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Zucchini Mac and Cheese
Last week, I flew to New York to cook on stage for Cooking Light magazine’s Supper Club, a dinner gala at the Time Life building. The magazine named me their “Healthy Cook of the Year” last October...
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Golden Wild Rice Salad
Beets. Nothing polarizes the sexes quite like them. Well, maybe frozen yogurt, strip clubs, and perhaps inane declarations about the differences between men and women. Nevertheless, lots of men I...
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Roasted Delicata Squash Rings
If you are in a pre-Thanksgiving panic and looking for an easy, healthy side dish to add to your Thanksgiving table, first check out this checklist from Jezebel of things you should have already done...
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Very Vegetable Fried Brown Rice
Part of my responsibility as a food tour guide in Chicago’s Chinatown is educating my guests on the difference between authentic regional Chinese food like siu mai and xiaolongbao, and Americanized...
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Persian Black Lime and Herb Soup
Some of my earliest memories as a child take place on food tours of Chicago. A given excursion might take me from buying mangoes and ten-pound sacks of basmati rice on Devon to eating the city’s best...
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Chickpea and Sweet Potato Tagine with Apricots
When I started this blog last year, I agonized over what to name it. For some reason I knew I wanted the word “chickpea” in there (or cecci or channa), and eventually my buddy Justin came up with...
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