Fava Beans with Leeks and Lacey Parmesan Cheese Crisps

Fava beans are one of my very favorite vegetables, or rather, vegetations. Like grapes  and fennel, favas are a “nose-

Limes Verse III: Pickled Limes with Roasted Carrots

When it’s full-tilt lime season, a healthy tree produces almost more fruit than you can imagine using. You can whip up a lime pie (March 21, 2013) or an

Lime Curd Coconut Meringue Pie in Macadamia Nut Crust

Sometime in late February to early March each year, when our backyard plum tree blossoms forth with showy vigor, we gather with friends to celebrate the advent of spring under its thirty foot-broad

The Loveliness of Limes, in Three Verses with Recipes

The first verse is about Avocado Lime Cream. It’s early March and, odd as it may seem, both avocados and limes are in season. So are shellfish. Here’s a sneak preview of a way they’re put together in my next cookbook, Bold (co-authored with Susanna Hoffman, Workman, November, 2013).

Gobi: An Indian Way with Cauliflower

The gobi dish pictured in this recipe is another culinary pentimento (see my 7/23/12 post on food remembrances). Let me explain:

Beef Stew with Toasted Walnuts, Garlic, and Dressed Parsley

A great thing about seasonal foods is that just when you’re bemoaning the end of one season, not ready for a change, up pop the provisions for the

Grape Mostarda

Casting about for a way to glamorize a turkey preparation, my gaze fell upon a bunch of plump, seeded purple grapes I had purchased at the farmers’ market. I like the seeded varieties for their winy flavor

Ribier grapes with mustard seeds and peppercorns. Other suitable purple seeded grapes for mostarda are Concords, the grape of Welch’s juice and American grape jelly, and Zantes, also called champagne grapes (left whole because they’re quite small).
Photos by Rick Wise