This purple cabbage slaw is a take on North Woods Inn’s famous Red Cabbage Salad. You’ll find versions of this recipe everywhere, but it’s about more than ingredients.
Gluten-free
Turkey Chili Blanco
If you’ve ever been to a chili cook-off that felt more like a death-match, you know that chefs tend to get territorial about their chili. My friend Mia and I usually get along like rice and beans—yet we still can’t agree on who’s chili is better (mine). Like a lot […]
Hungarian Goulash
There are many reasons to make goulash. For papa, it’s a delicious reminder of the country and culture he grew up in. For the kids — well, they just think it’s yummy and fun to say. For me, goulash has a special place in my heart — and stomach. Making […]
No-Bake Tahini Fudge Squares from Ambitious Kitchen
I love halvah as much as the next Jewish girl. But those thick blocks of sesame candy are usually packed with sugar. That’s why we were delighted to find this amazing No Bake Salted Tahini Cookie Dough Fudge recipe from Ambitious Kitchen. It uses only 2 tablespoons of maple syrup as a sweetener …
Crispy Salt & Vinegar Potatoes
Which came first, the potato or the chip? A little confusion is understandable. At first this crispy Salt & Vinegar Potato side dish might seem like a fun riff on commercial salt and vinegar chips (or “crisps”), but really, it’s the other way around. Bagged salt and vinegar chips date […]
Everybody’s Favorite Kale Salad
Sometimes it just works. A pretty good recipe gradually transforms into a great one, and after a few hit potlucks, it has a regular seat at every holiday meal and sports event — an unspoken hope that just maybe the Knicks will win this year. This kale salad is one […]
Baked Plantain
Plantains, or cooking bananas, have been delighting palates since the days of Cleopatra. To eat a banana raw, in fact, is a particularly modern phenomenon. And as much as we love a mildly sweet, mutated modern banana, there is something earthy and magical about this ancient bitter fruit that transforms […]
DIY Rocket Pops
Whether you call them Bomb pops, Rocket pops or Firecrackers, these patriotic popsicles make for some very sweet summertime memories: the faint chime of the ice cream truck, lips stained a happy raspberry blue for hours. The original red, white and blue rocket-shaped “Bomb pop” first hit supermarket shelves nearly […]
Fun with Fruit Leather
Fruit leather makes for happy, sticky memories: The day you had fruit leather in your lunchbox was a day to celebrate indeed! Giggling over boys and fart jokes on the schoolyard was just so much sweeter with a fruit roll up “thumbsicle” to gnaw on. This simple recipe for homemade […]
Guacamole 101
Guacamole is a dish that lends itself to experimentation. Creamy, mild avocados are a perfect blank canvas for flavor, and our obsession with them just keeps growing. (Last year alone, the average American consumed about 7 pounds of avocados!) I have fond memories of living in Mexico, eating plain sliced […]
Banana Sandwich, 2.0
The banana sandwich is to Americans what Marmite is to the Brits: either you love it, or it the very idea makes you want to hide. If you happen to live North of the Mason-Dixon line it’s very possible that you’ve never even heard of it. But even if the […]
Hand Rolls at Home
We started learning temakizushi, or hand rolls, this fall from a friend, but we had no idea they would become our favorite after-school snack! We love hand rolls because they don’t take a ton of skill to make, unlike maki rolls or nigiri (those beautiful ovals of rice topped with […]