Roasted Acorn Squash Salad with Wheat Berries and Blue Cheese

Acorn squash skins are quite leathery and the cooked flesh will pop out of it as you cut the wedges. Use a butter-knife to help separate the skin and flesh if needed.
Continue reading >>Improv Cassoulet

There are so many things I love about cassoulet … one of them being its versatility. Be creative with your leftovers–beans, roasted meat, stale bread–and see what it becomes.
Continue reading » »Pear, Goat Cheese and Prosciutto Panini

Think of this as an upscale cousin to the average Joe grilled cheese, and as a perfect pair with creamy soups. Feel free to mix up the cheese; I like to add a generous grind of pepper on top of the pears before topping too. You can use any type of pear you like, but…
Continue reading » »Crispy Mashed Potato Cakes

I’ve always wanted a recipe like this, and I spent some time perfecting it. Would it be better to coat the cakes in panko? I wondered. It turned out to be too much trouble, and didn’t make the cakes that much crispier. What if I sprinkled cheese on the outside to make a crisp, savory crust? Nope. That didn’t add as much punch as I’d expected. This straightforward recipe–it takes just a few minutes to pull together–yielded the best results, and will be one I go back to again and again. I hope you do too.
Continue reading » »Peanut-Sweet Potato Soup

Strangely enough, peanuts and sweet potatoes make a great pair. Between the warm fall hues of this soup and the crisp, bright flavors of the Fennel-Apple Salad accompanying it (get the recipe in the Nourish Weekly Menus archive), this meal is truly a feast for the senses.
1 tablespoon peanut oil
1 cup onion, diced…
Sausage and Grape Skewers

This recipe, my slightly off-kilter ode to harvest, was adapted from Micol Negrin’s gem of a book, The Italian Grill.
Continue reading » »Melone e Limone

This simple salad is the PERSONIFICATION of how stunning and delicious peak-of-season produce can be.
Continue reading » »Swiss Chard with Grated Garlic

This is my new go-to green dish. I can literally go from picking chard from the garden to getting this on the table in under 10 minutes.
Continue reading » »Improvised Lentil Soup with Bacon and Juniper Berries

Lentil soup is easy to improvise on a chilly night. Even better, it’s hearty enough to serve as a main dish.
Continue reading » »Shaved Celeriac, Radish and Pecorino Salad with Pomegranates and White Truffle Vinaigrette

A handful of well-chosen ingredients yields a salad that’s light and bright yet earthy and wintery.
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