Growing up in the Midwest, one of my favorite places to hang out in midsummer was the asparagus patch at the back of our huge garden. The asparagus itself was not the draw, as by that time the slender shoots had given way to billowing, fern-like shrubs, dotted with tiny red berries. In that dense [...]
Sweet Potato Fries with Roasted Red Pepper Ketchup
The primary thing that makes something “junk food” is the degree of separation from foodstuffs in their whole states. If you love fries, eat fries–just make them yourself, and don’t feel bad about eating them. Most commercially-produced fries are multiple steps away from the whole potato, and usually fried in oils that you might want [...]
Shrimp Quenelles
When I was ten years old I started collecting old cookbooks and cooking magazines from the local used bookstore, and I amassed quite a large collection. I had a fairly complete set of old Gourmet magazines, as well as a strange variety of cookbooks, ranging from spiral-bound, regional fair collections to James Beard and Julia [...]
Vanilla Bean Floating Island (dairy free)
Floating Island is an old-fashioned dessert made by “floating” puffs of meringue in a little sea of crème anglaise. The meringues are often poached in a liquid, but in this case I baked them until they were set, but still soft. I also replaced the cream with coconut milk, and used raw honey in place [...]
Toasted Coconut Snow Ice Cream (dairy free)
While many of you are no doubt tired of snow and are longing for spring, here in Colorado we have had another extremely dry winter, so our current snow “storm” is an incredible relief. I put storm in quotes because I lived in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for a few years, and this doesn’t really rank [...]
Sesame Eggplant with Sriracha-Honey Drizzle (grain free)
This is a dish I have been thinking about making for a long, long time, but only recently got around to testing it out. I don’t know why I waited so long, as it was even better than I had imagined in my food-brain. One of my biggest “bad” food cravings is for sesame-anything from [...]
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