curried potato hash with baby spinach Uh, it's cold. Not sure if anyone's mentioned that yet. Had you noticed? If for some insane reason you insist on going outside, might I suggest that you put on a hat? Then...wrap yourself in a ...

White Bean Soup I didn't make this soup today. If only I'd had a can of creamy, comforting white beans in my pantry, I would have capped off this endless, unreasonably cold January day with a bowl of white ...

grits ‘n greens ‘n tomatoes Hello all! I've missed you! I've been thinking about you! I've been meaning to pop in to say hello, but I've been completely and utterly distracted. My crazy self accepted the title of 'pastry ...

homemade tomato juice (and gazpacho) Howdy! I've been busy hatching plans, freaking out about said plans (just a little), and working on a few projects. Like making cloth napkins. Perhaps you can tell by the new banner that I ...

summer rolls My deadline for posting summer rolls passed last fall, but the opportunity rolled back around just yesterday. Didn't see that coming! At least so soon... It's summertime! Proof: I'm roasting here ...

harissa Not being much of a condiment-lover, I usually eat my fries plain, and would opt for a dry sandwich rather than one slathered with mayonnaise. When I spotted a recipe for harissa while flipping ...

black bean and wild rice soup Soup, to me, is something to be thrown together from odds and ends lurking in the fridge and pantry. Which might be why I see a look of terror in Eli's eyes whenever I tell him soup's on. It's never ...

coconut tofu with ginger and lemongrass Oh, hi there. So, I just realized that I gave you guys recipes for Bread That No Sane Person Would Ever Make and then disappeared for like 10 days. Jeeeez... Perhaps I can make it up to you ...

ratatouille a.k.a. ratatouille, sort of. An authentic ratatouille would contain zucchini (not a fan) and be sauteed (not as easy). Eli's mom always brings basketloads of tasty edibles when she comes for a ...

detox soup "I wonder what Jen's been up to?", at least one of my three readers surely must have wondered recently. (Hi, mom!) Right? Hello? Is this thing on? Well... I was the recipent of a big old ...

pomegranate-chile tofu [cue dramatic voice-over] Previously, on eat your vegetables...vanilla bean-flecked milk transforming into yogurt! pomegranate juice being transformed into molasses! a wok of pasty tofu cubes ...

chocolate chip cookies, classic + vegan/gluten-free With Christmas lurking less than three weeks away, my sister and I need to get cracking on our annual holiday tradition of sending out tins of cookies. I'm not sure what's on this year's menu ...

roasted butternut squash soup Oh, hi there. I haven't felt all that great lately, so this little space has been a bit neglected. But, last night, I got back into the kitchen. It felt good. I tried to make these lemon ...

lentil stew with spinach and potatoes I'd always heard that there's no such thing as a simple home improvement project; that once you've started you've opened up a can of worms. Now I know that saying is true, for sure. We ...

chocolate cake I'm 28 today. I must be getting old, because instead of using my birthday as an excuse to try some decadent recipe I've been eyeing, I'm going to keep it simple and allow The Grit to provide me with ...

spicy basil noodles I guess I'm one of the lucky ones whose first experience with tofu was really, really good. I was working late at the bakery when my fellow baker-in-shining-armor suddenly appeared. He presented ...

vegetable tagine I am easily distracted. I began this post about four hours ago. But...I realized that my camera was downstairs in the kitchen. I did, at least, end up in the kitchen where I made a smoothie ...

coconut rice pudding My self-imposed deadline for posting Tofu Summer Rolls passed this morning at 5:05 am, so, instead, I present to you: Coconut Rice Pudding! It'll comfort you on a chilly autumn evening, ...

new york bagels Happy Sunday! Have a bagel! Why in the world should you ever make your own bagels? Well, have you ever plucked, sliced, smeared, and devoured a warm, crackly-crusted bagel from a fresh batch...one ...

sweet potato, corn, and jalapeño bisque Chilly fall weather snuck in out of nowhere, and before I knew it we were eating a pot of soup. Bring on the blankets and sweaters and scarves! You dust off your biggest soup pot, crank up the ...

vegan banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies I need to add an Aggression category. There's a recipe in Eli's great-aunt's cookbook for Aggression Cookies that I've mentally bookmarked. The opportunity to try them hasn't yet arisen, though. ...

black bean burgers I can be such a slacker. Last week, I had to move into the guest room because a pile of laundry (clean, I swear!) had taken over the bed. I subsisted on packages of Trader Joe's chile and cheese ...

vegan morning glory muffins I made this particular recipe for a particular bakery owner who shall not be named. He wanted to market them as "Vegan Schmegan" muffins, but ran the business into the ground and fled town before ...

rice noodle salad with scallions and herbs I'm posting this recipe for a couple of reasons: One, the weather channel is telling me it feels like 106 out there, and I'm going to take their word on that one. This recipe requires barely any ...

hummus and pickled carrots I was flipping through some old issues of Saveur when an article on Jerusalem caught my eye. It featured vivid scenes of a bustling shuk, or market: shakshuka--eggs poached in a spicy tomato ...

limoncello mint sorbet I dug into my photo archives and came out with six days' worth of frozen treats. (Please forgive any questionable photography.) Last time: strawberry lemon sorbet. Next up: limoncello mint ...

strawberry-lemon sorbet Though the window air conditioning unit we recently purchased has most likely saved our lives, we're still not quite immune to the evil temperatures lurking just outside our door. And this is ...

oven-baked french fries Did you know that you can have fresh, crispy french fries at home without frying? Yeah, you probably did. It took me 27 years to figure that one out. There are a couple of recipes out there ...

quinoa taco salad I could tell you all about quinoa and its significance to the ancient Incas and their recipe for War Balls; about its complete amino acid profile and impressive disease-fighting capabilities. ...

chard with garlic and lemon Bunches upon bunches of bright, beautiful rainbow chard sat smack dab in the middle of the produce section, on sale no less. Enticing, enchanting, how could I refuse their colorful, Summery lure? ...

homemade almond milk One of my favorite ways of harnessing almonds' nutritive superpowers is grinding them into almond milk. The store-bought stuff is fine, yes, but this homemade version is pure, smooth, rich and ...

chocolate peanut butter The lovely Deb, of smittenkitchen.com, always posts great recipes but there are a couple that stand out in my mind; recipes that lured me in with just a picture, induced wild fits of drooling and ...

espresso granita This recipe is based on espresso. Espresso is pretty great. Slushies are pretty great too. Espresso + slushy = unstoppable force of awesome greatness. So, you stir together some espresso or ...

asparagus, tomato, and orzo salad Asparagus is in season 'round here. 'Round here being Georgia, by the way. We like to either lop off bits of words or smoosh 'em all together 'round heeyuh in these parts, ya'll. I'm not a native ...

homemade boullion That crazy looking concoction up there is homemade boullion. A brilliant, though seemingly obvious in retrospect, alternative to those odd, bland, dehydrated boullion cubes you can purchase at ...