A wilted spinach salad, simple and nourishing, offers an excellent way to incorporate fresh winter greens onto your supper table during the long, dark days of winter when hardy spinach is plentiful. Heating the spinach very slightly, as in this wilted spinach salad recipe requires, provides a dual purpose: not only does it make the [...]
Five Winter Greens You Don’t Want to Miss
December 28, 2009 By 14 Comments
Winter greens, teeming with micronutrients, nourish my family during the darkest days of the season when the fields offer little else but stored apples and pumpkin. As days grow shorter, spinach, Swiss chard and other winter greens slowly replace the tender mesclun lettuces of spring and summer before the cycle begins anew. At the height [...]
Spinach, Caramelized Onion and Chevre Quiche with Potato Crust
May 30, 2009 By 13 Comments
Last week, we served this quiche for brunch. Full of fresh spinach and dotted with chèvre, this quiche is grain-free and perfect served at breakfast, or with a salad for lunch. Spinach is rich vitamin K, folate, beta carotene and manganese. In lieu of a flour-based crust, this quich incorporates a crust [...]
Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: Harvest Supper & Benefit
March 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In the heart of ski country, spring replaces late winter slowly–so slowly that when most gardeners around the country are celebrating the season with the first shoots of asparagus or tender salad turnips or sweet peas, we’re still struggling under several feet of hard-pack, glacial mounds of snow. It is a barren and desolate [...]
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