Meatless Monday
RECIPE: Fresh Cherry Tomatoes with Pasta
Serves 4 (unless you’re carbo-loading for a bike ride and then all bets are off) WHAT COULD BE SIMPLER than a dish...
Basia HellwigSeptember 11, 2010
Cherry Tomato Love
When you grow cherry tomatoes in the garden, very few ever seem to make it into the kitchen for a meal, so...
Basia HellwigSeptember 11, 2010
Cookbooks I Like: The Very Best of Recipes for Health
A couple of years ago when I first got interested in the traditional Mediterranean diet, I began experimenting with dinners composed of several...
Basia HellwigAugust 30, 2010
RECIPE: Watermelon and Tomato Salad
I WAS SORRY TO HAVE MISSED NEW AMSTERDAM MARKET in NYC this Sunday. The only consolation was that I was actually in farm country enjoying...
Basia HellwigAugust 23, 2010
RECIPE: Briami, or Greek Vegetable Casserole
BRIAMI IS ONE OF MANY ratatouille-like dishes found around the Mediterranean, each with its own distinctive taste and slight variations of ingredients. Served with...
Basia HellwigAugust 16, 2010
Ratatouille By Any Other Name…
When you talk about a Mediterranean diet, it’s hard to imagine that 20-plus countries bordering one sea could have anything identifiable as a...
Basia HellwigAugust 16, 2010
Another Salvo in the Ratatouille Skirmishes
Salon is reigniting the Great Ratatouille Debate. Is it a simple “what-the-hell-are-we-going-to-do-with-all-this-stuff kind of [stew],” as writer Francis Lam puts it (and was...
Basia HellwigAugust 9, 2010
Plus Ça Change…
Eat local. Try beans. Home-grown is best. Serve just enough. The Meatless Monday campaign (see yesterday’s post) isn’t the first time Americans have...
Basia HellwigAugust 3, 2010
Meatless Monday—How About Vegetable Couscous?
INTERESTING PIECE ON NPR THIS MORNING about how meat played an important evolutionary role in making our brains bigger—and us smarter. (Cooking did,...
Basia HellwigAugust 2, 2010
Dinner Tonight: Ratatouille Niçoise
Summer vegetables are just beginning to appear at the farmers’ market—red peppers, zucchini, onions—and so my thoughts turn to ratatouille niçoise. I brought...
Basia HellwigJune 16, 2010