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I don’t know what exciting plans you all have this weekend, but I have a date with this head of cauliflower. This photo doesn’t accurately show just how big this thing is, but it is the Thanksgiving turkey of cauliflowers. It arrived in my Farmhouse Delivery a few days ago and I’m determined to use up the whole thing… What do you like to make with cauliflower? Leave me and idea below… I’ll pick my favorite and feature it here next week… Here are some cauliflower favorites I’ve made before: Roasted Cauliflower & Hazelnut Salad Roasted Cauliflower with Rasins & Capers Cauliflower Crust Pizzas, version 1 and version 2

Bring on the summer desserts! I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for frozen treats like ice cream and popsicles. I’m ready for no-bake sweets that hit the spot on days when it’s too hot to use the oven. And I’m especially ready for summer desserts that showcase the season’s best fruit. Cherry pie? Peach crisp? Blueberry cobbler? Yes, please! You’ll find 30 of my favorite easy summer desserts below....

In case you weren’t getting enough kale in your life… This week, I was thrilled to contribute to Food 52’s Halfway to Dinner series. The challenge was to make a few bunches of kale stretch into 5 nights of relatively simple meals. You don’t have to twist my arm to cook kale so it’s a challenge I gladly accepted. (Although after “week-of-greens” I’m pretty sure my husband Jack is out eating fried chicken somewhere…)

We absolutely love hummus around here and are always looking for new ways to incorporate it into our meals. 5 Easy Hummus Recipes You’ll Want to Make Over and Over Again Easy, Smooth Hummus Recipe: With just a few simple tricks, you really can make creamy smooth hummus at home and yes, we really do think it’s better than store-bought. Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Recipe: How to make simple, creamy roasted red pepper hummus with sweet red bell peppers, canned chickpeas, garlic and tahini....

Once 4-5 mangoes were peeled, they’d cut out bit-sized cubes from all sides and taste as they go. Some mangoes would naturally be sweeter than the others but the cut pieces were always uniformly mixed together so nobody had to have just average-tasting mangoes that day. My family has a lot of mango lovers. I am a famous one with lots of stories from when I was a toddler and my love for the fruit....

Thanksgiving has become an odd holiday for us. During the first years that Jack and I were together, we traveled to visit family for every single holiday. It took us a while to realize that Thanksgiving weekend air travel is the worst of them all. So now we have a tradition of staying home with no real tradition. One year we stayed in and made risotto. The year after that we had a friends-giving (before they were called that)....

Baking these soft, chewy apple oatmeal cookies allowed me to cross off #1 on my fall checklist: fall baking! Now that we’ve moved back to Chicago and are experiencing fall to its fullest, I have all sorts of fall activities I want to do. I can’t wait to go apple picking, to carve pumpkins, and more! If you’re also someone who loves fall activities and getting in the fall spirit, I highly recommend making these apple oatmeal cookies as soon as you can....

I have a love/hate relationship with farro. It takes forever to make, and quinoa is quicker, but the chewy, nutty grains bring a real heartiness to this not-wimpy fall salad. The catch is that you have to pre-plan for farro – it’s easiest to make a big batch and keep it around all week. I’m not usually that organized, but I happened to have made farro the day before my Farmhouse vegetables arrived, so here we are… a farro salad with more veggies than could fit onto the subject line of this post....

Food Photography Basics 2. Aperture, F-Stops and DOF (Imp!!) 3. Basic Editing with Picasa 3 4. Using the Right Bowls, Plates & Colours Q: I read in your previous post about blurring backgrounds by controlling the aperture. I tried doing this in my camera but I can’t figure out how to change the f-stop value. Help! A: I really wish I could take a look at your camera to help you with this....

For years, I couldn’t seem to find a recipe for brownies that met my standards. Anytime I made homemade brownies, I wanted them to be just like the ones I ate as a kid – super fudgy, moist, and chocolaty, with crispy edges and crackly tops. But the thing is, these brownies didn’t come from a recipe. We always made them from a box. Nowadays, I prefer to bake from scratch, but no brownie recipe I tried could live up to the chocolate brownies of my childhood....

