As much as I adore fresh, raw ingredients in my salads, sometimes I think roasting veggies makes them taste even better. There’s something about that slow-cooked, vaguely-carmelized flavor that makes a roasted salad explode on my tongue in an ever-so-smooth kind of way. And such salads are ridiculously easy to make — the veggies themselves [...]
I love corn. Real corn, that is, not high-fructose corn syrup, caramel color, dextrose, maltodextrin, and all the other hundreds of processed corn products in our food today. Real corn is corn on the cob and corn chips and cornmeal…and things made with those, like roasted corn and chips and salsa and Indian pudding. And, [...]
This African-influenced stew hovers somewhere between being a thick, Italian pomodoro sauce and American chili. You can spoon it over rice or couscous, serve it with crispy flatbread (in this case, a toasted pita with Parmesan cheese), or eat it all on its own. Be sure, though, to buy good-quality tomato sauce–it will be the [...]
Freekah is the latest chic grain to hit the grocery shelves–I found a pre-cooked variety of it at Trader Joe’s a few weeks ago. Also known as “green wheat,” freekah consists of very young whole wheatberries that have been picked before the main harvest. Diners in the Middle East have been enjoying this nutty grain [...]
