OTTOLENGHI SIMPLE by Yotam Ottolenghi | Cookbook Review + Recipe

Review copy provided by the publisher Yotam Ottolenghi’s streak is unbroken: SIMPLE delivers delicious, accessible, quintessentially Ottolenghi dishes for the home cook In Yotam Ottolenghi's latest cookbook, OTTOLENGHI SIMPLE, the simple (Ten Speed Press; $35.00), isn’t just a euphemism for “everyday” or “weeknight cooking” or “30 minutes or less.” SIMPLE is the system…

ByMichelleOctober 16, 20180Comments

Recipes Side Dishes

Green Beans with Sesame-Miso Vinaigrette

Green Beans with Sesame-Miso Vinaigrette is the summer variation of an asparagus recipe I make every spring. While you do have to boil water to blanch the green beans, you won't be heating up the house for long. Served chilled, this green bean salad is just what you need for the dog days of summer…

ByMichelleJuly 25, 20180Comments

Product Review

We Tried the New Costco Acai Bowl and Al Pastor Salad

It's either brave or crazy to take chocolate soft serve off a food court menu and replace it with acai. But Costco did it. A couple of weeks ago, the company also announced it would be taking the Polish Dog off its food court menu. Twitter went crazy, mourning the loss of the sausage. In its…

ByMichelleJuly 24, 20180Comments

Main Course Recipes

Grilled Asparagus and Halloumi Sandwiches

Asparagus is in: Grill 'em if you Got 'em For lunch earlier this week, I started where I often start around this time of year. I pulled some asparagus out of the crisper drawer and started to prep them. Conventional wisdom about snapping them where they naturally snap is out, so I cut off the…

ByMichelleMay 10, 20180Comments

Recipes Salads

Asparagus Pasta Salad with Cheese Tortellini

Asparagus is the true harbinger of spring in the Pacific Northwest. While everyone thinks apples when you mention Washington state, it's actually the #1 producer of domestic asparagus with 23 million pounds harvested in 2017. The minute the local asparagus hits we're drizzling it with olive oil, salt and pepper and grilling or roasting it.…

ByMichelleApril 26, 20180Comments

Restaurants

Cafe Flora Team Brings Vegetarian Fare to Sea-Tac Airport

Floret by Cafe Flora Spotlights Northwest Purveyors With Dine-in and Grab-and-Go Offerings Answering the call of travelers looking for vegetarian and vegan options in their airport food choices, Floret by Cafe Flora is now open at Sea-Tac airport. Located next to the new Delta lounge between the A and B terminals, Floret offers both dine-in and…

ByMichelleMarch 23, 20180Comments

Recipes Side Dishes

Sesame Soy Sauce Spinach is a Super Simple Side Dish

For all the complicated history between Japan and Korea, the cuisines of the two countries have commonalities, and they've trickled down to our respective -American kitchens. It's not uncommon to have a combination of soy sauce, sugar, rice wine and sesame oil as a marinade, a sauce, or a dressing. My grandma used to make…

ByMichelleMarch 12, 20180Comments

Recipes Salads

CELERY SALAD WITH POMEGRANATE WALNUTS AND DATES

We've reached that point in the winter where I'm just about to my limit with kale salads. I had to go in a completely different direction, but still wanted a distinct crunch. The answer was obvious and not-so-obvious at the same time: celery. I've made a celery salad before with honeycrisp apple, and while delicious,…

ByMichelleJanuary 6, 20180Comments

Recipes

5 DELICIOUS WAYS TO EAT KALE

There's a lot of eyerolling and sighing when someone mentions kale. But the fact is, we eat a lot of it in the fall and winter. Already, we had a kale salad last night with a tahini yogurt dressing. I made crostini last week with red Russian kale and delicata squash. If you stop worrying about…

ByMichelleOctober 13, 20170Comments

Appetizers Recipes

Delicata Squash and Kale Crostini is What You Wanna Eat Now

This balsamic delicata squash and kale mixture is what to eat now. Are you ready for kale? It's been a gorgeous long summer of tomatoes and cucumbers and peppers and whatever else, but now I feel it. The chill is in the air, the flannel shirts are out of their long sleep, it's time. It…

ByMichelleOctober 9, 20170Comments