Cut Your Consumption: Energy-wise Cooking
Are you a mindful cook? Sure, sourcing locally and sustainably produced foods can make a world of difference in your health and can also help to reduce the environmental costs of long-transported...
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3 Unconventional Ways to Fight the Flu
Cold and flu season has already hit – and it seems early. My coworkers have been sniffling, sneezing and hacking their way through the workday since late last week. And while my first line of...
View Article1 Chicken, 5 Meals: How I Justify a $30 Broiler
Let’s face it: good food costs good money. In my area, a nice pasture-raised broiler fetches between $4 and $5 / lb. I count my stars that it’s this low considering that some national retailers of...
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Voodoo Stock: Chicken Feet & Chili Peppers
Chicken feet – gnarly, repulsive and disturbing – make for the very best stock. Devoid of little else but tendons, bone and cartilage (sound appetizing yet?), chicken feet produce a fine golden broth...
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Chipotle Chile, Black Bean and Chicken Soup
Black bean soup – warm, spicy, brimming with chicken, beans and vegetables – is a dish that everyone can appreciate. There’s nothing quite like a nourishing black bean soup on a cold winter’s...
View ArticleFresh Chicken Broth: Achieving a Solid Gel
A good stock is the backbone of a good kitchen; it provides flavor to your dishes as well as sustenance and nourishment for your body. Broth features in the traditional foods of peoples across the...
View ArticleA Recipe: Minimalist Roast Chicken
Easy roast chicken, using the most minimal of ingredients and techniques, has found its way into our kitchen more than once in the past month. When time is limited, as it has been for our family...
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a recipe: potato & swiss chard frittata
Frittatas with fresh herbs or seasonal vegetables are a main-stay of our diet, and we often serve them on the weekend for a late breakfast or early brunch. In the summertime, we serve them with fresh...
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slowcooker chicken soup to soothe a weary soul
Slowcooker chicken soup can soothe a weary soul. These days mine is in desperate want of soothing. There are months when life seems to take the lead and you’re always just one step behind – months...
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A Look at Our Food Budget
The subject of money comes up a lot, especially for those real food newbies who are not quite sure how to make the transition from a standard American diet of prepackaged, convenience foods to...
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Savory-Roasted Chicken with Lemon, Garlic and Potatoes
Every Sunday I slow-roast a chicken. I truss the bird, dress it with herbs, olive oil and a generous sprinkling of salt and set it on a bed of vegetables – whichever I happen to have on hand. It’s a...
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Garam Masala Chicken Curry
My family is traveling this week, and I’ve asked Kimi Harris of The Nourishing Gourmet to step in and take my place while my husband and I take our little boy camping at the Grand Canyon. Her book...
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Pan-Roasted Chicken with Tarragon and Mustard Cream Sauce
It was a busy day, and I was up to my ears in emails. As the afternoon wore on into evening, my husband and I desperately needed to figure out dinner. That’s when I reached for a new book,...
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Thai-Style Chicken Soup with Lemongrass and Coconut Milk [Tom Kha Gai]
Tom Kah Gai is a traditional Thai soup. Chopped chicken thighs and shiitake mushrooms swim in a flavorful broth perfumed by ginger, shallots, lime, lemongrass and chile peppers. Deeply aromatic, its...
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Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup
Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup is nothing like the pale, gloopy, gravy-like mess that comes out of a can; rather, it’s an utterly delightful, soothing and rich-flavored soup dotted with fresh...
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Honey Harissa Chicken with Germinated Brown Rice Pilaf
I enjoyed some of the best food of my life in my early twenties, traveling through Morocco. With little money in my pocket, I ate where and what I could afford. I’d cook from the markets with...
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Green Chile Chicken Chili
Using fermented vegetables in meal preparation is as easy as opening a can of vegetables or a bag of frozen vegetables except that your food is alive, nutrient-dense, and you know what went into it....
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Yucatan Lime Soup
This recipe for Lime Soup, one of my favorites and something that appears on my kitchen table every few months, is from my second cookbook: Broth and Stock. I developed it after tasting bowl after...
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Pho Ga (Vietnamese-Style Chicken Noodle Soup)
Every Tuesday, we stop by a local Vietnamese restaurant where I order pho ga – that ethereally fragrant brothy soup that’s filled with wonderfully tender rice noodles, thinly sliced chicken, herbs,...
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Chicken Bone Broth
Comforting and luxuriously savory, a bowl full of clear, straw-colored chicken bone broth is powerful medicine and wonderfully satiating. What’s better, though, is that broth is also easy to make, and...
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