Slice of Rice

Spring is my absolute favorite time of year.  Alex loves fall (which is comparable enough when you are looking at the temperature) but a...

This recipe has quickly become my new favorite broccoli recipe.  I know it doesn't look (or sound) like much, but it's the perfec...

The funny thing about this recipe is that I started thinking about kung pao shrimp after Alex pulled down all of our various nuts and co...

I know I have said this before, but I'm not typically a big potato-eater.  I love McDonald's french fries as much as the next per...

My favorite new farmers' market discovery of the year is definitely the sunchoke (aka the Jerusalem artichoke).  We have made some fa...

So we took a break for a few weeks (a much needed squash hiatus) and we finally got around to cooking the stripetti squash that I picked...

The week  leading up to Thanksgiving we ended up eating a lot of random vegetarian meals.  It just seemed like the proper (and healthy) t...

I feel like this is one of those dishes that we tried where we spent the first few bites trying to figure it all out, the next few bites ...

I have never roasted cauliflower this long - when we roast cauliflower we tend to only roast it for about 30 minutes, which often resul...

We actually made this squash recipe during the hurricane, but since I had a picture of it (unlike the Mexican Chicken Soup or the Lettuc...

First things first - the hurricane hit and we are A-OK.  I know that much of lower Manhattan (as well as various suburbs and boroughs of ...

I can't figure out what it was about this recipe that made me want to cook it.  I have never been a huge fan of creamed spinach - if ...

I am so excited that squash season is finally here.  Yay.  I know you can get butternut and spaghetti squash year-round at most decent g...

Say hello to what might be my new favorite cabbage variety.  There are a few reasons for my changing allegiance, including aesthetic ones...

We finally succesfully pickled something!  Hurray us!  This is our third attempt at pickling since Alex bought us a bunch of mason jars. ...

We found ourselves in the interesting position yesterday afternoon of having a half serving each of cauliflower and brussels sprouts in t...

I was pretty shocked to see fresh ears of corn still at the farmers' market this past weekend, but I bought a few on the off chance t...

For some reason I have been talking about broccoli all weekend.  Alex finds it totally mystifying when I get so fixated on vegetables but...

The only sad thing about the transition to fall is the near immediate loss of corn at the famers' markets.  The loss of tomatoes make...

I am going to start this post off by giving a brief shout out to Alex.  Last weekend we went to Cincinnati to visit his family.  We were ...