On one side, there's a yogurt panna cotta. Sweet, slightly tart, grainy with an entire vanilla pod (pod and all) whizzed in. The other side is a cranberry gelee. Barely sweetened, very tart, with the pop of those barely stewed cranberries that are...
Read MoreOpen Sesame Beets
Never mind the ubiquity of beet and goat cheese salads. Beets are still regarded warily. Like many food fears, this is likely an issue of 1) history, and 2) texture. Beets can take a long time to cook, and they make a literal bloody mess, so maybe...
Read MoreCherry Grape Balsamic Compote
I may have a thing for the sour. I drink apple cider vinegar on the rocks. I had to stop sucking on lime wedges because they were eating away the enamel of my teeth. I gelatinized pickle juice because it's socially unacceptable to drink it out of ...
Read MoreCaramelized Onion & Mustard Green Yogurt Dip
The green one is the opener. The hearty one is the closer. The creamy oniony one? That's always the star. Caramelized onion has everything going for it. Through prolonged heat, the onion loses its bite and sweetens. Its aroma with beckon and taunt...
Read MoreBroccoli Basil Parmesan Dip
Behold the broccoli basil parmesan dip, which I served at my 28th Birthday Party along with a caramelized onion, mustard green, walnut yogurt dip and a kabocha miso dip. (More on those later.) My dip philosophy is to have something green, somethin...
Read MoreKefir Cantaloupe Shake
Dieting is a bad word. But after the Bermuda cruise, the New York State Fair, and two back-to-back meals at Dinosaur BBQ, a girl's gotta make some adjustments. Kefir has like a zillion active organisms in it. If you get the good stuff from a farme...
Read MoreSuperfood Frozen Yogurt
Julian is working on clerkship applications. No need to be jealous! It is actually not that fun. So I made him this dessert, because I want to help the guy out, but am of zero use in editing legal stuff. It's a dessert that has it both ways. It's ...
Read MoreKale & Carrot Salad with Parmesan Walnut Dressing
What would a rabbit like as his accompanying side dish? What can I fit into my work and social life? How can I use up this walnut oil? These are not rhetorical questions.On Friday, I’ll be making a Braised Rabbit with Whole Grain Mustard, Shallots...
Read MoreRaspberry Rose Sorbet with Litchi Yogurt Cream // A Cold Ispahan
Ice cream is typically not a place for subtlety. Cold dulls taste. That's why ice cream is perfect, and melted ice cream cloying. Ice creams are also seemingly designed for bold flavors -- chocolate chip cookie dough, butter pecan, rum raisin. Or ...
Read MoreNeo-Neopolitan Strawberry-Vanilla Frozen Yogurt with Cacao Nibs
Day before tax day and what do you want? This is my version of a nostalgic Neopolitan. Voila, frozen strawberries, whole vanilla bean and Greek yogurt, spinkled with cacao nibs. This tasted remarkably like the classic, pink-white-brown version, bu...
Read MoreMiso swirled with Gingered Pear Frozen Yogurt
It's not all berries and mangoes here. Wanted to get a little more experimental. This is pears poached in leftover pinot grigio and ginger, whizzed with frozen yogurt (literally, yogurt frozen in a covered ice tray), and swirled with miso paste. A...
Read MoreArtichoke & caramelized onion yogurt dip
This was inspired by the artichoke dip at Freeman's, which is reportedly made with a base of mayo and parmesan. Though that dip is really amazing, I think it's probably uncessarily heavy for tonight. So I caramelized some onions, adding a differen...
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