After nearly a year of daily posts, usually dashed off in the moments before midnight, I took a day off yesterday. It was for a good reason, one that many of you will remember or understand: after a few sleepless nights in a row, I fell asleep snuggling my one-year-old at 7 p.m. A rare […]
I have been having a bit of a love affair with this salad this summer.We met casually, in a friend’s back yard. I couldn’t stay away from it, and then I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Our friends came to the Dinner in White and I casually mentioned that they might bring this salad, you […]
It’s time for another hearty vegetable salad, although if you want this one last long enough to have for lunch the next day you had better at least double the recipe. It’s that good, and beautiful to boot. Raw kale salads are run-of-the-mill these days, but this salad hails from an era when even people […]
The only thing I like better than a one-pot meal is a one-pan meal, where instead of continual fussing over the stove you can just toss your pan in the oven and then go about your business (mostly) until dinner is served. This, as you may have guessed, is such a meal.
Have you entered this week’s cookbook giveaway yet? You have until Monday night to enter! In some circles the kale salad is probably passe already, but let’s just agree not to be so hip that we can’t enjoy a good thing, ok? I was briefly missing this summer’s Grilled Kale Salad with Ricotta and Plums, […]
When I moved to LA in the late ’90s, I was pretty sure of two things. First, that I was going to love graduate school. And second, that I–born and raised in Northern California–would hate living in LA. But life has that funny way of playing tricks on you sometimes, and of course the opposite […]
There are a lot of things I like about seasonal produce. A summer peach, a fall persimmon, a winter tangerine, the first stalk of rhubarb: each is most perfect in its own moment. But then there are times when I stick my fingers in my ears: “la la la la la, I’m not listening!” Like […]
In recent years I have prioritized raising babies over raising vegetables, and I haven’t spent much time in my garden. It’s every vegetable for itself out there, and several have risen to the occasion by growing, flowering, going to seed, and repeating, providing me with a an annual harvest. The crops that have been most […]
It’s a good day when I make two great salads. I couldn’t decide which to tell you about first, so I’m going in chronological order. My brother was passing through town today, and he and I had this one for lunch. I’ll tell you about the dinner one (kale! toasted almonds! the rest of that […]
I love green salads. A crisp, lemony romaine salad? Smoked salmon and tomatoes nestled into creamy, dill-dressed greens? An arugula salad with grilled potatoes and blue cheese? Yes, please. You know what I don’t love? The ubiquitous “garden salad” on restaurant menus. You know the one: wilted (if not decaying) “spring mix,” a few grated […]
