a recipe blog focused on seasonal ingredients
sugar snap peas. why do i always forget how good they are?! every summer i see them at the farmers’ market and figure, “eh, might as well. they’re so fresh.” and then i get them home and they are so delicious! and reasonably easy as far as prep goes, which, let’s be honest, is totally a factor given that someone decided it was a good idea to set the standard at working 5 days out of 7. i have thoughts about that ratio, but let’s stick with sugar snap peas…
…
alright, thank you for indulging me in my epic (read: 3 year) quest to perfect and publish some dairy free hazelnut ice cream with strawberry and chocolate swirls, that only takes, you know, several days and a dozen steps. aaaaand doesn’t even solve the question of what the heck we’re eating for dinner tonight! y’all are good sports. let’s grill some dinner, shall we?
…
weelllllll helllllo! it. has. been. a. MINUTE. by which i might mean year. i didn’t mean to ghost on you, things have just been a bit busy. just about a year ago, i got a full-time job, which has been great, but it’s taken me a little bit to figure out how to reconfigure my life so that i can fit this cooking / photographing / chatting with you piece back in.
…
i know we already have one broccoli salad buuut, it turns out i really like them and we’re doing another! this time it’s spicy miso tahini broccoli salad. we throw a bunch of yummy things (ginger! garlic! jalapeños! cilantro! lime juice! tahini! miso!) in the blender and then in practically no time, we’re crunching on a bowl of savory, sweet, creamy, and crunchy spicy miso tahini broccoli salad. all summer long….
a while back, i was trying to create a raw broccoli slaw with a vaguely mexican-inspired dressing. while the creamy jalapeño cilantro sauce i tried didn’t really accomplish what i was going for, it turned out to be delicious on… every other thing there ever once was….