When I was a single girl, I used to make a delicious carrot salad all the time. It was just grated carrots, lime juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, and cilantro. A huge bowl of it with some crusty bread and a glass of white wine can make a pretty great dinner. But alas, Alex is a cilantro hater. When I ...
Easy Black Bean Tacos
For 30 years, Alex thought he didn't like Mexican food. Then we went to a wedding in Napa Valley and the morning after there was a fabulous homemade Mexican brunch, complete with guava mimosas and a woman pressing fresh tortillas. Alex was converted. He realized that he actually loved authentic ...
Jalapeño Acorn Squash with Cranberry Walnut Sauce
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. (Can you tell? It's only mid-October and I'm already talking about it.) For us, it's a big multi-family affair: my mother-in-law roasts a massive turkey (and always frets that "it just won't be enough." A few years ago, she actually made a roast beef too, just in ...
Cranberry Almond Smoothie
I have a running joke with a friend that we won't drink anything with calories if it's not caffeinated or alcoholic. Juice? Soda? Not worth it. Coffee? Martini? Yes, please. I've never been a big smoothie person, and I'm not really into our current collective obsession with jucing. Why would I waste ...
Spicy Vegan Eggplant Parmesan
When I was in my awkward early teen years, I used to go to this gym in my town called Body Techniques. This was in the mid-90's, and it showed. The walls were decorated with pink and teal heartbeat lines, like the kind you'd see on a heart rate monitor, and half the gym was devoted to a windowed ...
Creamy Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Indian Spices
Do you have any cooking roadblocks? Like procedures or ingredients that make you run in the other direction? I think pie crusts and yeast breads stop a lot of people in their tracks. It's understandable--they are time consuming and difficult to get right. You really have to have a "feel" for when ...
Maple Applesauce Cake
When I was in the fifth grade, we moved across town to a new house with several huge apple trees in the backyard. My parents simply let them grow wild, never spraying them or cutting them back, and every fall to this day they shower the yard with hundreds of lumpy, spotted, and sometimes wormy ...
Salad Granola
I realize this sounds totally crazy, but when I decided to overhaul my diet and go mostly vegan, one of the things I was most concerned about missing was salad. Hear me out. I knew I would still eat lots of lettuce, but I'd become quite accustomed to topping all my salads with a shower of ...
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