A Simple Crisp
It occurs to me that I missed rhubarb season this year. While I can sporadically find kale or packaged chard at the grocery store in …
Cabbage-Rice Soup
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul …
Nearly Fall
california / gluten-free / life / nostalgia / recipe / san francisco / vegan / vegetables / vegetarian
[Lavender-onion tart, August 2009.] Time was, summer was this perfect, ethereal thing marked by fog and trips to the coast and cursing at the July …
Not-too-Sweet Banana Muffins
I do this thing where I buy a big bunch of bananas on my weekly trip to the grocery store and then spend the rest …
How We Nurture {+ Beet Bowl}
It’s a few days away from Mother’s Day and I’m mentally scanning if I mailed the cards in time, ordered the xxx for my mom, …
Quinoa with Carrots
About a year and a half ago we took a short plane ride from Casablanca to Bordeaux to visit my husband’s cousins who were living …
Spelt-Chocolate Scones
In Morocco, March was my favorite month of the year: breezy, sunny, still cool, with the countryside slowly flooding with green. In San Francisco, March …
Braised Spinach with Chickpeas and Lemon
About 6 months before we left Morocco I began to make this version of a recipe I came across on The Kitchn for spinach cooked …
Peanut Sauce for Now or Later
Peanut butter has always been a friend, either in sweets, on toast, bananas or apples, and used in my latest favorite implementation, a luscious, gingery …