Roasting vegetables is best in any season because you can leave the oven to do the job. Meanwhile you have the option to remove yourself from any potential heat…
Charmoula is most famous as a marinade for fish or a sauce for vegetables. It’s the foundation for many Moroccan and North-African fish dishes. Paula Wolfert explains the use…
This dish reminds me of the old days when our busy schedule called for frequent Chinese takeouts. Good or bad, those were the days when decent home-cooked meals fell…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Gluten free/ Toss/ year round
Cauliflower Tabbouleh | Everyday Dorie
Dorie calls the cauliflower tabbouleh a time-honored salad moving into the 21st century. I can’t agree more since cauliflower has become so popular and indispensable in a vegetarian diet…
The many uses of cauliflower continue to surprise me. I put cauliflower in pizza, pasta and salad. There are the easy choices of roasting and steaming. What about roasting…
What does a bread baker do with all the time on her hands amid the lockdown? Well, my focus has been to bake breads that require more time than…
Mark Bittman/ Pantry essentials/ pasta/ Roast/ scalable/ Simmer
Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower | Veggies Forward
My new year resolution is to continue the healthy trend of a plant-based plan. The minimalist approach of pasta with cauliflower is originally derived from a Marcella Hazan recipe.…
convection steam/ easy everyday/ my favorites/ Roast/ year round
Roasted Whole Cauliflower | Green Tahini Sauce
I am a roasted-vegetables die-hard fan — for good reasons. Roasting a whole head of cauliflower takes time. Say about one to two hours in the oven, although very…
When you can get the best ingredients, you are half way to a wonderful dish. It’s that simple. In the summer, there are no better places to source…
I like cauliflower. I like it even more when the price drops to less than $2 for a head at the local market. My go-to recipe is a whole-roasted…
easy everyday/ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall/ Salad/ Side/ summer/ Toss
Riced Cauliflower with Peanuts and Cilantro | In the Raw #IHCC
There are many ways to transform and disguise veggies. You can spiralize zucchini and make veggie noodles. Have you heard about “ricing” cauliflower? What looks like rice on the…
I learned that Yotam Ottolenghi’s upcoming book is going to be about desserts. Among all the delectable Ottolenghi’s recipes I’ve made, there are quite a long list of them,…
How do you put together a colorful plate of food? Here is a simple solution: start with the most vibrant ingredients you can find and treat them minimally. A…
convection steam/ my favorites/ Roast/ Savory/ Vegetable
Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Parsley Sauce in a Convection Steam Oven
This whole-roasted cauliflower dish has been in the making for quite a while. I first tasted it in a restaurant in D.C. and have been trying to replicate…
Cauliflower is like a blank canvas to a painter. It is not the most exciting vegetable. In Britain, cauliflower is mostly dressed in a cream sauce. Sicilians smother it…
I’ve always been a fan of cauliflower since childhood. Over the years, I’ve found recipes to dress up this plain vegetable or transform it into something quite different. Among…
“Poke-ay” conjures up the image of enjoying a bowl of it in the open air by the ocean in Hawaii wearing flip-flops. The polarity between the real and the…
This recipe is adapted so that you don’t need a tagine vessel to make a Moroccan-style fish stew — with tomatoes, olives and preserved lemon. In fact, any shallow…
Brandade is traditionally a blend of creamy mashed potatoes and salted cod. Salted cod needs to be soaked over several hours or days before you can start cooking 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…
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…
Blanch/ Dairy free/ easy everyday/ Gluten free/ Low fat/ my favorites/ Roast/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Roasted Spring Vegetables with Tahini Sauce | Ottolenghi
The roasted spring vegetables is a version of Ottolenghi’s whole roasted cauliflower with tahini sauce inspired by the multi-color cauliflowers I’ve found lately in the market. I know —…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Pantry essentials/ pasta/ Sauté
Pasta with Cabbage and Winter Squash | Everyday Dorie
“Some dishes just pop into your head while you’re fretting that there’s nothing in the house for dinner,” quoting Dorie Greenspan’s in Everyday Dorie. We all have those moments.…
Dorie has perhaps changed the way I see pork tenderloin as “the cook’s best friend.” The proof is in this Everyday Dorie’s recipe. To start, the pork tenderloin is…
Fry/ Gluten free/ Roast/ summer/ Toss/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Roasted Sweet Potatoes & Fresh Figs | Jerusalem
I have been waiting for the seasonal fresh figs to arrive so I can make this dish. Roasted sweet potatoes and fresh figs, combined with chile, green onions and…