This is a chopped salad for the Fall lovers. It is not juicy and creamy and full of the taste of easy Summer. It is crisp and crunchy, packed with slivered beets and apples, and bold of color and flavor. …
Seasonal: Autumn
Avocado Lime Pesto with Zucchini Noodles
This pesto is a nice sauce to add to your repertoire. It would go well with lots and lots of different bowls, if you’re into that kind of thing. Am I giving away too much of my California food bias if I find it hard to imagine a person who isn’t?
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Coconut Masala Chicken
Have you ever made your own spice paste for a curry? I would never have thought to do such a thing until I moved to the UK. My English family, and then my British housemates, introduced me to the amazingness you can achieve with your own home-made curry paste. For this coconut masala chicken, the spice paste has a fresh coconut base, and it is every bit as good as you are thinking it is.
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Carrot Tahini Soup
This carrot tahini soup is not your basic soup. It is complex. It warms you with tahini, turmeric, and cardamom. The sweet carrot mixes with tangy tamarind. Unfamiliar, but welcoming. And we all need more of that in the world right now.
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Avocado Chicken Salad
This avocado chicken salad is all about textural contrast. Crunchy almonds, creamy avocado, sweet grapes, tender chicken. It all comes together in this new take on an old classic.
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Fig and Pumpkin Seed Granola Bars
Applesauce Spice Cake
Leek, Celery, and Potato Soup
This soup is mild, and gentle, and there for you all week long in the fridge.
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Fig, Jalapeño, and Cauliflower Pizza
Green Rice Salad
I plan meals and recipes around portable lunches. A recipe that: fills us up at the end of the day, will keep until tomorrow, and is light enough to work for a quick lunch = recipe gold, and destined to see heavy rotation in our repertoire.
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