Vegetarian Recipes
Mushroom Duxelles in Puff Pastry
If you don’t know, duxelles is just French for “mushrooms cooked down into paste”. Mushroom paste? Blech. No wonder they made up a fancy-sounding word for it. But it is yummy if you’re into mushrooms. If you’re not, I completely understand because I have hated mushrooms my whole life until very recently when I…
Read MoreSweet Potato Breakfast Tacos
We’re getting the adventures started early this season! You know I have a fascination with food trucks and trailers. There’s something about the entrepreneurship behind them, the ingenuity in their design, the fact that you can DRIVE them, and the hot and sweaty working conditions that just drive me WILD. Usually the food’s pretty good,…
Read MoreI Got Press! And Zucchini Casserole!
Happy Friday! I have a bajillion things to do this weekend (like recipe creation and testing for my next book!) but I wanted to let you know about this really nice article that came out last week in CultureMap Austin. And I don’t want to say that the reason author Leah Moss was so kind…
Read MoreJalapeño Quiche
Hey. Guess where I got to go? Guess where I got to go and sit on a private verandah? Guess where I got to go and hijack a kitchen and steal a top-secret recipe? San Antonio, baby! The coolest of all the cool bed and breakfast owners on the planet invited me to their swank…
Read MoreVegetarian Borscht
A couple weeks ago I had the extreme pleasure of visiting Johnson’s Backyard Garden and getting a tour of the farm. I got to pull up beets right out of the ground and eat them in the fields under the sun. It was glorious. I met Brenton, who started the farm with his family in…
Read MoreMashed Potatoes Recipe
I ate a lot of mashed potatoes as a kid. Not unusual, I am sure. But one thing that was maybe unusual in these Modern Tymes was actually growing the potatoes ourselves. The funnest part was harvesting them. It’s like finding pirate’s booty that you can eat! Working my little fingers into warm earth and pulling up…
Read MoreSpanakopita
I had my super-special friend Laurel from Trophy Boutique come over to show me how to make spanakopita, thereby showing y’all how to make it, too. The idea is that chicks dig this shit and we ought to know because we are chicks. It has vegetables in it and it requires purchasing (and knowing how…
Read MorePotato Soup Recipe
I guess it’s the same as potato chowder? I’m not really sure what the difference would be since all potato soup recipes I’ve ever seen have cream or milk in them, which makes them chowders, too. So it seems they are the same thing. But then again, not all chowders have milk or cream. The…
Read MorePasta Primavera
Okay, people. This is a real kitchen-sink kind of deal. Pretty much just throw in whatever vegetables you have around and viola: Pasta Primavera! Which means, like, Springtime Pasta, which means, like, bright colors and light textures and fresh flavors and baby birds all over the damn place. I love Spring. I love colors and…
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