Seasonal Cooking

Each time I make this Summer Slaw with Blackberries, I am carried back in time. I vividly remember the summertime ritual of picking blackberries when I was growing up.  We would scout out abundant vines along roadsides and pile out of the car with our–Read more

I love to discover new recipes by happenstance. Last week I was paging through Gourmet Today, a cookbook I’ve had over 10 years, and for some reason a recipe for Winter Tabbouleh caught my attention. Instead of the familiar tabbouleh composed of ripe summer tomatoes,–Read more

As summer days heat up, it’s a treat to be able to put together a dish that is beautiful and filling, but requires no heat from the stove or oven. Spinach and Papaya Salad with Cashews has tropical flavors, eye-catching colors, and is packed with–Read more

I count rhubarb among spring mysteries. It’s a vegetable that’s treated as a fruit. It looks like blushing celery, but is actually part of the buckwheat family. Its leaves are poisonous, yet its stems are edible. Paired with sweet springtime fruits, it becomes a worthy–Read more

My mother, known by her nickname Buttons, is a cookbook collector, recipe reader, and very talented cook. While her projects in the kitchen are simpler these days, the dishes she is known for are an important part of our family legacy. When I asked my–Read more

Like many friends and family, I’ve been working lately at how best to cook from my pantry stores. Almost serendipitously, I ran across a recipe for Monastery Soup while reading Caroline Eden’s latest book Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes Through Darkness and Light. Before I–Read more