Category Archives: Vegetables & Sides

Roasted Parsnips with Honey and Raisins

Roasted Parsnips with Honey and Raisins

You know those times when you’re so busy overthinking something that you just can’t get out of your own way? That’s how it was with this dish. I had made this dish and made this dish in the most completely convoluted, time-consuming, pain in the arse way, and each time, it’s deliciousness convinced me thatContinue Reading

Maple-Roasted Fennel and Pears

Maple-Roasted Fennel and Pears

Oh, woe is fennel. Not enough people are enamored of her, and as such, not enough people know her charms. Yes, I did just assign a sex to fennel, though, as finocchio in Italian, I guess it’s already been decided that fennel is male. But the curves! Have you seen the curves? We grow fennelContinue Reading

Cinnamon-Roasted Butternut Squash with Dried Cranberries

Cinnamon-Roasted Butternut Squash with Dried Cranberries

Nearly every holiday, I show up with some variation on orzo salad. At Easter, there are peas, asparagus, and goat cheese, at Christmas, I’ll arrive with a version containing sundried tomatoes, walnuts, and feta, and, of course, you just know I’m showing up at your Labor Day party with a chopped up Caprese salad dumpedContinue Reading

Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Hazelnuts

Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Hazelnuts

Brussels sprouts and bacon – or, heck, any hearty greens and bacon – is a dish that we eat so regularly that when it came time to write it in recipe form, I began totally overthinking it. Not that it’s bad to have to eat 5 or 6 batches of Brussels sprouts with bacon inContinue Reading

Roasted Grapes with Saba

Roasted Grapes with Saba

Typically, this time of year finds me waxing poetic (like so many of us) about pumpkin. Ah, I really do love me some pumpkin, it’s true. However, this year, I’ve stumbled upon a new autumn produce love, which I find myself eating morning, noon, and night (um, usually on different days, though. I didn’t wantContinue Reading