Spring is on its way, and you’ve decided that this is the year you’re going to plant a vegetable garden. You’ve even picked out a nice sunny spot in the yard. But before you start digging up your lawn, there’s something very important you need to do: Test your garden soil for lead. Lead contamination […]
My little nephews and I have been cooking together most weeks. We stick to meatless meals, and they take turns picking out the main ingredient. Pretty much any vegetable, fruit, legume, or whole grain at the market is fair game. For this week’s cooking adventure, Ev (age 5 1/2) picked black beluga lentils as our ingredient. This whole cooking […]
Remember last week, when I wrote about the book launch for Lentil Underground? And about the delicious small bites we enjoyed, made from organic heirloom lentils and grains grown by the Montana farmers featured in the book? Well, I asked Chef Claudia if I could share the recipe for her Red Lentil and Yam Tapenade […]
That dirt under my fingernails? Oh, that’s because I was just outside in the garden, planting peas and carrots. Barefoot. In February. This is why I live in California. After a weekend of much-needed rain, today was just too sunny and too warm not to go play in the dirt, and I’m looking forward to fresh-from-the-garden salads. But guess what? […]
Last night, I headed over to Berkeley for a talk featuring a group of organic lentil farmers from Montana, the former country music singer who wrote a book about them, and Michael Pollan. At the reception afterwards, we all drank wine and talked food politics and sampled small bites made with the heirloom lentils and grains […]
Do you want to try some hummus? If you do, you can try a carrot with it, or you could use a pita chip, or whatever you want. — Everett, age 5 1/2, when I asked what I should write about our cooking adventure Last week, the kids and I tried fresh garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas, aka ceci […]
