Question: I am looking for good, super flexible budget-friendly dishes. A friend mentioned risotto. My store was sold out of the usual rice to make it. Can I make it with other rice? What other things can I substitute? There are only two of us, so what can I do with the … [Read more...] about Recipe: How to Make Risotto
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Recipe: Salade Niçoise
I first encountered Salade Niçoise in a most embarrassing way -- by reading about it in a cheap romance novel. The salad appeared in a typically evocative of a dime store read. A beautiful protagonist perched at a table under a striped umbrella on an immaculate beach in Cannes … [Read more...] about Recipe: Salade Niçoise
Shrimp Pasta with Tarragon & Wilted Greens
A small, tiny pot inspired this shrimp pasta. It started as just a tiny container from a local nursery. Then, like something out of a 1950s horror film, by August last summer, my French tarragon grew into a green tendril monster on the patio of my Seattle home. On a chilly … [Read more...] about Shrimp Pasta with Tarragon & Wilted Greens
Eat Better and Waste Less Food in 2024
I have one word to sum up the past few years - Kuchisabishii. It's Japanese for "eating when you’re not hungry but you eat because your mouth is lonely." My mouth would get so lonely starting in March 2020 so often that I gained 20 pounds of pandemic weight. Is there a word … [Read more...] about Eat Better and Waste Less Food in 2024
Recipe: Easy, Versatile Lentil Soup
I fell in love with lentil soup out of a sense of obligation. On a cold winter day on an early trip to Paris, I stepped inside a small bistro to get out of a frigid winter mist. Why ever did I book a trip to France in January, I wondered? Shivering and cold, all I thought I … [Read more...] about Recipe: Easy, Versatile Lentil Soup
