home eco-nomics for the rest of us
One of my favorite appetizers or snacks is a vegan street food from southern France called socca. It’s made with garbanzo bean flour, and although it looks like flatbread, there’s no gluten in it. Best of all, no recipe necessary! Here’s the formula: 1 C. …
Here’s the thing about pumpkin pie. The crust. Really? Despite a conscientious pre-bake and all those shenanigans, the only sometimes worth-eating part of a pumpkin pie crust is what sticks out above the custard, and that – with apologies to all you pastry kings and …
Beets like this – magic. Golden, red, and everything in between, there are difficult and messy ways to prepare beets (those ways have their time), and then there’s this. Works every time. And there are so many things you can do with them! Like this …
Chicken Soup! It seems impossible something this easy can be this delicious. In soup-er brief: You drop a whole chicken into water, boil it with vegetables, and you’re done. The only caveat is that the chicken be fresh or thawed. Ingredients for Chicken Soup, Old …
Our fall days zoom on, shorter and shorter. Here’s a handful (in five installments) of super speedy foods – no recipe necessary, few (and flexible) ingredients required, quick to assemble, quick to clean afterward. That they’re healthy (pretty much) is bonus plus. Then, you can …
I had some quinoa in the fridge, leftover from a tofu katsu dinner I’d enjoyed a few nights ago. (Man, that was good!) So when I woke up wanting something hot and substantial for breakfast, I thought – why not stir up an individual quinoa …
This curried red lentil soup just happened despite my efforts to make more of an effort of it. It’s finally super easy, requires only one cutting board and one pot (out of which you can eat, if you’re that sort. I am.). It’s delicious with …
Okra is way too easy to hate, which isn’t fair because there’s so much to love! It says “summertime” almost as ringingly as the tomato sandwich. But it’s okra’s slime that turns people off. I get it. And I’ve been one of those people. Then …
(to accompany this essay also on Huffington Post): Sometimes a dish of beans and rice is just the thing, the just thing. I live in Charlottesville, plenty famous enough, thank you very much, without the white supremacist rally mid-August that catapulted our town into national news. …
It’s so easy to make your own ricotta cheese, and amazingly delicious, too that I can’t imagine ever again buying the plastic tub. There are a million things you can make with it to eat straightaway (smear on toast, sprinkle with cinnamon, add fruit); or …