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Another new vegetable addition to my palate’s palette. Brussels sprouts have, of course, been rehabbed from their bad rap ...

 September still feels like summer here in L.A., but I know the rest of the country will be moving on to apples and pumpki...

I have a bad habit of trying new vegetable side dishes and forgetting to note them here, either because I didn’t bother to...

I’ve mentioned at least four times on this site that I hate potato salad, usually in the context of…trying another potato ...

Well, we survived—and even enjoyed— the soup , so it was time to be brave and give cauliflower a shot in its natural form....

Deb Perelman at Smitten Kitchen is a blogger after my own heart, especially where fritters are concerned. A peek at my a...

I feel like I rambled a lot in my last entry, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet...much like these carrots! Despite ...

Here would be a perfect place to employ the oft-overused (I include myself in this accusation) foodie phrase “summer in a ...

Asparagus + strawberries + mint + lemon = spring in a bowl. Add feta and spinach and you can’t hold me back. I might never...

The Crispy Pork Medallions recipe was accompanied in Cooking Light by a basic roasted root vegetable medley, but that looked kind of borin...

My!New!Oven! was installed unexpectedly midweek, so I hadn’t had the chance to plan and shop for any recipes that would put it to use immedi...

Few things say “summer” to me more clearly than the combination of corn and tomatoes, unless perhaps it’s the incredible medley of avocado, ...

Yeah, as I’ve mentioned , I’m totally obsessed with corn this summer, and even though I’ve been eating it in record quantities, I’m not sick...

I’ve made these four or five times without managing to post them here, partly because I was still tinkering with the process and partly beca...

Quinoa! It looks kinda freaky (something about all those tiny dots just makes me uncomfortable, the way fish roe does), but it tastes delici...

It will surprise exactly no one that the combination of green beans and bacon turns out to be excellent. I tore this recipe out of the Nove...

First fennel, then sweet potatoes, and now parsnips? 2010 has thus far apparently been The Year of New Vegetables , or at least The Year Whe...

Psst! I realized something important this week: I've been happily making roasted green beans for years now (YEARS, I TELL YOU) and yet h...

As soon as I saw this Ina Garten recipe mentioned as an aside in an Amateur Gourmet post , I knew it would be the perfect thing to accompan...

Look, yet another way to combine vegetables with shallots and lemon! I will never tire of those flavors. This is a nice, simple-but-inter...