From the category archives:

vegetarian

Easy Eggplant Curry

October 3, 2011

Somehow, D and I were hosted for all of our Rosh Hashana meals. Five times, we found ourselves in good friends’ homes, ripping off pieces of round, honey-dunked challah, and savoring slices of apples picked as nearby as Maryland, and as far as a friend’s hometown of Omaha. Five times, we ate way more than [...]

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Mediterranean Lentil Salad

August 30, 2011

With the plentiful tomato salads and the peach cobblers of a good East Coast summer, lentils are often forgotten, relegated to the soups, stews, and curries of colder months. Such has been the case in our home. We’ve plowed through pint after pint of beautiful blackberries (making just a couple of these). We’ve eaten our [...]

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Green Beans with Pesto Vinaigrette

August 23, 2011

The humble green bean doesn’t get enough love, I’ve decided. We’re all so focused on bursting tomatoes and perfect peaches, sweet sweet corn and favas that take five times as long to peel as to eat (and are still totally worth it) and we totally ignore green beans. Unlike peaches, they don’t get super juicy. [...]

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Mushroom Turnovers

July 25, 2011

Most of you regulars probably know that in the summer months, D and I operate under a cold-oven policy. Our apartment, see, it loves the heat. It clings to every last morsel of July humidity like there’s some shortage (which, having spent the past week in town clinging to my vent, I can say with [...]

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Zucchini and Snap Peas with Sesame Oil

June 29, 2011

In some sense, it’s hard to come up with anything insightful to say about a dish containing four ingredients, one of which is salt and the other three of which are in this post’s title. On the other hand, one taste had me going on and on about how simple, how delicious, it all was. [...]

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Bulgur with Asparagus and Preserved Lemon Dressing

May 12, 2011

This is the latest my Weekday Lunch series, where I share recipes suited to home or office. [Sheepishly:] Remember me? Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted something fresh. I’ve been too busy at work to cook, and unless y’all wanted to read about the take-out pad thai I ate for dinner all of [...]

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Simplest Asparagus with Fresh Peas

May 4, 2011

From the archives, just in time for my favorite vegetable to hit the market. Enjoy! The markets are back open, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and I can almost forgive the swarms of tourists and the row of port-o-potties that totally block the view along the tidal basin, because spring has sprung! Thrills. [...]

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Marcella Hazan’s Pasta with Eggplant Sauce

December 26, 2010

For most of you, this weekend was chock full of great food. I may not have had Christmas dinner, but I had a southern feast of fried chicken, pulled smoked beef, and collards that rivals the best Chinese takeout of my storied Jewish-Christmas past. Still, as I think back on the past couple weeks of [...]