Nobody’s Perfect, but This Baked Brown Rice Pilaf Comes Pretty Close
Last night I was poking around on Chowhound’s home cooking message board and came across a lively discussion of baked brown rice. Baking my brown ...
Mains, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Recipes
Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower, Figs, and Mint
Lately I’ve noticed a rush of cauliflower recipes on food blogs—likely because we’re in the throes of a seemingly endless winter and we’re ...
Baking, Nutritious Nibbles, Snack, Weight Watchers
Cereality, for Real (Cherry-Chocolate Oatmeal Squares)
An email arrived this morning from A, an old publishing colleague who’s been freelancing with another old colleague at Cereality Cereal Bar and Cafes, the ...
Beef Barley Soup
I’m not much of a beef eater. If you’ve been reading Words to Eat By at all regularly, you may have noticed a distinct lack of ...
Nap-Friendly Recipes, Recipes, Soup
Is My Blog Burning? Farro & White Bean Soup with Escarole
Ahh, the humble bean. What ingredient is more disparaged, yet more versatile? Sure, you might get a little, umm, musical after, but isn’t it ...
Jew Food, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Sides, Vegetarian
Madeleines, Shmadeleines: Kasha Varnishkes
“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile ...
Jew Food, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Soup
Mushroom Barley Soup
This is another recipe I grew up with, and when the weather turns cool it’s one of my favorite—and easiest—things to make. It’s from an English ...
Breakfast, Pantry Cooking, Recipes
Who Wants Some Hot Oatmeal Pancakes?
It’s bleary out today, cold and grey and forbidding. Nothing better to do on such a morning than hunker down over a warm stack of hearty, ...
Baking, Breakfast, Nutritious Nibbles, Snack
Healthy Banana-Chocolate-Pecan Bread
In looking back over my posts (boy, they’re adding up already, aren’t they?) I realized that yesterday’s SHF cupcakes was my first baking recipe. That is ...
Pantry Cooking, Soup, Vegetarian
Lentil & Brown Rice Soup
Now, I love epicurious as much as the next person. But in all honesty, I generally use it as a resource for ideas, as opposed ...