Tag Archives: vegetables
Mark Bittman’s Food Matters Recipes
We are thrilled to announce that Plummelo.com now has three exclusive recipes from Mark Bittman’s new cookbook. The Food Matters Cookbook is Mark Bittman’s essential guidebook to healthful, planet-friendly cooking, with more than 500 recipes to help you eat more … Continue reading
What to Do with Cauliflower
With so many vegetables convenience-packaged these days, I am willing to bet that most of the time you walk right by the rows of heads at the market. Heads of iceberg lettuce, heads of broccoli, heads of cauliflower. They all … Continue reading
Do the Salsa
This has been my go-to salsa formula for almost 11 years. It originally appeared in The Martha Stewart Cookbook, published in 1995, and it has been reprinted in her various other publications and used on her show many, many times. … Continue reading
Swine Dining: A City Girl Cooks Country (Cucumbers)
Sometimes I wish Tim had a rewind button. Something I could push after he blurts something so hilarious that we’re both falling off our stools, or to hit when something incendiary escapes without any editing. Something to replay the lines … Continue reading
Recipe Review: Veggies, Veggies Everywhere
Zucchini and Squash Pasta with Sweet Italian Sausage and Pappardelle It’s past mid summer, and the zucchini and squash are rolling in everywhere. I’m getting four to six per week in my farm share, friends’ gardens are overflowing with them, … Continue reading
Cooking from the Carpool Lane: My Dirty, Happy CSA Share
Did you know that vegetables are grown in soil? Real, actual, dirty soil? With like… dirt in it? Me, either. Until now, even my most expensive, organic vegetables have made their way to my house with few traces of the … Continue reading
A Week of … Cool and Crunchy Salads
Today I’m ending the dinner rut. This happens more than you’d think. I get stuck on the same old recipes (or non-recipes, just throwing things together), or lately I’ve blamed it on the heat. We order takeout. What, sushi’s healthy! … Continue reading
A Vegetable Gawker Confesses
You know when you’ve finally overtaken the leaden feet in the apple aisle and elbowed your way into the groping masses at the avocado pile before rounding the last bend in fruit and produce, and suddenly it seems like it … Continue reading
The Good, The Bad, and the Eggplant
Quick, name the first three eggplant recipes that come to your mind. Go on! I’ll give you a minute. OK? Let’s compare lists: Baba ghanoush, I bet you got that one! That’s the smoky-sweet Middle Eastern dip made with roasted … Continue reading
From the Editor
Swine Dining
Cooking from the Carpool Lane