Easy roast chicken, using the most minimal of ingredients and techniques, has found its way into our kitchen more than once in the past month. When time is limited, as it has been for our family lately, nourishing foods become ever more important, and while we strive our best to eat well and to celebrate the bounty [...]
A Recipe: Shrimp Salad with Dill Mayonnaise
June 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Shrimp Salad has become one of our favorite treats this summer. The sweet shrimp combine beautifully with the bright flavors of lemon, dill and the creaminess of a good homemade mayonnaise. It easy to bring on picnics, to concerts in the park or to serve as a light lunch or supper. Most importantly, however, is [...]
A Recipe: Preserved Lemon & Mint Allioli
June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Allioli. Allioli. Allioli. I love how the vowels and lulling Ls roll off the tongue – softly and whimsically – almost like a child’s nonsense word. all-ee-oh-lee. It’s a melodic sound. Allioli is a Catalan version of classic aioli, and it differs fundamentally from Provençal aiolis in that it is made without egg yolk – offering just a combination of good quality olive oil, fragrant garlic and unrefined sea salt.
Recipe: Spiced Kombucha Vinaigrette
April 22, 2010 By 17 Comments
Kombucha vinaigrette, may seem like an unusual take on the classic combination of olive oil and balsamic or red wine vinegar, but, when complemented by the unique flavors of clove and allspice it can become a nourishing, if unique dressing for any salad. I find it pairs particularly well with the sweetness of beets, apples, pears and nuts. Reminiscent of apple cider vinegar in combination with club soda, kombucha offers a unique flavor that is growing in popularity as more and more natural foods enthusiasts learn to cherish the beverage – a sweetened tea that undergoes a unique fermentation process through the use of a mother or symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast.
Recipe: Olive Oil Ice Cream with Blood Oranges
April 6, 2010 By 17 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 [...]
Home-cured Olives: Moroccan Style
November 9, 2009 By 18 Comments
Home-cured olives – seasoned with chilies, lemon and North African spices – have finally made their way into our kitchen, and happily so. Not too long ago, we received a beautiful box of freshly harvested, green-ripe barouni olives from Chaffin Family Orchards out of California. Since then we’ve patiently waited and waited [...]
Food Stamp Challenge Week #1: $68 Down
October 5, 2009 By 38 Comments
On Saturday morning, my son and I got dressed, packed my bag with a calculator, Seafood Watch’s Pocket Guide and the Environmental Working Group’s Wallet Guide to the Dirty Dozen and the Cleanest Fifteen, my cell phone for last minute customer service calls and a pocket book of cash. We headed thirty miles [...]
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