Easter Eggs
If you're hunting for an Easter egg dish, let me help. Here are 10 recipes for a wonderful Sunday brunch after your stroll in the Easter Parade. n
Risi e Bisi: Sweet Spring Pea Risotto
Luscious, creamy rice. Fresh, sweet Spring peas. And some smoky prosciutto. Elegant and hearty for an early Spring night. Those fresh peas are the best reason to visit the Farmers Market this week.
Melts in your mouth, not your backpack
Peanut Butter & Grape Bread. Not a joke. Profoundly great bread. Without kneading dough. Really. Just 30 seconds of stirring. Because sometimes you just feel like eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. When you're out hiking.
Nuts! Walnut-Fava Bean Salad on Polenta
Your eyes and nose are partying. Your mouth is thrilled. Soft, rich, luscious polenta with the firm favas' sweetness and the crunchy walnuts', well, nuttiness. Slicked with olive oil and sea salt. Delicious, satisfying, packed with vegetable protein.
Spring Garlic: Bread & Flan
A magical combination of garlic bread and garlic custard in one dish. Rich but light. Deeply flavorful. Wildly fragrant. Completely satisfying. The centerpiece of a vegetarian meal. Or a side that turns a simple grilled fish or meat dish into an amazing meal.
Spring Faves: Favas
Must be Spring. Fresh fava beans at the Farmers Market. They're bright green, they're tender, they're slightly sweet. Preparing them is Slow. But really worth it. And they're great in my Complete Protein Tacos.
Aromatic Spring Vegetable-Potato Gratin
Delicious and beautiful. 50 cents per serving. If a gratin sounds like something you shouldn't try at home by yourself, the sound's deceiving. Click. Seeing, tasting and inhaling is believing.
Spring Soup Strategy Some garlic with your tea?
A perfect Way to begin a light, slow and satisfying Spring meal. Another Way to use great aroma - and lots of it - to let you to eat less but feel like you ate more. A little garlic with your tea?
What We Can Learn from Ginger Ale
You can make a glass of intensely flavorful, thoroughly refreshing and, yes, kinda sweet soda with a fraction of the sugar calories you'd get in a can or bottle of Coke or another industrial soda. This is the gateway homemade soda pop.
Coconut-Chile Shooters
Coconut milk with a few drops of chile pepper. Very high Pleasure Per Calorie score. Whether you knock one back as a pre-appetizer sip with a kick. Or use it to sauce a fish, chicken or vegetable dish in a hurry.