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Category Archives: Vegan
Panzanella with Roasted Red Peppers & Grilled Eggplant with Basil-Garlic Yogurt Sauce
Between our garden, my Mystery Box from Mariquita Farm, and my inevitable (and beloved) trips to the farmer’s market, I had more vegetables than I knew what to do with this past week. Among them were some red bell peppers, … Continue reading
Sheep’s Milk Yogurt with Almond-Pistachio Olive Oil Granola
When I first moved to San Francisco, I lived in a very fun, tasty neighborhood about a block away from the corner of Haight and Ashbury nearby one of the San Francisco Boulangerie bakeries. I would always order some sort … Continue reading
The Secret to Bright Green Italian Basil Pesto
Pesto? Come on, you are thinking, everyone knows how to make pesto. Yes. I know. It was one of the first dishes I ever tried to make (aside from a botched 6-year-old effort at vegetable soup with water and … Continue reading
New Potatoes, Peas, and Peppercress Salad
We planted our peas in February and counted every milestone we could invent: First sprout poking through the ground. The number of peas shoots that made it past the onslaught of slugs and snails in the first two weeks. The … Continue reading
Homemade Cherry Preserves
I may have mentioned before that we really like cherries over here. The guys that I usually purchase cherries from at the Alemany Farmer’s market said that they will linger around only one or two more weeks at best. I … Continue reading
Focaccia to Dream About
There are a lot of focaccia recipes floating around out there and many of them are pretty good. Others, are not so great. Some are just glorified pizza doughs overladen with toppings and others are drenched in oil…vegetable oil! Yuck. … Continue reading
What to Make with Your Herb Garden: Lemon Verbena Green Tea and a Fava, Pea, Artichoke Salad with Parsley and Thyme
Alright, this post is a two-fer, food and drink. One of my favorite things about having a garden again is having fresh herbs. I believe for two bucks you can get three sprigs of organic cilantro at Trader Joe’s or … Continue reading
Food of love…Israeli Couscous with Carrots, Moroccan Olives, and Preserved Lemon
Last weekend we had a bridal shower for my sister. I had some help making the food and I was off the hook for drinks, but I a little problem. I had to transport food for about twenty-five people over … Continue reading
Homecoming: Garden Salad with (very) New Potatoes
We just returned from a very special trip to visit very family in Piemonte, Italy that just happened to be prefaced with a quick tour of Zürich and Basel and ended with a week on an island in Croatia. Though … Continue reading
Inept-but-Earnest-Cook Night: Seven Vegetable Moroccan Couscous in Fifteen Minutes
As I mentioned the other day, some variation of this couscous is my go-to dinner when I want to go from no plan to homemade dinner on the table in 15 minutes. This is installation three of “Guy’s Turn” or … Continue reading
La Cuoca Ciccia 