eggplant caponata
I first alluded to this dish back when I posted on a cold noodle salad I’d made for a dinner in my favorite style: that is to say, tapas, or little plates. It’s a trendy…
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smoky sweet potato soup
Give this soup an hour of your time, and it'll reward you with silky, smoky, sweet-tart bursts of flavor.
spaghetti squash nests with moroccan spices
Seasons are now things of the past. Figments of memory, slices of lives lived farther north. With brisk days and crisp leaves behind me, I must now try to notice the small changes around me…
punjabi spinach and chickpeas
With depth and complexity of flavor, this stew radiates turmeric, cumin, garlic, and ginger.
grainy waldorf salad
While doing crunches at the gym today, I was interrupted by a tentative voice. “Can I ask you a question?” said a slim woman stretched out beside me on the mat, a second-year student at…
kale chips
Crisped-up in a hot oven with just some good olive oil and salt, there is no better destiny for the wrinkled kale leaf.
muffin mondays: jessie bea’s vegan apple muffins
Hello, fresh cracked pepper readers! Jen sweetly asked me to write a post for her new series, Muffin Mondays. I’m Jessie Bea from Jessie Bea Eats, and here’s my contribution. Autumn in upstate New York…
buttercup squash soup
Squash is a rather deceiving name for the vegetable to which it refers. With pudgy approachability and even cuteness, the squash family is far from cushy. Take, for example, this buttercup. Looks delightful enough. With…
tempeh two ways
Besides the “stuffed” part, these two recipes have little to do with our Canadian Thanksgiving up in Ottawa this past weekend. Fermented soy beans don’t have much in common with turkey and pumpkin pie, but…
the whole enchilada
When two good friends of ours left last week for Connecticut, I closed the chapter of our year-long neighborly friendship in the same way that I opened it: with a meal from Veganomicon.