Tag: Vegetables

I suspect that the time for writing posts about butternut squash and eating things made with butternut squash is quickly drawing to a close. You all want asparagus and rhubarb and meyer lemons and things …

I've never been the biggest fan of pasta (cue screams of horror from right-thinking people everywhere.) Oh sure, I'll eat it if Mario Batali is preparing it, but the standard home pasta dish of …

When I was pregnant with the Nuni, I ate prodigiously of a wide variety of foods. I have read that the mother's diet can be "tasted" by the baby, and babies develop a preference …

Springtime may be the most eagerly anticipated time of the year. I have vivid memories of the first warm day of each year when I lived on the East Coast – people would emerge …

When Ken and I first moved to Los Angeles, we’d go to our favorite local bar every Sunday night. We’d sit in a booth sipping local microbrews and munching upmarket bar snacks like wood fired …

My early encounters with sweet potatoes were of the Thanksgiving variety – candied from a can and topped with marshmallows and tooth-achingly sweet. I was not a big fan. I wanted dessert for dessert, and …

It’s confession time. I love mashed potatoes. I know they’re terribly unfashionable in our low glycemic-index, phytochemical-obsessed, Mediterranean Diet culture. They’re stodgy and white and lacking in high concentrations of flavonoids or anthocyanins, without the …