I love pasta and at least every week or two spaghetti with tomato sauce shows up on our dinner table. My go-to tomato sauce is based on an old Cooks Illustrated recipe for Spaghetti Puttanesca from March & April 2002. Since Grandpa is a vegetarian, we don't put meat in the … [Read more...]
Korean-Style Vegetable Pancakes
I think Maangchi is adorable and I love to watch her YouTube videos. The New York Times called Maangchi "YouTube's Korean Julia Child" and she has a cookbook too, Maangchi's Real Korean Cooking: Authentic Dishes for the Home Cook. If you want a straightforward Maangchi video, … [Read more...]
Health Soup
This New York Times recipe for miso soup from Tamar Adler is ideal for for easing minor ailments that can make one miserable. The recipe results in a large amount, so you can freeze half for any future illnesses. Of course you don't need to wait until you are sick to make the … [Read more...]
Butternut Squash Soup
Adapted from Ruth Reichl's My Kitchen Year (2015). Ruth describes this soup as “the most luxurious vegan dish I know.” On that first dreary and cold day of fall, this soup is comforting and so good. When we went to visit my brother Steve in November, he gave us a box … [Read more...]
Yellow-Eye Beans
We got some Rancho Gordo heirloom yellow-eye beans from Amazon on the advice of Kathleen Purvis of the Charlotte Observer. We cooked some in the slow cooker and the first batch went into delicious bean dip for the crazy days and nights of moving week. The second batch cooked … [Read more...]