Not being from the South, I don’t think I ate a single black eyed pea until a few months ago. I’m not jumping-up-and-down excited about them, but they’re not bad, and since we have a couple bags of them to use up, I’ve been trying to figure out what [...]
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There’s something extraordinarily comforting about eating creamy soups when the weather gets cool. As a kid, I gravitated towards Campbell’s Cream of Asparagus with so many crushed Saltines in it that it basically solidified. These days I stay away from canned soups, but they’ve been replaced with something [...] I think the whole idea of having a mantra is a little cheesy. Although during the last few miles of a marathon — when feel like I could keel over and die at any second — I have a few key phrases I repeat to myself to keep going, life [...] Some vegetables are just crying out to be stuffed. That little groove in celery was clearly designed by some higher power with peanut butter in mind. I can’t look at mushrooms without thinking how much better they would be flipped upside down, stems removed, and filled with a [...] My jeans are telling me that it’s time to stop eating so much refined sugar, white flour, and red meat. And when they tell me things like that, I listen. I found a huge package of bean threads for ridiculously cheap at a market in San Francisco, and knew there would be many of these salads in my future. Tonight I found everything I needed to create this recipe already in my refrigerator, so this was easy to throw together. [...] Paella is a great one-dish meal that can be altered in myriad ways depending on what you have on hand and what is in season. Beginning with the components of broth, saffron, and short-grain rice, from there the possibilities are endless. For this variety, I included green beans, two colors [...] |
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