A well-stocked cupboard is essential for turning out good meals in a crunch. Although I love to collect exotic dried beans at the farmers market, cooking them is usually a weekend activity. Thank goodness my mother-in-law, Cuban queen of beans, taught me that canned beans are a perfectly acceptable substitute … Read More
Egg white tostadas are only easy when you’re using ingredients that are readily available in your kitchen, which most likely occurs when you have remaining items from another meal, or if you live in Southwestern states and can’t help yourself at the farmer’s market when you see … Read More
Persimmon was more a color to me and not a food I prepared or paid attention until I received two persimmons from the farm. I am the first to admit that my family lives in a fresh food rut. Carrots, green beans, broccoli, strawberries, bananas and the like keep working … Read More
Let’s take a lesson out of the Mary Poppins handbook, only instead of spoonful we’ll go with sprinkle and instead of medicine we’ll go with cucumbers. A hint, and we mean a hint, of sugar in a salad or onbitter leafy greens will better balance the flavor for those young … Read More
It was been a tough week for kale. First Miss Sherri reveals that KPS (Kale Protective Services) needs to be alerted to wrest custody of the wilted bunch confined to her fridge. Next the NYT prints an essay on one man’s despise for both kale and the farm from which … Read More