Ever since I had baked Feta at a lovely out-of-the-way restaurant in Panamá, I’ve been wanting to make it myself. The idea is just so simple! I’d had baked Camembert plenty of times in Germany — when I lived there, baked Camembert with rote Grütze was one of my favorite dishes, right up there with [...]
Winter days seem a lot warmer and cozier with a bowl of hot soup. (Especially a bowl of hot soup that can go from recipe to reality in 15 minutes.) Luckily for those of us snuggled in for the season, some of the most satisfying ingredients are easy to come by in the winter: earthy [...]
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I’ve always thought lentils were interesting — they’re not quite a pea and they’re not quite a bean, but they are a member of the legume family and as such they make great salads and soups. Nowadays, the standard brown soup lentils of my childhood have given way to speckled round French lentils, flat green [...]
I threw together some odds-’n-ends for an appetizer last night, and it worked! Thought I’d share the recipe: 1 can white beans (Great White Northern), drained 3-4 marinated artichoke hearts, finely chopped juice of 1/2 a lemon 1/2 a medium white/yellow onion, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 tsp. dried rosemary 1/2 tsp. [...]
This herb–which smells a bit like a pine forest–has been used since the days of the ancient Greeks. Back then, it was considered to be a memory aid–students wore garlards of it while studying for exams. It protected against evil spirits in medieval times, and in the 1500s in Europe, it was used to perfume [...]
