I've been wanting to make bagel panzanella for several months. Now that the best summer tomatoes are here, it is time. Oh man, is it ti...

Shishito peppers are one of the highlights of late summer. While they look like a hot pepper, they are generally pretty sweet -- only about...

We've had the Momofuku cookbook for awhile, and I've never cooked anything from it until now. But I've been wanting to try thes...

Yay! It's summer squash season! Yes, that magical time of year in which suddenly everyone you know is trying to foist bagfuls of zucchi...

We've been eating a lot of pinto beans lately. This is a thing that happens when you buy a 5-lb bag of said pinto beans and cook huge b...

One thing you do when you're going out of town -- especially if an abundant CSA box is on the way -- is to eat down as much of the food...

Strawberry banana: perhaps not the most creative smoothie combination of all time. But hey! It's still tasty and easy, and it's cert...

Because there's no reason to stop eating soup just because it's May. I am doing nineteen things at once lately, so soup is actual...

I've been thinking about the combination of squash and beans for a few weeks now. Black beans and sweet potato are a natural match in t...

I have been putting raw sugar snap peas into pretty much everything I make lately. So good! So springy! So sweet and crunchy! If it's...

I've been meaning to make this salad for weeks, but life kept getting in the way. Well, both life and my own innate laziness, not to me...

Beans! They're the perfect food: cheap, delicious, versatile, easy, abundant, suitable for both vegetarian and vegan diets, and healthy...

You guys, we finally have a fully operational furnace. YAY. So now is the perfect time to talk about what I was drinking to combat the cr...

Is cucumber in season? No. Do I have one anyway? Yes. Our christmas and new year's morning traditions do not include the typical big ...

Our CSA is starting to wind down, but in the meantime, it's been showering us with winter squash. We have received no less than four ka...

Sometimes you just want a giant plate of pasta and vegetables. This time, I happened to have a package of capellini in the cupboard. Why ...

It's actually been starting to get grey and rainy on occasion here in otherwise super-sunny California. So, in honor of fall, let's...

So remember the fennel and orange pickle I made this summer? How about a fennel, lemon, and ginger pickle too? The only correct answer i...

We are just barely back from a whirlwind trip to a family wedding on the Florida panhandle. We flew into New Orleans, stayed for a day of b...

When I've canned tomato sauce in the past, I've always gone through the arduous slog of coring and skinning all the tomatoes before...