It seems to me that there are two kinds of rice pudding in the world–the creamy, stovetop kind and the more dense, baked-in-the-oven kind. Both are delicious, old-fashioned foods. If you prefer the creamy, stovetop kind, this recipe is excellent and has never failed me (although I cut the sugar in half). This creamy, stovetop [...]
From now until March 3rd, you can watch this entire movie for free using this link. I highly recommend you take an hour of your time to watch this movie, starring some of my favorite people on the planet, Joel Salatin and Michael Pollen. It will inspire you to find and get to know your [...]
Virtually every culture on earth incorporates some kind of delicious fermented food into their cuisine–sauerkraut, kimchee, lacto-fermented pickles, cheese, beer, yogurt, sourdough, to name a few. Fermentation is magical and awesome. Fermenting food is of course a natural way to preserve food, but I’d also argue that humans possess an innate instinct to practice traditional [...]
“Nutcakes” sound like something a hobbit would pack for a journey, or Jemima Puddle Duck would serve with hot tea. Really what they are are pancakes, but made with rich, finely ground almond flour instead of flour. We have been making these for breakfast and find them to be much more filling, satisfying and less [...]
I had huge plans to write recipes every single day this summer. I always have a (crazy) idea that summer “break” will afford me all kinds of time that I don’t have during the school year. About three days in it dawns on me that I have the company of my children…all day long. In [...]
I know it seems strange to think of stews in the summertime, but if you live in some parts, like the San Francisco Bay Area, summer can be really chilly at times. Fortunately lamb marries perfectly with the vegetables that are taking over the garden right now–peppers, eggplant and tomatoes. The vegetables break down and [...]
I love old fashioned zucchini cake, but sadly the amount of sugar and oil in most of them pretty much negate any possible health effect one may get from the shards of green zucchini tucked in there. I reworked the standard recipe to make a much healthier zucchini muffin. This recipe is now almost [...]
I may have mentioned in a previous post that a few friends and I devised an evil scheme to have a really healthy summer. Basically, there is a group of people, including myself, that are pretty healthy but felt like we could stand to lose a few. We were talking about how hard it [...]
Apologies for my absence last week–I was in the mountains with the family at summer camp–making lanyards, catching up with friends, singing campfire songs, tie-dying shirts, hiking and all other manner of totally relaxing, wholesome family fun. For the one and only week of my entire year I did absolutely zero cooking. It was sad [...]
Succotash is a dish based on the Native American companion planting idea of “The Three Sisters”. By the time the earliest settlers arrived in North America, some native tribes were relying on the combination of corn, beans and squash in the garden. These “three sisters” help each other in the garden-the corn provides a pole [...]
We had a potato harvest at home this weekend, which turns out to be super fun for the kids. Digging for the potatoes is like playing pirates digging for buried treasure, so there was lots of squealing and whoops of excitement whenever a new potato was found. We dug up a bunch of fresh, beautiful [...]
The weather has suddenly turned ungodly hot here and a few days back a friend bought an ice cone machine to make icees for the kids. There was much excitement and anticipation and jumping and down and fetching of ice. The machine shaves the ice into little bits which the kids caught with a paper [...]
The first time I had Padrón peppers, I was not in Spain, but I was at the next-best place for all things Spanish, Bar Cesar. Maggie Pond is the chef there and in addition to being a totally nice, down-to-earth person and an amazing chef, she is an expert on Spanish food. She served us [...]
I am going to start writing a weekly piece about foods that people commonly buy pre-made, but are deceptively simple to make from scratch at home. There is an illusion of quick and easy convenience about some foods–salad dressings, pasta sauces, deli meat–but many of these items come loaded with sugar, flavorings, weird stabilizing agents, [...]
Remember when you were in your 20s and you often found yourself hung-over and you had the time to figure out the perfect food to cure your condition? You know, you would wake up around 9-10-ish and kind of wander around, scratching your head and wondering if you should go wait in line for a [...]
We had some left-over brown rice, so I made these pancakes from The Breakfast Book by Marion Cunningham. I was a little dubious about the recipe-it contains very little flour-but as it turns out, these are delicious, light and delicate. They are tender, but they don’t fall apart in the pan. They taste a lot [...]
