Webb Farm arugula

First it was sorrel, and now it’s arugula — a greens theme seems to be developing around here. Perhaps it’s because summer is winding down and the market stalls will soon be laden…

Sorrel soup, or schav

Italian parsley and young arugula in downy bunches, elastics wrapped around their stems. Stacks of pointy-leafed mint, variegated lemon thyme, and slender chives creating a landscape of fragrant green pyramids. Soft, pillowy bags of…

Causa limeña: savoury Peruvian potato torte

In my autobiography, April 2006 through July 2006 will be known as “The Dark Period.”

I don’t remember what I ate during The Dark Period. More than that, I don’t remember eating…

Puckery, garlicky, spicy pickled asparagus*

I know it’s not exactly Friday today. But in order to bring you this Friday snippet of food fun, I actually had to pickle the asparagus first, which is a weekend job. I…

Sweet corn soup shooters

Here’s the scene: People are arriving at your cocktail party on an icy January evening. The biting wind has driven the temperature down to a frigid –20°C. Guests unwind scarves from their necks, shake…

Zucchini blossoms in my Aunt Janice’s garden

These bright beauties may look like regular ol’ zucchini blossoms, but they’re special. In my aunt’s backyard garden, these blossoms are now yielding Costata Romanesco zucchini, an Italian heirloom varietal that…

Garlic scape pesto

Your instructions: Bookmark Dorie Greenspan’s recipe for garlic scape pesto and promise me you’ll make it when scapes come back into season next spring.

Sorry, basil pesto. You’re dead to me.

Pizza with spring toppings and fontina

I choose to view the last year and eight months as a lesson in simplicity, in determining life’s essentials from its frills. As it happens, having a full-sized oven is a frill,…

Curried chicken chowder

Chowder. It’s not quite soup and not quite stew. So what is it?

Enter the Oxford Companion to Food, which tells me that in fact, chowder is thought to be named after the…

Title: Vegetable Love
Author: Barbara Kafka
Extent: 720 pp
Publisher: Artisan (a division of Workman Publishing)
Publication Date: 4 October 2005

The Gist: Subtitled “Vegetables delicious alone, or with pasta, seafood, poultry,…