Cook Food. Mostly Plants.

Sometimes dinner should be simple. And recyclable throughout the week. And delicious. It is in these sorts of cases that one wishes for a ma...

A year or two ago, I watched a friend of mine toss some peppers in the oven to roast, so that she could use them throughout the week. Now, t...

The thing about wandering the streets of Paris in search of various foodie quests nominated by the brilliant Clothilde Dusoulier is that o...

Apparently, the husband is the real cook of the household(s), because while I've been stuck in a repeat loop on old (and newer ) favori...

Sauteed Corn with Cilantro and Avocado Smoked Bacon and Mushroom Risotto   Black-Eyed Peas and Polenta Sa...

 Found in the garden: Sweet Italian heirloom peppers, tomatoes, flat-leaf parsley Found in the cupboard: Red Bhutanese rice, butter beans Fo...

There are few things as simple, hearty, inexpensive, and roundly delicious as rice and beans. Here's one of our favorite versions yet. ...

Thanksgiving always raises a multitude of deep and important questions. Should the turkey be stuffed or unstuffed? Six side dishes or seven?...

Hey guess what? It's summer. I'm not quite sure how it happened, but it's clearly high time we put things on skewers and grilled...

I know this shouldn't come as a shock, but plants, it turns out, have leaves. Or in other (slightly less obvious-sounding) words, we oft...

By all rights, this should have been a disaster. Bok choy and garbanzo beans clearly don't mix, and I honestly don&#...

Found at the coop: Amaranth greens. No idea what to do with these. The internets suggested something called callaloo soup, which was great f...

This made a nice, simple, protein-laden backdrop to the other things we were cooking tonight (collard greens with applewood smoked bacon, ab...