This salad, from Ottolenghi’s newest cookbook NOPI, brings a lot of goodness to the table. First, a huge serving of red quinoa provides a dose of…
A light drizzle of rain overnight seemed to have awakened the budding green shoots all around. Spring has finally arrived. I want to make a dish…
Don’t remember the chef who said this, when asked what his/her favorite dish he/she would cook at home after work. The answer was fried rice with…
pastry dough cut into rounds over the vegetables Pot pies go back to the time of the Romans. In England, meat of all sorts, like chicken,…
Melted brie crisp on the bottom is a real treat The idea of a savory danish is tempting. The recipe is adapted from the veggie…
Appetizer/ Savory/ Side/ Vegetable/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Stuffed Peppers with Fondant Rutabaga and Goat Cheese
Fondant rutabaga is an unfamiliar term to me. Rutabaga is a confusing vegetable. I thought I bought rutabaga. The Whole Foods’ receipt printed: purple top turnip.…
Try to think about all the exciting vegetable and citrus (or fruit) combinations that capture my imagination and taste buds, this brussels sprouts and pomelo salad…
Chili is the ultimate comfort food in the winter, when the ground is hard, the wind is blowing and the temperature drops below freezing. It’s a…
Pasta or noodle without carb is something my family wants to eat with abandon. I often use zucchinis and other root vegetables, spiralized to make a…
Roasting vegetable is among my favorite methods in cooking vegetables. To me, the way roasted veggies concentrate flavor is what steamed veggies can never do. I…
convection steam/ my favorites/ Roast/ Savory/ Vegetable
Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Parsley Sauce in a Convection Steam Oven
This whole-roasted cauliflower dish has been in the making for quite a while. I first tasted it in a restaurant in D.C. and have been…
Vegetable soup. Warm soup. Spicy soup. Soup for dinner served with some homemade bread. A parsnip soup that’s so earthy, naturally sweet and comforting. It…
I love grilled vegetables, as long as I can cook it on the stovetop in the warmth of the kitchen, and not on the outdoor grill.…
The last of the basket of butternut squash harvested in the fall was finally put into another inviting dish among all the wonderful squash dishes posted…
There are masculine dishes as there are feminine dishes. Farrotto, or farro risotto, is the masculine equivalence to arborio rice risotto. If I’ve lost you for…
This happens to be the first recipe in Ottolenghi’s new book NOPI, in the starter section. I have marked a similar recipe, eggplant with black garlic,…
Cauliflower is like a blank canvas to a painter. It is not the most exciting vegetable. In Britain, cauliflower is mostly dressed in a cream sauce.…
Savory/ Side/ Vegetable/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Roast Butternut Squash with Red Onion, Tahini and Za’atar – 100th Post
This is a sequel to the last post, curried butternut squash soup, as well as the 98 posts preceding it. Butternut squash from the Fitzgerald’s farm is…
The original recipe is asparagus, fennel and beets with verjus from Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty. The word verjus derives from the French term vert jus, literally…
Nature does nothing in vain It seems like a fraud to be presenting a dish like this, a tomato salad with red onion and basil. It…
Chad Robertson/ Levain bread/ sourdough/ Tartine/ Vegetable/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Ricotta & Rosemary Bread Pudding with Tartine Country Loaf
Bread pudding served with grilled green beans for a light vegetarian meal Open crumb and crackly crust sourdough Transforming a humble dish, like a…
mezze (small plates)/ Pantry essentials/ Simmer/ Vegetable/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Green Beans with Freekeh and variety of Tahini
Trio of tahini dips The theme of cooking farm-fresh produce continues in earnest. I like the idea of making a vegetable dish in an exclusively green…
You are in for a treat with this beet salad, even if beets are not your favorite food. I used golden beets because that what I…
Braise/ my favorites/ Pantry essentials/ Vegetable/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Sweet Corn Polenta with Eggplant Sauce
This dish is using ingredients from the local farmers’ market. Among my favorites vegetables I have been stocking up on are: white corn (Jersey Silver Queen),…
After reading yesterday’s New York Times article, “Gazpacho is the New Orange,” I decided to test drive what was proclaimed to be the best gazpacho.…