Fermented beets, dank and earthy and sour, number among my favorite ferments of vegetable. While I will always love the fetid odor of a true sauerkraut, the clean and salty Read More →
Onion Bisque with Frizzled Leeks & Rosemary
Onion bisque, a decidedly humble food, bridges the seasons of winter and spring in a beautiful marriage of overwintered onions and shallots with the new leeks of early Read More →
A Recipe: Ketchup for Real Food Lovers
Homemade ketchup – it sounds complicated as though you’d spend all day in the kitchen pounding your way through vats of tomatoes and slowly simmering them away in kettles on a Read More →
Bûche de Noël (Grain-free, Gluten-free Holiday Cake)
Bûche de Noël, an homage to the yule log in velvety rich chocolate form, is a welcome if not essential holiday treat in many homes. A thick and luscious layer of dense Read More →
A Recipe: Fermented Hot Chili Sauce
Fermented hot chili sauce – explosive with heat and teeming with food enzymes, beneficial bacteria, vitamin C and carotene. Traditionally, all hot chili sauces were prepared Read More →
A Recipe: Toasted Pumpkin Seeds with Chili and Lime
Toasting pumpkin seeds, that hallmark of Halloween, are a ritual in our home just as it is in many American homes. We head to the pumpkin patch, a pitiful display of twenty or Read More →
Tomato & Cucumber Salad
Tomato and cucumber salad, sparkling with the bright flavors of parsley, fresh lemon juice and a subdued and earthy olive oil, finds its way to our supper table several times a Read More →
Recipe: Homemade Orange Creamsicles
Creamsicles. Don't you love them? I mean, really now, how can you not adore them in all their icy, creamy glory. And when you taste homemade creamsicle, you'll never miss the Read More →
A Recipe: Homemade Horseradish
Homemade horseradish found its way to our table this week, and it's hot - painfully hot, pleasurably hot, perfectly hot. When fresh horseradish root appears at market, which is Read More →














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