Cook Food. Mostly Plants.

A few weeks ago, while lunching outdoors in Berkeley on a shady patio, basking in the summery summertime, I was offered a bite of potato sal...

The downside of cooking away from home is navigating a foreign kitchen. For instance, I would have thought low heat was lower than medium, b...

Quick, easy, and stupendously delicious...hello, salmon season . I've missed you. Serve this over jasmine rice or jade pearl rice , ...

There were pea shoots in our CSA box this week. Not little baby pea shoots, like the ones that come in a nice safe-looking plastic cont...

The problem with brunch -- and I must admit I feel slightly sacrilegious uttering those words, so allow me to rephrase -- one tiny, insignif...

Our house guests this week brought fresh-caught salmon with them (which we think all future house guests should take as a challenge), and ou...

I suspect this would work with any green mystery vegetable. Certainly broccolini would go well (but note that it will probably take a few mo...

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

I tend to be ambivalent about big purple eggplants -- on the one hand, they're so delightfully purple, and can sometimes taste wonderful...

I have this pet suspicion that anyone who says they don't really like vegetables must be thinking of the boiled, steamed, or canned vari...

This is one of those everything-but-the-kitchen sink recipes that can be made with whatever you have on hand. Luffa squash appeared in our C...

We found a big bunch of purplish green beans in our produce box last week, and they turned out to be much heartier and less watery (and also...

Found in our CSA box last weekend: tinda squash and chinese cabbage, and a recommendation to make a curry. So we did. Serve this over s...

Easy and delicious (good for when you totally forgot the leafy green side dish till the last moment): Ingredients A couple handfuls ama...

At some point last week, I decided it was about time to learn to soak my own beans. Now, if you've soaked beans before, you probably thi...

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

One day last week, while perusing our Coop's vegetable aisle and pining after the now-absent baby rainbow chard, my eyes fell on a bunch...