Plums in February
I know. It’s 100% not plum season. At least, not in Boston or anywhere else north of the equator. But in flipping through Roast Figs Sugar Snow (isn’t that just the best cookbook name?) I kept seeing all these tantalizing plum recipes. Like roast plums and figs in vodka with cardamom cream. And Russian cheese pancakes with … Read more
Greatist Collaboration: Feta and Lentil Tabbouleh
Today marks the first week of my new collaboration with Greatist, a fun, relatively new to the scene website focusing on all things health and fitness. A few weeks ago a classmate of mine from Andover (who is now the health editor at Greatist) contacted me with the idea of doing a regular guest feature … Read more
Adventures in Cheesemaking
In the spirit of daydreaming about farming and all things homemade, Trevor and I have been dabbling in cheesemaking recently. I’d love to say that it’s as simple as following a recipe and that we were pretty much ready to run out and buy a cow, but making cheese is hard. It’s more science than … Read more
Cookbook of the Month – Lucid Food
Here I am, January 31st, squeezing in the cookbook of the month post! It’s been a busy, but good month. It only seems appropriate that the cookbook of the month be Louisa Shafia’s “Lucid Food: Cooking for an Eco-Conscious Life,” as so many of the recipes from my cleanse (which pretty much consumed the first … Read more
Broccoli and Edamame Soup
I bet you thought that now that I’m done with my cleanse, I’d go straight back to posting recipes for things that included a lot of cheese, cream, flour, and or/chocolate. Well… that was the plan, it’s just that things don’t always go according to plan. This post was supposed to be about a chocolate … Read more
