Cook Food. Mostly Plants.

Inspired by  this gorgeous book by Robin Wall Kimmerer, our family has been talking this week about the Indigenous practice of planting cor...

Yep, you heard me. Ingredients 1 cup milk 1 tbsp white vinegar 2 tbsp butter 3/4 cups whole wheat flour Scant 1/3 cup rolled oats 3 tbsp coa...

Sometimes, you're wandering along the road of life, minding your own business, when it suddenly becomes apparent that breakfast cookies ...

Good things come to those who cook in a Tahoe cabin. Fortunately, the edible parts can also be recreated when you come back to r...

Waffle irons, I fear, get a bad rap. People see them as the sort of item one asks for in a fit of alimentary idealism, only to leave them la...

Sometimes, the world needs more pancakes. Here's my go-to recipe these days...the secret to amazing fluffiness seems to be butter +...

You may have noticed that I have a thing about conquering new foods. First it was kale , I think. Then fish . Cauliflower went from du...

Many people claim to possess the recipe for the best scrambled eggs ever. Clearly, it's an empirical question, and we are an evidence-ba...

Few things make me happier than the blissful combination of smoked salmon and poached egg. I feel obliged to note that these lack Holla...

In our ongoing quest to discover easy and delicious mostly-plant breakfasts , we stumbled on this one completely by accident. All you n...

Here's the thing. Let's say the school year has hit, and you're going up for tenure next year, and your calendar is flooded w...

There is a time for thought and a time for action. And when the evening air turns crisp and cool and the last tomatoes of the season scent t...

For mornings when all you want for breakfast is a plate of dessert, extra flavor, hold the guilt.   Ingredients 2-4 slices fresh bakery ...

I could go on and on about polenta pancakes. The slight crunch of golden toasted cornmeal on the outside. The creamy sweetness of yellow pol...

I'm in love with June produce. (True, some people might think of today as July, but I prefer June 33rd. Anything to maintain the illusio...

Who says whole food breakfasts can't be quick and easy? Ingredients 2 ripe D'Anjou pears, wedged (they're ripe when they yie...

As a longtime cereal-and-toast person, the first meal of the day continues to be the one I'm most likely to cheat on when it comes to th...