A creamed corn recipe passed to my dad from his mother. It uses the 2-2-1 method with fresh corn, milk, butter, and a bit of flour. If you have two ears of corn give it a try, so simple and good!
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Not your basic, bland, bran muffin. The thing that makes these special is their flavor. They’re buttermilk based with a tender crumb and toasted, craggy top. Perfect smeared with a bit of butter and your favorite marmalade.
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A wonderful farro salad with buttermilk dressing inspired by a version I had at Clyde Common in Portland, Oregon years ago. Imagine nutty farro grains plus shaved radishes, zucchini, and fennel tossed with creamy, herbed, buttermilk dressing. The perfect lunch.
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A beautiful cauliflower salad from the Bar Tartine cookbook – a crunchy, hearty mixture of cauliflower, seeds, chiles, radishes, chickpeas, and green onions slathered in an enveloping garlicky yogurt dressing.
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This is a noodle salad you’ll crave every day. A radiant, color-flecked tangle of noodles, cabbage, shredded carrots, pickled sushi ginger, and an abundance of cilantro, basil, and scallions. It has tofu and peanuts, coconut, ginger, avocado, and hemp seeds. The dressing(!) – it’s simple but strong, and steps in with an assertive spicy sriracha-lime punch.
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The green smoothie recipe from Tara O’Brady’s cookbook, Seven Spoons. An invigorating, bottom’s up, morning kickstarter made from kale, almond butter, almond milk, banana, and pineapple.
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A show-stopper miso soup made with a spicy broth punched up with garlic, ginger and chile paste. To that you add cubed potatoes, chopped cabbage and summer produce like cherry tomatoes, basil, and corn.
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A list of fun pasta shapes to make from scratch in your own kitchen Including hand-rolled pici, cavatelli, and tagliatelle.
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Braised artichokes baked for an hour, covered in an unctuous slathering of olive oil, white wine, olives, mint, garlic and orange zest. Make them on a Sunday night and use throughout the week to make your sandwiches and pastas fantastic.
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A favorite stir-fry recipe. Asparagus and tofu form the base, but it has quite a lot going on beyond that. You get a bite of tang from the lime, heat from the red chiles and fresh ginger, mint and basil cool things down. A touch of hoisin sauce gives you just enough sweetness to balance it all out.
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This homemade sunflower seed butter is accented with a blizzard of cinnamon and a slather of vanilla bean paste. It’s a dream on your favorite toasted bread.
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An assertively spiced departure from a favorite Suzanne Goin potato gratin recipe. This is a rustic, deeply flavorful late-summer gratin made with sliced tomatoes, potatoes, caramelized onions, curry powder, and a kick of red chile flakes.
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If you love the vibe and flavor of classic cream of mushroom soup, but want to skip the overabundance of heavy cream used in many recipes, you’re in the right spot. This version brings all the nostalgia you love, but uses nuts to deliver the rich, creamy texture. It works beautifully, and the soup is such an all-star. Give it a try!
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For anyone wanting to work more sprouts into their meals, this is one of the best salads I’ve made in a long time. It includes mung bean sprouts, avocado, arugula, yogurt, and toasted almonds. So many good ingredients and incredibly tasty!
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Cauliflower dialed all the way up on the spice front like this tastes great. Inspired by a recipe in Reza Mahammad’s cookbook, caramelized onions, cumin, ginger, garlic, sesame seeds and chiles are all in play. They create fragrant magic, turning this cauliflower recipe into an all-star – just read the comments!
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This blended vegetable soup is a delicious delivery vehicle for a range of hearty vegetables. If you have onions, potatoes, carrots, and broccoli to use up, this is a great option. A soup that is a unfussy as it gets, easily adaptable as well.
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A vibrant tempeh curry recipe loosely inspired by a recipe from Lora Zarubin’s cookbook, I am Almost Always Hungry.
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A palak daal recipe from Kasa’s Anamika Khanna – a hearty pot of spinach, lentils, and spices. Kasa is a favorite Indian restaurant in San Francisco.
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If you haven’t tried grilled fava beans, you must! You can make them on a grill or in a grill pan. Toss them out onto a newspaper where people can dive in and make a bit of a mess with the pods and skins.
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A wonderful kimchi soup inspired by a bowl of fiesty, fiery, brothy cabbage soup I had years ago at Namu Gaji in San Francisco.
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This is a fantastic way to enjoy broccolini resulting in a big bowl of green! The broccolini is tossed with big croutons, lots of sliced scallions, mozzarella, toasted almonds, and a hit of serrano pepper.
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Coated in a silky, garlic-spiked, miso butter, these citron noodles are a celebration of spring produce. Fava beans and citron zest mingle with the pasta, crunchy furikake joins the party, then everything gets a feisty chili crisp finish.
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Crepes don’t have to be difficult! Once you master this basic crepe recipe you can make perfect sweet or savory crepes on a whim.
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Homemade onion powder is a fantastic way to minimize waste and put the tops of spring onions, leeks, and scallions to good use. You can use it as a simple seasoning or to transform everything from ranch dressing to compound butters. It’s the perfect finishing touch for salads, grain bowls, and so many pastas.
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This one-pot, garganelli pasta is an easy weeknight win. It’s pasta and lentils simmered in crushed tomatoes and finished with lots of chopped kale, saffron, swirls of tahini and chopped almonds.
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