I’m often asked about healthy fats – and how they can be appropriately used and while I’ve written on the subject of healthy fats and oils before, it never hurts to revisit the topic. In my kitchen, I use a wide variety of fats and oils – some of which I use exclusively for cooking while [...]
Recipe: Olive Oil Ice Cream with Blood Oranges
April 6, 2010 By 19 Comments
Olive oil ice cream with blood oranges, inspired by these olive oil recipes, recently found its way to our kitchen with our first bottles of fresh, raw milk for the year. In this recipe for olive oil ice cream, the inclusion of a good quality unrefined, extra virgin olive oil is essential. The flavor of [...]
Vote for Your Favorite Olive Oil Recipe
February 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Earlier this month, I asked you to submit your very best olive oil recipe to February’s Clean Your Plate Challenge. And we had some beautiful entries – each recipe offered something unique, so choosing finalists for the challenge proved difficult, but we settled on four finalists: Olive Oil Gelato, Olive Oil Ice Cream, One Quarter [...]
Clean Your Plate Recipe Challenge: Olive Oil
February 5, 2010 By 21 Comments
Olive oil. There is nothing quite like a fruity, complexly flavored olive oil – teeming with antioxidants, polyphenols and vitamin E. It’s sacred, mystical – weaving its way in and out of Mediterranean folklore and myth. Homer referred to it as “liquid gold,” and rightly so – it imparts a beauty to foods and supports [...]
Ghee: A Wholesome Fat
August 4, 2009 By 6 Comments
We don’t fear fat in my household. Indeed, olive oil, coconut oil, tallow and butter make regular appearances in our kitchen, but there’s an under-appreciated wholesome fat: ghee. Ghee is pure butterfat in its truest sense. Like many traditional foods, ghee is virtually ubiquitous in cultures that raised cattle for milk. [...]
Lovage Soup for Spring
Moroccan Preserved Lemons
campfire roast chicken with flowering onion and dill
Our Daily Bread: No-knead Sourdough
A Story of Recovery (and a Recipe for Grain-free Carrot Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting)
A Recipe for Beet Kvass: A Deeply Cleansing Tonic
What People Are Saying