Quick Meal

Braised Lettuce Hearts

Braised Lettuce Hearts

Before explaining how to save a lettuce heart, let me first explain to you why I had so many lettuce hearts just chilling – literally, (unintentionally epic pun) – in my fridge.

Cauliflower Leaf Summer Salad

Cauliflower Leaf Summer Salad

It’s funny how we often don’t think about what we don’t eat and why we don’t.  Cauliflower leaves are one such example.  Growing up, it’s what protected the food.  Now, it is the food.  When you don’t feel like spending on 101 cruciferous veg - that can cost an arm and a leg in some parts of the world - buy the cauliflower and get the best bang for your buck.

Ratatouille: Every Which Way

Ratatouille: Every Which Way

Ratatouille.  It can be fancy and minimalist.  It can evoke the warm and fuzzy feelings of home.  It can bring to mind the image of a cute French rat.  It can be transformed into epic bestovers.

Peel-to-Stalk Spelt Salad

Peel-to-Stalk Spelt Salad

Introducing 1-Dish-1-Week Challenge.  I like to call it the chinese whispers of cooking (as of about ten minutes ago).

Bacon-Fat Grilled Nectarine Salad

Bacon-Fat Grilled Nectarine Salad

Do not.  Throw away.  Your bacon fat.  Now read on (and save this in your speedy salad arsenal)...

Tomato Tarte Tatin

Tomato Tarte Tatin

Summer has finally hit.  And with it, an abundance of tomatoes. *Happy Dance*.  Which is an even better excuse to devour tomatoes at every opportunity.  Tomatoes are, after all, the essence of summer, and while I desperately wish I had an Italian tomato plantation at the end of my garden, (I guess we can't have everything...), this tart definitely does any and all tomatoes (even those not Italian), justice.