Enchiladas Verde

So, I had delicious leftover pinto beans. And I found tomatillos at the market. A farmer had a bunch of poblanos and Anaheim chiles. And avocados are in season. (Well, not here in Ohio–they are never in season here. But they are all over the grocery stores in various stages of wonderful.) What does all […]

Aubergine Rhapsody

Eggplant is a sexy vegetable. Voluptuously curvaceous, with a deliciously fecund heft, the typical European eggplant seduces with its glossy violet-black skin capped by a perky green stem. It looks mysterious, and very little like an egg, though apparently, the first ones were small, ovoid and white, which makes the North American common name much […]

Gussied-Up Appalachian Classic

There are certain dishes that call me back to the hills and hollows, that recall the trickle of banjo and dulcimer music wafting on a sultry mountain breeze. The wail of a fiddle breaking fancy, the cry of crows flying low over a newly planted field of warm red clay, the smell of newly cut […]

A Childhood Favorite Resurrected

When I was a child, my favorite breakfast was a small pile of blueberry pancakes. Bacon was optional, but syrup was necessary, and a tall glass of ice cold milk was the beverage of choice. In those days, blueberry pancakes were either made by my mother, or later, myself, from a mix, or they came […]

Persian Cherry Pilaf

Persian cuisine is an ancient one that is more familiar than one might think; if you have eaten in a typical Indian restaurant in the United States which serves Northern Indian food, you have eaten dishes which have their roots in Persia. The Persians conquered the lands of Northern India in the sixteenth century, and […]

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