{recipe} Spiced Fried Chickpeas with Preserved Lemon
Last year, in London, I ate a fabulous meal of North African tapas at Morito, a sultry wine bar with knee-to-knee barstools. One of the most memorable small plates that night was a simple...
Category: Appetizer + Snack Recipes
{recipe} Pea and Leek Pancakes with Black Pepper Crema
Last week I shared my favorite potato pancake substitute, the Korean vegetable pancakes known as jijims, but seeing as there are still 5 more days of Hanukkah left this year, I thought you might...
{recipe} Jijims (aka Jeon, aka Korean Vegetable Pancakes, aka Korean Latkes)
Hanukkah is just around the corner, which means I have latkes on the brain. Now I am not Jewish, but I can appreciate a good latke. Fried potato anything? Yes please. But when my...
{recipe} Three Cheese Zucchini Frittata
Whenever I cook for vegetarians, I sometimes struggle to figure out what to make that will be a filling, satisfying meal. Lately, I’ve been making this frittata a whole bunch, and not even missing...
{recipe} Sweet & Spicy Holiday Nuts
This is one of my favorite holiday snacks – crunchy sugar-coated nuts with balancing hits of salt and spice. The trick with these is to stir them super vigorously so the sugar starts to...
{recipes} Southeast Asian Potstickers and Duck a l’Orange Potstickers
(Note: This happened several months ago, but I couldn’t find the recipes I wrote down, so I hadn’t posted about it. I found them wadded up in the bottom of a drawer recently, so...
{recipe} Yosemite-Ready Granola Bars with Dried Cherries, Almonds, & Cocoa Nibs
Last weekend I had the great fortune to spend some time in Yosemite. I went with some friends who are really excellent cooks and hosts, so I wanted to impress them by showing up...
{recipe} Crunchy Oil-Free Granola Made Exactly to your Liking
I used to think eating granola was healthy. I would eat a big bowl with milk for breakfast, feeling virtuous about starting my day right with one of those “balanced breakfasts” people are always...
{recipe} Creamy Heirloom Tomato Gazpacho
In San Francisco, we suffer through a cold and foggy July and August in anticipation of the warm, sunny Indian summer days that arrive during September and October. While our East Coast counterparts are...
{how to} Five Minute Padron Peppers
Every year, it seems like all of the restaurants get together and decide they’re going to put some new food on every single menu in town. Whether it’s purslane, chicories, Calabrian chiles, or ramps–I’m...
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