American Recipes

This week we continue with my Kabocha pumpkin themed Thanksgiving dinner. Often when you do something novel with a traditional dish, it involves some sort of sacrifice. You’re into it for a few bites because of its newness, but then you’re left craving your old favorite. This is not one of those dishes. In fact, [...]

Back in April of 2010, I got a call from Good Bite about contributing recipes to a cookbook they were working on. I’d just turned down a deal for my own cookbook, and wasn’t sure I wanted to tie myself up working on a book project.

If you’ve been reading this blog for long you know that I don’t do many desserts. This isn’t because I have anything against sweet things (in fact it’s quite the opposite). The fact of the matter is that desserts tend to take a lot longer to make, and when a sweet craving hits, I’m often [...]

With summer in full swing, most people who have planted a vegetable garden have more squash than they know what to do with. After going through the gamut from sautéed zucchini to zucchini bread one summer, I came up with these light delicious fritters that make for a great snack or the perfect canapé for [...]

While the season during which you can eat ramp greens has come and gone, the bulbs are edible through summer. As the summer progresses, the leaves become too tough to eat, but the bulbs continue to grow larger, making them perfect for pickling. When I first had a pickled ramp, the crispy onion like bulb [...]

Because the seafood at my local grocery store is often either too old, or too expensive I don’t buy a lot of fish. I do swing by the seafood counter between the produce and the cheese though because every now and then, they have something truly special. Today was one of those days. They had [...]

Aside from marking the end of the bitter cold winter and the sprouting of green stuff, there’s another reason why I love spring. It’s a transitional season where one season’s produce is winding down and the produce from the next season, first comes to market. Meyer lemon season for example runs from November through April, [...]

As a kid, my mom always cooked dinner at home from scratch, she wasn’t a fan of all the artificial colors and and flavors in packaged foods, and as a curious kid, I always wondered how other families ate. I’d get little glimpses of what meals were like on the other side when I’d hang [...]