lamb tagine with apricots & olives
Tagines (and I mean the cooking vessel here, not the dish made therein) are the kind of cookware you come across in the store or on a friend’s wedding registry and you picture yourself hosting a dinner...
View Articlelemon parmesan raw kale salad
This weekend I had a lesson about the things food cannot do. Sometimes, no matter how many pancakes, or sweet apples, or pieces of homemade fried chicken and coconut pie there are, things are going to...
View Articlerainbow carrot salad with mâche & toasted pepitas
Over on Instagram, I like to share a lot of our family meals that don’t make it to the blog. As we’ve said before, not every meal we eat is picture perfect, but it’s real and tasty, and mostly, our...
View Articleroasted black radish and grape quinoa
Sometimes seasonal food writing, here on the east coast especially, feels like a tour of the very homeliest food stuffs; and among the rutabagas, parsnips, jerusalem artichokes, celery roots, cabbages,...
View Articlegetting here + asparagus ribbon salad with dried cherries
Ever since our enormous Penske rolled out of Brooklyn at 11:30pm on a Saturday night, our lives have been something just shy of complete chaos. I’ve been traveling back and forth to NYC over the past...
View Article(best ever) jalapeño pimento cheese
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I’m pretty sure I’ve perfected pimento cheese. Now, if you’re one of pimento’s many detractors and the thought of it cues images of some anemic peach stuff served on a...
View Articlegrilled radishes with mint & lime
As CSA shares get underway this year, I know one thing for certain: you are swimming in radishes. And sure, for the first few bunches it’s a delight to cut them up and eat them on the spot with bread...
View Articlepotato lime salad
We got some sad news this week and that’s why things have been quieter than usual around here. I wasn’t planning to post at all this week, but last night, this simple potato salad was so easy and...
View Articlebaked eggs in tomatoes
August? Already? This summer has been too busy for my liking, and so this month we’re looking to slow things way down. Current plans include: swimming, lazing in the sun, eating outdoors, catching...
View Articlesmoked pork shoulder with molasses barbecue sauce
As apartment-dwellers grilling with a tiny grill on the balcony of a building we knew from personal experience to be flammable, our adventures in charcoal were limited to things that could be cooked...
View Articleshaved brussels sprout and carrot salad with cara cara, avocado, and orange...
Not so long ago, I worked in an office. The kind with little cubes and a computer monitor too small to display the spreadsheets I needed to use and a chair hierarchy that provided peons like me a work...
View Articlepotage parmentier (potato leek soup) with toasted pepitas and herbs
Antoine-Auguste Parmentier, for whom potage Parmentier and a host of other potato dishes are named, is the rare agronomist whose life makes for an interesting read (George Washington Carver is another...
View Articlefeed a child, nourish a mind + curried sweet potato soup
My first Brooklyn apartment had a distant view of the Chrysler building. You had to climb out the kitchen window and stand on an adjacent roof to see it, but still it was there. Brian and I would sit...
View Articleloaded sweet potatoes with tangelos, avocado, and haloumi + healthier...
This post is sponsored by Knowledge Universe. Thanks for supporting Brooklyn Supper’s sponsors! Every week there’s a night where my deadlines combined with Brian’s work and an avalanche of homework or...
View Articleharukei turnip, radish, and bitter greens salad + real life
Let’s begin here: I hadn’t really meant to take a break from the blog, but it just kind of happened. At first, I was taking a little time to think about my blog and what it’s for. There are...
View Articlefig and cantaloupe salad with watercress and creamy garlic lime dressing
I decided I’d only worry about the garden through July. After that, I let it all surrender to the squash bugs, at least one groundhog, a few squirrels, possibly a deer, and powdery mildew and blight of...
View Articleroasted vegetable salad with garlic dressing and toasted pepitas {a guest...
Let’s make it official, shall we fall? We’re kicking off the beginning of jacket season with a roasted everything salad featuring garden carrots, plus CSA chard, beets, and garlic. My friend Sherrie...
View Articleroasted golden beet and turnip salad with green goddess dressing
Certain winter vegetables feel like they are only for the most devoted seasonal eaters, with turnips and rutabagas at the top of the list. Ugly, with radish-y undertones, it’s not surprising these...
View Articletoasted barley with arugula pesto and sausage coins
This post is sponsored by Wolf. Thanks for supporting our sponsors! We don’t need to be saints about eating good food. In the past, I thought that eating kale meant going full-throttle healthy and...
View Articleharukei turnip, radish, and bitter greens salad + real life
Let’s begin here: I hadn’t really meant to take a break from the blog, but it just kind of happened. At first, I was taking a little time to think about my blog and what it’s for. There are...
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