Pappardelle can lift an ordinary pasta meal right up into the extraordinary. These flat, broad ribbons are a wonderful base for holding on to chunky sauces, which, I thought, would make it a ...
Whole-Wheat Gnocchi with Sundried Tomato Pesto
We all love pasta, don't we? It's one of the easiest meals to fix on a hurried weeknight. Boil a box of pasta, whip up a quick tomato sauce, fix a salad, and you have a meal that's not only quite ...
Orzo with Cherry Tomatoes
My vegetable garden got off to a late start this year because I was in India during the spring when I'd have normally started working on it. As a result, it is only in the past couple of weeks that I ...
Vegan Basil Pizza
Who doesn't love pizza, and we vegans are no different. But it can be a little harder for us to order takeout because even vegetarian pizza is usually covered wall to wall with thick gobs of ...
Pasta with Edamame Pesto
Two foods I long ago fell in love with - irrevocably- are pesto and hummus. I play around a lot with each, and usually just a slight tweak of ingredients throws up new and delightful flavors. And ...
Mushroom Barley Risotto
Risotto is a labor of love. Cooking rice, in my kitchen, usually means bunging it into a pressure cooker or a saucepan with liquid and letting it steam away all by itself for a few minutes until it ...
Pasta with Dill Artichoke Pesto
With a unique flavor that dances on your tongue hours after a meal, Dill is perhaps one of the most potent herbs out there, and one of my favorites. In Bombay, where I grew up, we ate it ...