Grains & Rice

Vegetables

Delicious Veggie Rice Wraps and Meghan Telpner’s UnDiet

Laura and I met the lovely and talented Meghan Telpner when she came breezing into the studio of our mutual friend and photographer Michael Alberstat. We were shooting with Michael

By Occasion

Lisa’s Letters Home: North African Meatballs with Cous Cous

Most meals I make are cooked in one pot because a) they are great time savers and b) I hate doing the dishes. I puffy heart love my slow cooker

By Meal Type

Buckwheat Harvest Tart

How many cook books do you have? I probably have at least 30 and am always tempted to add to my library. And it feels like this year’s batch of

By Meal Type

Pumpkin Oat Bars

Welcome to another edition of cooking with the infirm. Yes, that’s right, Scarlett is sick. Just three weeks into the institution I warmly refer to as the cess pool (otherwise

Dinner

Basic Risotto

It’s September, which means that the kids are back at school where they pick up new and interesting germs to bring home to me. This week, it’s been a bad

By Ingredient

Chef Notes: The Art of Risotto

I love a good risotto.  It can be a an appetizer, a side dish or a main dish.  It’s so versatile yet we treat it like a special occasion dish. 

Grains & Rice

Oatmeal and Banana Blender Pancakes

I’m not even going to mention that this is the last week of summer. Or that school is about to start. Forget you just read that. I’m just here to

By Meal Type

Chef Notes: Amanda’s Secret Staple

I had never heard of quinoa until culinary school.  It’s not something you see in your grandmother’s pantry in Alabama.  And honestly, the first time or two I had it

Snacks & Desserts

Granola Bars

A blast from the past…. C.M. One of the first posts I wrote here at SPC (do you like that? catchy? dumb?) was about processed food and how I was

Grains & Rice

Whole Grain Israeli CousCous Pilaf

A few posts ago we asked what recipes people were looking for lately and someone (was it Natalee?) asked for more sides. I couldn’t agree more that sides are tricky.