Vegetarian – Page 7

A Locavore’s Perfect Weekday Pasta

September 16, 2009 Comments Off

Orecchiette and Broccoli Rabe with Cherry Tomatoes Opposites attract. And so today, as summer meets early fall, I’m celebrating the play of sweet and bitter. This dish pairs broccoli rabe, a tangy relative of the turnip, with candy-like cherry tomatoes. They mingle happily on neutral turf — orecchiette, a pasta translated as “little ears,” which […]

Applesauce to clean by…

September 13, 2009 Comments Off

I hate to clean, don’t you? Smell, and so naturally taste is my most alert sense. So, I find it helps to clean to the simmering of something fragrant. This year our apple tree, bought when we escaped Manhattan, finally yielded a great crop. They’re funky, of course, because of the rain and lack of […]

Tangy apples and corn pudding

September 11, 2009 Comments Off

So the apple season has arrived — crisp and tart, mouth puckering. I try to resist the early apples, because they don’t have that biting fall flavor, but rather Paula Reds do the trick. If anyone is out there yet, let me know what varieties do it for you…. Tomorrow I’m going to a friend’s […]