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Kitchen Sink Salad with a Creamy Avocado and Greek Yogurt Dressing
I have some really nice memories of Sunday nights with my family that involve kitchen sink salads. My sister and I would often spend the afternoon outside, our outdoor activities depended on the time of year (destroying piles of raked leaves, making picnic table forts, pretending the hammock was a pirate ship, or constructing little houses…
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Thursday Night Supper
I spent my day eating hot cross buns and hearty lentil salad so a light supper was in order. This bright salad is made of baby greens, iceberg lettuce, radicchio, egg and watermelon radishes, grape tomatoes, and strawberries and it was tossed with a sherry vinegar and honey vinaigrette.
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Baked Hoisin Tofu with Stir Fried Greens and Toasted Cashews
Baked tofu is so simple to make, almost the entire process is hands off and anything that isn’t is put together quickly with little ceremony. You can make it in the morning and then go off to work or back to bed to read and have a nap, or you can let it marinade for…
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Simple Asparagus Dinner
It’s so easy to make a meal out of good, seasonal produce. Ordinary ingredients become Platonic ideals of themselves, every component is placed together in perfect purity of execution. This might seem hyperbolic to some people, but I truly get an immense amount of pleasure from selecting and preparing beautiful vegetables. I was lucky to have…
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Pasta Bake with Eggplant, Tomatoes, and Ricotta Cheese
I have a bad habit of buying eggplants with the best of intentions and then never using them before they start to deteriorate. Every time I open the fridge I guiltily take note of the slow shrivelling that is happening before my eyes. Yes, even the state of my fresh produce causes me anxiety. I…