Soups, Salads, and Starters

You’ve probably never been working away in the kitchen and had the thought, “what I really need is a good sprouted mung bean fritter recipe.” Neither have I. But I spend a lot of time thinking about food, and this means I spend a lot of time thinking up kitchen adventures. A week or so [...]

No worries, no fish eggs here. (Mike looked horrified when I said I was making mushroom caviar). It’s just a simple mushroom spread — a little something I made for zakuski. Don’t know what zakuski is? Neither did I until a few weeks ago when Nikki at Art & Lemons chose zakuski as the theme [...]

Show of hands, who likes to peel squash? Hmm, no one? Well my friends, do I have a tip for you. Did you know there’s a squash you can roast and eat, skin and all? It’s true, and it’s called delicata squash. While it shows up about the same time of year as the winter [...]

There’s a farmer’s market in the nearby park that we’d been hearing about since we moved to St. Louis. I finally made my way over there this week, and I found some lovely carrots. (And blueberries, but they didn’t last long enough to end up in a dish.) I thought I’d do some experimenting with [...]