Lila Beans and Tzatziki
Sunday mornings mean lots of slow cooking and hummingbird watching. I try and get out and do something but the idea of hanging out all day in my home with...
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Breakfast Soup
Why do so many of the best dishes come from leftovers? I had made our new Caballero beans last night and for breakfast, I decided to make a quick, simple...
Let's Make a Weed Fritatta! (No! Not That Kind!)
When I first started gardening, quelites were one of the first things I was curious about. I'd been told that in Nahuatl that the word meant "edible green" so the...
Slow Cooker Mushrooms with Domingo Rojo Beans and Brown Rice
I was given a lot of mushrooms and they were spending too much time in my fridge, so I decided to do a little test with my new slow cooker....
More Uses for Prepared Hominy Beyond Pozole
Don't tell my Mexican friends. Don't tell my southern friends. The fact is, hominy is great and it goes beyond grits or pozole (or posole). I was making pozole for...
Pinole: One of the Great Mexican Treats You Might Not Know About
Yunuen from Xoxoc was very excited when she told me about a special pinole (peen-oh-lay) made from heirloom blue corn. I wasn’t 100 percent sure what to do with it...
"The Dish" for Thanksgiving 2015: Heirloom Bean & Wild Rice Salad
My pal Alexis Handelman, the creative brains behind our beloved Alexis Baking Company here in Napa, had me over this last summer for a meal. It was all delicious but...
Alubia Blanca-Potato Soup with Cascabel Chile Salsa
I love the thought of soup. I love the reality of soup. At a dinner party, a soup course means the evening is bound to be full of good things...
Roasted Pepper, Capers and Goat Cheese on Cracker
Sunday is my favorite day of the week. If I'm not traveling, I'm home cooking for the family and if I'm good, I'm preparing food for the week to take...
Beans on Toast Revisited
I don't have much to say about this except I remember living in London in 1981, being very poor and then introduced to British beans on toast. It was fine...
Pasta e Fagioli Salad
I've somehow avoided pasta salads most of my life. I'm sure there have been good ones I've missed, but for the most part, I think they can be pretty dreadful....
Pasta e Fagioli: The Vegetarian Variation
The essence of Pasta e Fagioli is pasta and beans. If you want to make a vegetarian version, it's pretty easy. The pasta provides the texture, the beans and aromatics...