This potato salad recipe is hands down the BEST I’ve tried. It’s creamy, it’s tangy, and it’s flecked with savory herbs, crunchy celery, and (optional, but delicious) hard-boiled eggs. I’ll be bringing it to every cookout and BBQ we attend this summer. This potato salad recipe is so tasty that I can’t get enough! It’s essentially the classic potato salad that appeared at every picnic and potluck throughout my childhood, but it has a few key twists....

This black bean soup recipe is easy and delicious. It calls for pantry ingredients like canned black beans and spices, and the cooking process is largely hands-off. The stove does most of the work for you! Even though it’s simple, this black bean soup has a bold, spicy flavor and creamy texture. The secret ingredient? Bean juice! See, when I cook with canned beans, I almost always start by draining and rinsing them....

If you caught Monday’s post, you might have noticed that I made a pretty big panzanella. I think it looked a little smaller in the photos, but it was truly a massive amount of food, especially since there’s just two of us here. As we were cleaning up after that dinnertime photo shoot, I was storing away containers full of leftovers and I said to Jack (half joking), “are you ready to have panzanella for breakfast tomorrow?...

Cheera Thoran Recipe (Keerai Poriyal) Serves 2 to 4 Ingredients: 5 cups tightly packed chopped spinach leaves (a bunch) 1 cup grated coconut 4 shallots (or half of an onion) 2-4 green chillies A pinch of turmeric powder 1/2 tsp jeera 2 tsp oil (I always use coconut oil for thoran) 1/4 tsp mustard seeds A few curry leaves (optional) 1 dry red chilly, torn into half Salt to taste How I Made It:...

Every visit back to Kottayam sees amma cooking up masala podis, dosa and idli podi, pulusu podi which I use for vatha kuzhambu, and this Thavana Podi or Chutney Podi which TH loves with curd rice. I can eat it with pretty much everything – dosa, idli, wheat dosa, and even chapati. Since the coconut releases oils when roasted, it’s not necessary to add more oil to it while serving....

I make this cinnamon rolls recipe every year for the holidays. And every year, it’s a HUGE hit. These homemade cinnamon rolls are soft and gooey. They’re packed with a cinnamon brown sugar filling and topped with a sweet vanilla glaze. If you like store-bought cinnamon rolls, get ready—these homemade ones are SO much better! They’re also easy to make. So many of our readers have made and loved this cinnamon roll recipe over the years....

Curry leaves or Karuveppilai is one of the staple herbs in Indian cooking, especially in Southern India. Its the one herb that we cannot do without and you will find this in practically every Indian kitchen, or shall I say refrigerator 🙂 However limited space people have around their houses and apartments, it’s not uncommon to see at least one curry leaves plant that is carefully watered and tended to....

Drumstick Leaves Rasam Recipe Serves 4 Ingredients: 1.5 cups of drumstick leaves, picked and cleaned A lemon-sized tamarind ball soaked in 2 cups water, juice extracted, and pulp discarded 1 tomato, chopped 4-5 cloves of garlic 1/8 tsp of turmeric powder 2 – 3 tbsp of rasam powder 3 tbsp of cookied and mashed toor dal (optional) Salt to taste For tempering: 2 tsp ghee or oil 1/4 tsp mustard seeds 1/4 tsp powdered jeera / cumin seeds A generous pinch of asafoetida / hing How I Made It:...

We love chicken wings, but the last thing we want to do at home is use a deep fryer. That’s why we’re such big fans of baking chicken wings at home. For this BBQ chicken wings recipe, we use the same method as our crispy baked hot wings, but instead of tossing the baked wings with buffalo sauce, we use our easy homemade BBQ sauce. Our BBQ chicken wings recipe guarantees crispy and delicious wings....

You’ll love this egg-free Caesar dressing recipe. Instead of using egg yolk as our base to make the dressing creamy, we make a vinaigrette-style dressing with garlic, lemon, anchovy, parmesan, and olive oil. It’s delicious and still surprisingly creamy! I love Caesar salad, and making your dressing at home is easy and tastes much better than store-bought. To see my classic dressing made with egg yolks, see this Caesar dressing....