Tag Archives: vegetarian

Indian-Spiced Greens with Carrots & Chickpeas

Greens are in right now at your farmers markets and while wilting them with some garlic is delicious and classic, here’s an outlet that’s a little more exotic. Indian-Spiced Greens with Carrots & Chickpeas 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil 3 T…
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Creamy Green Dandelion and Fresh Herb Dip

Having a versitle recipe for a creamy dip is great in this kind of weather. No need to cook anything, and you can serve with chips or veggies, or fire up the grill and slather on fish, burgers, chicken… Substitute…
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Sautéed Peaches with Pan-Roasted Walnuts

The original plan for the Tarrytown farmers market was to follow the recipe I had written a week before. This is the plan for all the Markets, actually, but one of the glories of shopping straight from a farm is…
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Market Basket Cooking and Greens Pot Stickers

If I ever get asked a generic question like, “What does it take to be a chef?” I’m going to say something like “the ability to improvise” and tell the story of today: I arrived at the Pelham market this…
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Taking the Show on the Road & Market Vegetable Pot Stickers

I started out today kind of nervous. At 4pm, I was to be “on” as the new demonstration chef-at-the-market and feared stuck pot stickers, exploding gas burner, impatient market goers, traffic holding me up the GW Bridge… and instead, I…
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Spring Vegetable Sauté

  This is an excellent side dish that showcases spring peas and asparagus. I added some edamame too for added dimension of texture and flavor. Serve as a side dish for brunch, or as I did, at dinner with grilled…
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Preserving Other People’s Harvests

The summer is over. There it is. The honest truth. Sure, it was 95 in New York today, but the daylight hours are shortening and the nights have a chilliness not felt in June, July or August. Kids are back…
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Ginger Curry Lentil Soup

I have an enormous collection of cooking magazines. Sometimes I think I should hire someone to type all the recipes into a program like iTunes, so that I could search for a particular ingredient or season, but that would take…
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Savory-Sweet Watermelon and Pink Grapefruit Salad

I made this for a Hootenanny this weekend. After lots of smoked pork butt, ribs, beans and greens, its a refreshing dessert alternative to all the red velvet cake and beer. Savory-Sweet Watermelon and Pink Grapefruit Salad 1/2 a large…
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Spicy Vegetarian Chili

The Gourmand & I have been entertaining vegetarian guests for a few nights while they stay with us in our apartment. This has (pretty much, but not entirely) meant that The Gourmand & I adopt a vegetarian diet as well,…
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