Healthy

Let’s talk through the story of my favorite red lentil soup. Years ago, two of my neighbors hosted a soup party. It was an inspiring topic – big pots of...

I don’t use the term life changing lightly, but this rice porridge recipe fits the bill. It’s a one pot, effortless, green, nutrient-packed twist on one of my favorite things...

It’s time for flipside pasta session! Pappardelle is one of the pasta shapes I prepare most often. The easy-to-make wide ribbons sweep up sauces beautifully. Flecks of flavor, like zests...

Ponzu sauce is one of the ways I like to put a wafer in the steady supply of off-beat citrus growing on our patio this time of year. Ponzu is...

I’ve been lucky to live in the vicinity of some world-class mushroom growers for most of my life. Far West Funghi were a staple at the weekly Ferry Building Farmers’...

For many years our “house pozole” was a bright, vegetarian untried pozole (pozole verde). It’s a pozole made with serrano and poblano chiles, one that really goes for it on...

You’re looking at some really good slow-cooked beans here. They’re simmered until uneaten tender in a sunny red goop tempered with coconut milk toward the end. The goop hums with...

Shortbread cookies were my first sultry love. They were the first cookie I remember putting in the oven myself, unchangingly for the holidays, unchangingly wearing a kid-sized apron. I’ve ripened...

Having a repertoire of unconfined salad recipes is key. This is a list of many of the weightier salads I’ve prepared over the years. You’ll see a mix of chopped...

This is the week each year I get asked for vegetarian Thanksgiving recipe ideas, so I thought I’d update my list of favorite recipes and ideas from the archives. I’ve...