Eating

Takes about 10 minutes of preparation. Takes another twenty minutes before your home begins to smell like chocolate bread pudding. Which I now believe is the way every home wants to smell. Making this is easy. Waiting for it to bake is tough.

Not a joke. This is profoundly great bread. Without kneading dough. Really. No kneading. Just 30 seconds of stirring. Because sometimes you just feel like eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. When you're out hiking. Melts in your mouth, not your backpack.

Must be Spring. Fresh fava beans at the Farmers Market. They're bright green, they're tender, they're slightly sweet. And preparing them is really Slow. But I think it's worth it. At least once or twice a year. Great for Complete Protein Tacos.

OK, here it is. A perfect way to get one of those perfectly healthy meals into your diet. A high-protein whole grain with lightly cooked vegetables. Make it in 15 minutes. Light, bright, satisfying meal with a big range of fresh flavors. Five dollars for two, plus leftovers.

Hard to say if this is better for breakfast or for dessert. Depends if you want ice cream with it. Either way, it's a light, moist and refreshing cake. Very intense lemon flavor makes it vibrant. Olive oil keeps it moist and light. Ten minutes to prepare.

Cheap, easy and convincing preview of summer in your mouth. Sweet corn grits cakes: soft and warm inside, crispy around the edges. Fifteen cents each. Top with darn good, not-quite-local tomatoes. Some Spring onions and fresh herbs. A quick trip to summer.

It's officially Spring. I want to cook outdoors. But it was raining, sleeting and hailing. So I sliced the fish into small-bite-sized pieces and put them in a pan with four tablespoons of my salsa verde. Five minutes later, a wonderfully satisfying and intensely flavorful meal.

When life hands you a bowl of cherries, you should make chocolate bread. Even if nobody hands over the cherries and you've never made bread, you should do this. Shows you how easy it is to make great bread. And gives you one of the most delicious breakfasts you'll ever eat.

Like risotto, but made with farro. The first cultivated grain. We humans have been growing this stuff for more than 10,000 years. Incredibly high in protein. Great nutty flavor. A light, bright, satisfying meal with a big range of fresh flavors and textures.