Fall Recipes
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Fall | Ingredients | Produce | Seasonal
Celebrating Seasonality- Fall Edition
Seasonality Matters When you walk through a farmers’ market in September, October and November, the colors tell you everything you need to know: glossy purple eggplants, crisp red and yellow apples, orange winter squash in every shape, green late season zucchini, hearty, deeply colored greens, and red beets. How Choose Zucchini and Other Summer Squash…
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Cooking Basics | Fall | Ingredients | Nuts | Snacks | Techniques
Toasted, Peeled Walnuts
Toasting nuts is a lovely way to deepen their flavor and firm their texture. They don’t actually become crispy, but they develop a firmer texture. After they are toasted, the skins become loose and you can rub them off in a towel. The tannins, which are bitter, are located under the skins. So, when you rub…
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Cooking Basics | Fall | Ingredients | Produce | Sides | Techniques | Vegan | Winter
Roasted Root Vegetables
Roasted root vegetables are so simple to prepare. They add a deep, earthy heartiness to a meal. The vegetables above graced our Thanksgiving table. I recommend them as a satisfying side for roasted meats, such as turkey, ham, or beef. Our vegetarians guests found them filling and comforting, too.
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Thanksgiving Recipes
As you might imagine, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Here is a selection of my recipes that will complement any Thanksgiving table. Just click on the links to go to the relevant recipes on the blog.
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Zucchini Fritters
Zucchini and other summer squash are very prolific. Therefore, one can never have too many delicious, quick recipes for them. This one is a family favorite. I’ve found that even finicky kids and hesitant adults are willing to try these tasty zucchini fritters; and unsurprisingly to me, they always love them.
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Cooking Basics | Fall | Garden | Ingredients | Produce | Summer | Techniques
How to Choose Zucchini and Other Summer Squash
The first thing you need to know when choosing zucchini, or any other summer squash, is to look for the smallest ones; they will be the sweetest and most tender. In the photo above, there are yellow patty pans, dark green zucchini, and striped zucchini. Note that I have large and small examples of each…
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Diet | Fall | Gluten Free | Ingredients | Meals & Courses | Produce | Salad | Vegan
Radish and Fennel Salad with Mint
Food is memory. This simple salad stirs memories that stretch through my life. Common red radishes were a favorite of my mother’s and thus an element of my childhood. I often came home from school to find my mother, in from gardening, standing at the kitchen sink eating radishes. Fennel is a vegetable I first…
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Fall | Ingredients | Meals & Courses | Produce | Soup | Winter
Pumpkin Soup
Fall is here and I find myself making a lot of orange food. Pumpkin soup is simple to make, satisfying, and comforting. You could use any hard squash for this recipe, like butternut, dumpling, delicate, acorn, or kabocha. What distinguishes pumpkin from other hard squash is its delicate flavor. This is a squash soup that even…
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Cooking Basics | Diet | Fall | Ingredients | Meals & Courses | Produce | Seasonal | Sides | Techniques | Vegan
Simple Baked Winter Squash
This one is for Ronda. Nothing could be simpler than this recipe for baked winter squash. I used carnival, also called dumpling squash recently. (It’s the yellow and green squash on the upper left corner in the photo above.) I did so because the size of the squash was perfect for the amount of puree…
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Cooking Basics | Fall | Ingredients | Meals & Courses | Produce | Snacks | Summer | Techniques
Applesauce
What to do with all of the apples I collected for the photo in my last post? Applesauce. Applesauce is easy to make, and your efforts will be deliciously rewarded. It’s really worth the effort, and it’s a great dish to do with young children. Kids love applesauce, and eating the applesauce that they’ve helped…
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Cooking Basics | Fall | Ingredients | Produce | Techniques
Apples for Baking
I’m not very focused on baking, so when I want to bake something with apples I find myself in a quandary, as I don’t know which are the best for baking. In my experience, some apples are reduced to mush by the baking process. Others hold up but don’t taste great. Then there are those…
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Appetizer | Fall | Ingredients | Meals & Courses | Produce | Summer
Fresh Figs with Proscuitto
The first time I ever saw, touched, and tasted a fresh fig was a revelation. My knowledge of figs until then was mostly confined to Fig Newtons. I didn’t even know what a fresh fig looked like until I saw it at a health food store in Santa Cruz, CA in the late 70s. The…
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Appetizer | Diet | Fall | Ingredients | Meals & Courses | Produce | Sides | Summer | Vegan
Fresh, Simple Zucchini with Mint
A gardener friend once said that if she were ever a castaway on a deserted island she would want to have a squash seed with her. One seed and she could grow a large vine and plenty of food! If you’ve ever grown zucchini in your garden you know what she meant. A healthy zucchini vine…
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Diet | Fall | Ingredients | Meals & Courses | Nuts | Produce | Salad | Spring | Vegan
Mache, Butter Lettuce, Fennel, & Walnuts with Lemon Walnut Vinaigrette
This is a lovely fall/winter salad to enjoy when the air turns chilly and the fall walnut harvest has arrived in the market. I crave it when the air turns cool and make it over and over throughout the winter months. Mache, also known as lamb’s lettuce or corn salad, is a small, soft, silken…
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Condiments, Dips & Sauces | Diet | Fall | Holiday, Occasion, Entertaining | Ingredients | Meals & Courses | Produce | Seasonal | Vegan
Easy Cranberry Sauce
Another Thanksgiving favorite of mine is cranberry sauce. I’ve loved it since childhood. However, I have to admit that what I loved in childhood was the canned, jellied kind, which seemed almost magical. My mom would open both ends of the can and then push it out one end. There it would sit on the serving…
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Diet | Fall | Garden | Ingredients | Main Dish | Meals & Courses | Produce | Rice, Grains & Noodles | Seasonal | Summer | Vegan
The Last of the Summer Harvest
We had our first hard frost last night. Just as the sun was setting I snuck out to the backyard to salvage any last frost-fragile offerings from my garden. I found several sweet peppers: some ripe and red, a couple in transition from green to red, and a few others still green. There were a number…
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Dairy Free | Diet | Fall | Gluten Free | Ingredients | Meals & Courses | Produce | Sides | Vegan | Winter
Ibu’s Curried Butternut Squash
A friend recently asked me for a recipe with pumpkin. Truth be told, I don’t cook with pumpkin that often. I use other winter or hard squashes more frequently. So I’m offering up this butternut squash recipe in lieu of a pumpkin recipe.
