Toasts with gouda, capers and olive tapenade
Simple to prepare, and good for guests.
Orange nutmeg waffles
This is one of my favorite ways to make waffles.
Cherry tomatoes and arugula in balsamic cream sauce
I envisioned this as a sort of hot salad. In fact, many of the ingredients are the same — tomatoes, arugula, onions, balsamic vinegar. They just happen to be in a warm cream sauce.
Pasta with purple cauliflower and walnut cream sauce
It’s yet another purple dish! As purple food week continues, today we had pasta for lunch, topped with a cream sauce of purple cauliflower and walnuts. Beyond being colorful on its own, the cauliflower lent the sauce a light purple tint.
Soup with purple cauliflower and blue cheddar
This dish truly takes advantage of the colorful vegetables I’m preparing for my purple vegetable week, with my lovely purple cauliflower: a white cauliflower cream soup, spotted with roasted purple florets.
Saturday brunch: Lahoh, purple salad with ginger-dill dressing and more
This Saturday brunch included fresh-baked lahoh, a purple salad with ginger-dill dressing, a cheese-herb omelet and a random assortment of roasted purple vegetables. The lahoh was great, and is noteworthy because I don’t think many recipes for this Yemenite pita appear in English
Rose pasta sauce with capers and cheese
Another simple, easy dinner. The title pretty much speaks for the dish.
Saturday brunch with spinach bake and Italian salad
This Saturday brunch included a personal-sized baked spinach shakshuka, an Italian-style chopped salad, chocolate chip cookies made with the New York Times’ recipe, and more. Brunch is always a pleasure.
Saturday morning buttermilk pancakes
We usually make waffles instead of pancakes, and I remembered why when I poured my first batch of pancakes into the pan, and they promptly burned. My waffle iron produces tidy, consistent results, but pancakes take a little practice. In any case, once I stopped burning them, the pancakes tasted …
Pappardelle with pumpkin seed oil and herbs
Since I think my coconut pumpkin soup recipe inspired at least one person to go out and buy pumpkin seed oil (hi mom!), I figured I’d offer a few more suggestions for how to use it.