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inspired by Mexican street corn but definitely not the traditional dish this quick corn recipe takes advantage of the season’s sweet fresh corn. If your grilling have this on the cob or if it’s raining or buggy or you don’t like your corn on the cob try it in a pan- either way this sort […]
An easy creamy stove top macaroni and cheese studded with a healthy serving of spring greens that comes together in less than 15 minutes. Bowl optional. For a lighter slightly more grown up, but equally quick, take on peas and pasta you might want to try my summer peas and angel hair pasta This is not […]
A simple side, delicious with coconut curry seafood chowder or with any Asian inspired main course. This asparagus came from Mexico because by February buying local kale and collards has become repetitive, boring, blah. I’m ready for spring, for asparagus, strawberries, tulips. For a few days it seemed spring was just around the corner, short […]
Just in case you are feeling snack food deprived and/or all this Super Bowl hype has left you with an unquenchable craving for all things Buffalo then these are the sliders that you’re looking for. They are saucy but, surprisingly, not sloppy and easily adaptable to personal preference: less blue cheese, more hot sauce, whole […]
collard greens with fresh autumn apples, apple cider, and apple cider vinegar Up your luck in the new year by adding greens. If the only collards you’ve ever had have been thick cut and slow stewed it my come as a surprise that they are also delicious barely cooked or even raw, you don’t even […]
Persephone leaves the underworld with four pomegranate seeds in her belly. Seeds of winter. She can still taste the fruit, remember how she struggled to stop at just four, licked the bright juice from her fingers, tasted the red stain on her lips. But without fall there can be no spring, without bare branches there […]
Cauliflower Fried “Rice” A quick, delicious, gluten and grain-free stir fry using diced cauliflower instead of rice. Add egg and call it paleo. Add tofu and call it vegan. Add an extra swirl of siracha and call it spicy. Just don’t call it Sue. As someone allergic to cashews I have a healthy fear of […]
Sigh. It’s going to be a long hot summer here in the Pacific Northwest. Still June and the forecast is above ninety for the next week. The lawn is already august brown and I look forward to doing laundry because it takes me down into the deliciously cool basement. The kitchen, normally a spot of […]
Quick and delicious Individual Irish Soda breads slathered with chive butter. Made without eggs and kneaded in the food processor these rolls, adapted from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, are as quick as biscuits but as versatile as yeasted bread. Feeling Lucky: on finding four-leaf clovers For my fifth and sixth grade years we […]
Breakfast packed with fiber and good fruits in under ten minutes. Blueberries and vanilla make this feel sweeter than one teaspoon worth of sugar.
