The Meal

Roasted Poblano Hot Sauce

For me, no pepper holds a candle to the flavor of a roasted poblano. That said, thee roasting process is labor-intensive enough that I am rarely in the mood to add roasted poblano to a dish. But I think I’ve found a solution. With a hot sauce I can pack all that roasting and peeling […]

Roasted Beet Bruschetta

Any way in which I attempt to open this post will pale beside the words of Tom Robbins as he opens his book Jitterbug perfume, so I am going to allow him to lead us out: “The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the […]

Wild Greens Omelette

I have an interesting history with omelettes. For a long time I was convinced that I simply could not eat them. There is something about eggs that have been cooked a little too long that makes my stomach turn. I need a moist scrambled egg, and all too often I find that omelettes are heavily […]

Purslane

My garden is chock full of weeds right now. I recognize a handful of them, but many are a mystery to me. For example, a few days ago someone noted on one of my instagram posts that a weed in the background was Purslane, a plant that I was not familiar with. Apparently it is […]