Vegetarian

My niece has planted her first garden this year and is harvesting beautiful peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers. Remembering a tempting salad recipe I had seen in the June 1999 issue of Bon Appétit, I asked myself what would happen if some of her Cajun cucumbers met a–Read more

We recently had the fantastic opportunity to travel in Ecuador and Peru. While sights of sea turtles skimming through the water of the Galapagos and majestic Incan ruins emerging from the fog at Machu Picchu are still vivid in my mind, the food we encountered–Read more

There’s something special about the smell of cinnamon in the air on a weekend morning. That was my thought when I decided to make special waffles—power waffles—to start our Saturday a couple weeks ago. The recipe, adapted from one by Rochelle Palermo and published in–Read more

I grew up in southwestern Louisiana, just a few miles from Opelousas, which was then called the sweet potato capital of the South. We ate sweet potatoes often, but they were frequently served in very sugary dishes. My Aunt Dean made her special sweet potato–Read more

A slice of sweetness can make strong memories.  These Mississippi Mud bars bring together some flavors of Easters past: pecan-studded Goldbrick eggs, fluffy marshmallow insides of filled bunnies, the chocolate coating on– almost everything.   Somewhat like brownies topped with marshmallows and then a rich chocolate–Read more

A few weeks ago my friend Rachel wrote to me about spring pretending to come, only to be chased away by wintry weather. She said that one of her remedies to bring light into her kitchen was cooking with Hatch chiles from New Mexico. Her–Read more