Cauliflower is a favorite vegetable around here. My kids love it mashed, but I prefer it cooked Indian-style. Since I had some extra raw cauliflower this week, I decided to make an Indian-spiced frittata for breakfast.
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If you’re a home gardener, and you have planted more than one zucchini plant, you may find (as we did) that we have a small explosion of squashes. And though we like to grow these, they are not our favorite vegetables! So what does one
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A few weeks ago during our regular Sunday morning farmer’s market trip, B and I noticed a vendor selling hot sauce. B loves his hot sauce, but not just any hot sauce. It needs to be spicy and flavorful, something that many hot sauces fail
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Sometimes I don’t have the ingredients for something I really want to make, so I improvise. Last weekend was one of those times. I only had two sweet potatoes, one yellow and one orange. This is not enough to feed my kids, who inhale sweet
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I am a big fan of leftovers. When I was still working, I often packed leftovers for lunch. I can easily eat something I really like several days in a row without getting bored. And let’s face it, having at least one “leftover night” for
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I love cherries, and I eagerly await cherry season each year. Usually I buy a pound or two at the farmer’s market each week until the season is over, and I just eat them plain; they are too good and too expensive for me to do
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Do you ever have so many strawberries and they are at risk of going bad before you can eat them all? This rarely happens to us, but the other week I had bought our regular amount of strawberries and forgot that I had also bought
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It’s asparagus season! There is one vendor at one of the local farmer’s markets that sells the most delicious asparagus, and I wait all year to buy some. Then I buy it every week and eat so much of it that by the time the
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Ghee, a type of clarified butter, is a staple in Indian cooking. It is made by gently heating unsalted butter until the butterfat separates from the milk solids, which are then removed. The result is a rich, clear cooking fat that has a higher smoke
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I love pastrami. And I used to love pastrami sandwiches with lots of warm pastrami piled high on rye bread and slathered with spicy brown mustard. I grew up eating pastrami sandwiches on rye, and every now and then I want one. I rarely eat
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