Super-thin Vietnamese…
Veganized Southern-Style Collard Greens So my brother and sister-in-law were browsing their farmer’s market in Greensboro, North Carolina a few years ago when they spotted…
Cornbread with Jalapeno-Sorghum Butter Last weekend I was making a traditional Southern meal of collard greens, fried green tomatoes and red beans and rice, and…
Savory onion and aged gouda Dutch baby Eating Out Loud and I have riffed on Dutch Babies a couple of times now. This was my…
Mostarda of apricot and sweet onion Mostarda di frutta is a most unusual Italian condiment. It is made most famously in Cremona (and is sometimes…
Hatch chiles are a specialty of the Mesilla Valley area of New Mexico, where a huge festival celebrates the annual harvest and roasting season. In…
Potatoes, Chanterelles, Shallots in Red Wine Sauce I’d been ruminating on how I was going to use these heirloom Rose Finn fingerling potatoes from our…
I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. In the 1970s. Not gonna lie to you. At that time it was pretty much a gastronomic wasteland, except…