Tag: vegetables

Carrot Kohlrabi Salad

Carrot Kohlrabi Salad

Salads can be a problem in winter. The summer lettuce and cucumber sort of things may just feel too light and watery- and many stores don’t have really good summer vegetables. Or you may just not want to eat slightly rusty romaine, if your store 

Cabbage and Potatoes, with Bacon

Cabbage and Potatoes, with Bacon

  Sometimes, you just go with the classics… and this is one of them. I don’t actually cook or eat a lot of bacon. This isn’t the blog for Bacon in Everything!! recipes – but the smoked meat does add a nice little kick of 

Seared Turnips and Parsnips

Seared Turnips and Parsnips

Here in the Northeast, winter has fully settled in. It’s often in the 40s F during the day – sometimes higher – but it freezes at night, and it has been down to 2 F, even here in the city, and  much colder North of 

Winter Salad – Pickled beets and Endive

Winter Salad – Pickled beets and Endive

When I was a baby, we lived in Denmark for a little less than a year – my father was there on business. We were there for my first birthday, and the first Christmas that I was paying attention (I’d been a newborn the year 

Waterless Cooked Carrots

Waterless Cooked Carrots

My grandmother had a pan called a waterless cooker. It was a heavy cast aluminum, with a tight fitting lid, that held heat beautifully. The concept was that you could use it to cook food with very little energy (gas was expensive, when she started