A food blog by Carolyn Cope
From the category archives:
Eggplants growing off the hook? We’ve got you covered with an umami-packed recipe for eggplant caponata and seventeen million other tips and recipes (count ‘em!) on how to make the most of your haul. Tonight I’m serving the caponata and crumbled fresh goat cheese baked on a whole wheat pizza crust.
What’s a cucuzza? I thought I was a competent Italian-American, but then I saw my first cucuzza at the not-so-tender age of 33, and suddenly I knew. I have a LOT to learn. Do you know from cucuzza? Learn more, and get a tasty, family-friendly recipe for baked cucuzza “fries.”
Easy, flexible recipe (more like a formula, really) for a healthy, delicious grain salad that uses up all your leftover and misfit veggies.
In the crisper this week, 10 tips for declaring your food independence. They’re small, they’re easy, and most of them are fun, I promise.
With summer officially here, it won’t be long before vegabundance sends us scrambling for new ways to prepare old favorites. Get excited about these five vegetables that can switch hit in sweet or savory dishes with the best of them.
In the crisper this week, 10 small ways to love the food you’re with this summer. Support the sustainable food movement by enjoying what you eat, and before you know it you’ll be drunk on heady seasonality like Ruth Bourdain is high on pixie tangerine zest.
In the crisper this week, don’t mistake lettuce’s crisp demeanor for prudishness. Get her on the grill or in the soup pot, or bring out her saucy side, and you’ll find yourself asking, “Oh! Where’d you learn to do that?” Recipes for lettuce soup, lettuce sauce and grilled salad.
Got scapes? These glorious shoots, which sprout above the ground from hardneck varieties of garlic, are some of my favorite crazy-lady vegetables. Learn what to do with them on Serious Eats.
Simply making an appearance at your local farmers’ market is a great first step toward a healthy and rewarding way of eating. Buy a few things each week and you’re halfway there. But if you’re really looking to make the most of your experience, try these 10 simple tips.
This week in the crisper, Serious Eaters share their thoughts on how to move beyond guacamole if you’re ever lucky enough to be flush with avocados. Some of the ideas are good enough that I’ve started looking into real estate in California. Get inspired, and share your own inspiration.
After several years managing and writing about CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture), my top 10 tips and tricks for making the most of your CSA share, farmers’ market haul or garden bounty without letting it overwhelm you.
Where chiles rellenos are concerned, nothing beats the real thing. But if you’d rather spend a lovely spring evening on the patio, these chiles “resemblos” are a delicious, satisfying and somewhat leaner alternative.
Quick recipe for grilled spring onions.
Everyone’s been talking about ramps (sometimes called wild leeks) for the past handful of Springs. Now the ramps themselves have a chance to weigh in, and they present a recipe for pasta with ramps, spinach and sopressata, too.
Easy, no-cook recipe for strawberry vanilla agua fresca, a perfectly refreshing, barely sweet warm-weather drink.
Recipe for a beautiful springtime salad of dandelion greens, strawberries and balsamic-caramelized onions.
Easy recipe for marinated, grilled asparagus with buttery toasted breadcrumbs.
Recipe for homemade Caesar dressing you can shake up in a jar and store in the fridge for a week.
Easy recipe for braised red cabbage with apples, apple cider and cider vinegar.
Parsnips are often relegated to purées and braises, but they work wonders in sweet dishes, too. Easy recipe for Parsnip Spice Cake adapted from Jill Silverman Hough in Bon Appétit.
Easy recipe for mushrooms flambéed in brandy cream sauce.
Simple recipe for Apple, Goat Cheese and Honey tartlets with puff pastry adapted from Bon Appetit Magazine.
Is it a crisper or a mailbox? This week in the crisper, a letter from the law offices of Brussels, Sprout and Cruciferg, and a recipe for luscious cream-braised brussels sprouts adapted from Molly Stevens by way of Molly Wizenberg. Recipe here.
Easy recipe for chili-dusted roasted cauliflower with cilantro-lime dressing.
Recipe for classic Warm Spinach and Artichoke Dip. Perfect for the Super Bowl or any casual party.
Recipe for a salad of winter greens (escarole, chicory and Belgian endive) with an olive vinaigrette and warm marinated goat cheese croutons.
Easy, no-cook recipe for banana peanut butter smoothies made with soy milk. A delicious and nutritious breakfast or after-school snack.
Easy no-cook recipe for a Mexican-inspired salad of jicama, black beans, corn and avocado. A great buffet offering or healthy weeknight meal.
In the crisper this week, a classic French cooking technique demystified. Glazing is a quick and easy way to turn your humble root vegetables from rags to riches. Recipe here.
In the Crisper on Serious Eats this week, Stracciatella alla Romana (Italian egg droup soup) with spinach. Lightning-fast, healthy recipe.
People, broccoli stems are meant to be eaten. Recipe for a coarse purée of Long-Cooked Broccoli adapted from Alice Waters’ The Art of Simple Food.
Easy recipe for cider-poached pork tenderloin with fennel, carrot and apple slaw.
Wondering what to do with leftover Thanksgiving turkey? This week in the crisper, Umami Girl goes spa-like with a healthy and delicious turkey salad with pomegranate and pistachios.
This week on Serious Eats, The Crisper Whisperer showcases a spiced cranberry chutney for your Holiday table adapted from the Williams-Sonoma Complete Entertaining Cookbook.
Now that Sweet Potato is a sophomore in college, she’s not all marshmallows and syrup anymore. Easy recipe here.
This easy, elegant and reasonably healthful dessert of quick-poached Asian pears with whipped cream highlights one of the season’s loveliest fruits. Plus, it practically cooks itself while you eat dinner.
Easy vegetarian recipe for lasagna with acorn or other winter squash and a velvety béchamel sauce.
The Crisper Whisperer on Serious Eats this week features a divine Radicchio Salad from the Zuni Cafe Cookbook.
Recipe for a creamy, vegan gingered butternut squash soup from The Crisper Whisperer on Serious Eats.
Easy, healthy recipe for homemade apple-pear sauce to use up your aging beauties.
The Hasbrouk-Gibson ancient family recipe for pumpkin bread made with olive oil. It’s truly exceptional.
This week on The Crisper Whisperer, a shrimp, spinach and Swiss cheese wrap sandwich inspired by the now defunct but eternally curious FOOD 3663 in Hoboken, NJ.
A quick, healthy and easy Escarole and Bean Soup with Pistachio Pesto with a deep flavor that belies its simplicity.
In this week’s Crisper Whisperer, Quick Tortilla Soup with tomatillos to accommodate your crisper’s odds and ends.
This week in The Crisper Whisperer, an adaptation of The Silver Palate Cookbook’s famous zucchini bread recipe using whatever summer squash you have—even hairy gourd.
This week in The Crisper Whisperer, a riff on the classic French remoulade salad using kohlrabi. Like the vegetable itself, it’s just a touch assertive.
This week in the crisper, what is purported to be the world’s best quiche. Recipe, adapted from Ruhlman’s Ratio, here.
I am very excited to announce the debut of my new column The Crisper Whisperer on Serious Eats. Every Tuesday, I’ll help you cook through seasonal veggie surplus—or make the most of off-season vegetal monotony—with ease. This week, an introduction, and zucchini-corn fritters. Recipe here.
All contents of this website, except where otherwise attributed, are copyright 2008-2010 Carolyn Cope. All Rights Reserved.
Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme from DIYthemes.
