There must be a can of beans in the pantry. Then you don’t need much else to make a vegetarian main course or a hearty side for roast chicken…
Not sure whether the white haricot beans with clams is a soup or a stew. Probably the dish straddles the intersection of the two. Best of all, this clam…
brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fish/ Salad/ Toss
White Beans with Tuna & Pickled Onions | Everyday Dorie
There are no rules for a pantry-and-fridge salad, you start with what’s available. It’s an accessible, feel-good and versatile approach; I should be doing it more often. Foraging in…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Seafood
Portuguese-Style Sea Bass & Beans En Papillote | Everyday Dorie
We eat fish regularly and having more ways to cook fish is wonderful. First of all, en papillote is French for “in a pouch,” or sealing and baking the…
mezze (small plates)/ spring/ Toss/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Yogurty Butter Beans with Pistachio | Yotam Ottolenghi
This is the kind of mezze that welcomes spring when the days are getting longer and our appetite is getting lighter. Grab a can of butter beans and…
cheese/ easy everyday/ foundation recipe/ Low fat/ pasta/ Vegetable/ vegetarian/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Pesto Pasta with White Beans and Halloumi | Vegetarian
Pesto pasta with white beans and halloumi is a weekday vegetarian go-to pasta recipe that comes together in less than half an hour. Actually, it’s more like a suggestion…
The smoky black beans are a quick version of my favorite vegetarian chili. You might not be ready to make a big pot of chili, as you’d in the…
Dairy free/ easy everyday/ Gluten free/ Low fat/ Nigel Slater/ Pantry essentials/ Side/ Simmer
Squash, Butter beans and Thyme | Heirloom Beans
What Nigel Slater calls butter beans is the same as white lima beans in the US. Butter beans generally refer to the mature flat, white lima beans. The canned…
Dairy free/ Gluten free/ Low fat/ Pantry essentials/ Sauté/ Side/ Simmer
Garlic & Chili Baked Beans | Jamie Oliver
When the external conditions are grim, don’t despair, be prepared. Faced with a pandemic with an uncertain end point, let’s get our food supply in order. There is no…
Besides flour, it seems like beans of all kinds are in high demand during the lockdown phase. Beans will keep for a while in the pantry; I don’t mind…
If you tend to follow a recipe to a t for predictable results, especially in uncertain times, this one is for you. This recipe shows you how to cook…
Dairy free/ Gluten free/ Low fat/ Nigel Slater/ Pantry essentials/ Roast/ Side/ Steam
Lokanta Stew | Roasted Vegetables with Butter Beans
A lokanta, or “tradesmen’s restaurant,” is where you can find delicious home-cooked style food in Turkey. This dish is a healthy, vegan, roasted vegetable stew. Other than the butter…
Side/ Simmer/ summer/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Mixed Beans with Spices and Lovage in a Curry-like Sauce #Farmersmarket
Sugar snap peas, string beans and fava beans are in abundance at this time of the year. Fresh fava beans are not available except in a short few weeks…
These are haricots verts at their best, one of my favorite vegetables, served with garlic herbed butter. No snails though, as the name may suggest. David Lebovitz explains: “The…
A steak like this does not show up a lot in my kitchen and for good reasons. I follow a primarily plant-based diet. Kale and quinoa will make the…
Diana Henry is the monthly featured chef at IHCC. I got some tender and deep green kale from the farmers market the other day. This Diana Henry’s recipe, found…
mezze (small plates)/ Pantry essentials/ Simmer/ Vegetable/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Green Beans with Freekeh and variety of Tahini
Trio of tahini dips The theme of cooking farm-fresh produce continues in earnest. I like the idea of making a vegetable dish in an exclusively green palette, then dressing…
breakfast/ cheese/ Dorie Greenspan/ make ahead/ quick bread/ Side
Potato Flake Biscuits | Baking with Dorie
Do I really need potato flakes to make these biscuits? Well, potato flakes are something umfamiliar. I google and see that Bob’s Red Mill sells it in the quintessential,…
A pot of stew is so cozy and welcoming in the depth of winter. We had gochujang potato stew one night, a New York Times recipe, waiting for me…
Salad/ Sugar free/ summer/ Toss/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Summer Tomatoes with Mango Miso Dressing | Ottolenghi
When there are sun-kissed seasonal ingredients on hands, you have a wonderful dish made. In this case, the inspirations are the summer tomatoes in ruby red and mangoes in…
Making scones is among the first things I learned to bake. That must be at least decades past. While looking back over the old posts, it dawns on me…
Blanch/ Salad/ spring/ Toss/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Crispy Coconut, Asparagus and Green Bean Salad | Yotom Ottolenghi
We welcome spring and mother’s day with a crispy coconut, asparagus and green bean salad. The seasonal asparagus has no rival at this time of the year. I like…
Braise/ José Andrés/ mezze (small plates)/ Pantry essentials/ Spain
Tichi’s Garbanzo Stew | José Andrés
Delicious food is meant to be shared. That’s a simple and noble notion which José Andrés brings to the table, among other things. His humanitarian endeavor to solve the…
The slow accumulation of snow outside sparks the desire for warmth inside. The yin and the yang of life on chilly wintry days. A nourishing chicken soup is a…
easy everyday/ Grill/ summer/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Grilled Corn with Avocado Butter, Grilled Limes and Aleppo Chili
Jersey Fresh produce, homegrown sweet corn, tomatoes, squash, eggplant, green beans are bountiful and glorious. I have to find new ways to take advantage of the summer harvest, especially…