I was at my friend Pam’s house for dinner last week and I started looking through her cook book collection. The books were all really clean – pristine clean in fact. I immediately felt self-
Author Archives: Amy Neiman
This soup is stunning and it’s lovely cold or hot. Soup in summer has become one of my favorite things – savory, sweet, tart, spicy – all good.
Summer time. Baby beets. Or big beets cut. The topping on these beets is the key to this recipe and you’ll think of other things to sprinkle them on.
This tart is the best thing ever. Dan knows it. Everyone who eats it knows it. He makes it every time he comes to visit us (Dan is Mimi’s husband. Mimi is Alan’s best cousin.) In addition
My neighbor Lisa makes an amazing Frittata. She made it every year for like 20-years when we were doing Mother’s Day Brunch. I looked forward to it every year and I have missed it for the
Lily has been coming over to make jam. We’ve been making strawberry and apricot jam for weeks. Cleaning, macerating, cooking, jarring, giving away. I haven’t been feeding Lily – just
Who thought this up? Roasted beets, smashed then browned, served with yogurt and herbs. Amazingly delicious.
Cauliflower. Caul-i-flower. It does look like a flower. A white-ish or purple or green or yellow bulby flower. Edible. There was one in the refrigerator and I felt like soup and I had been
Somewhere a million years ago it seems I found a recipe for mustard marinated flank steak. It became a household staple and made the rounds to other families who ate it at our home.
With the exception of tangerines, which I know come at Thanksgiving, I associate fruit with summer. Because of this orientation, I am always surprised when the citrus arrives in the dead