Use only small young zucchini for this salad.
Boiling turns apple cider into a delicious sweet-tart syrup that's great over desserts as well as sweet potatoes and sweet squash. New Englanders have used this trick for several hundred years and they know you have to start with good-tasting cider. Check out organic ciders and ones produced on farms in your area.
You could cook the asparagus a day ahead, and make the salad hours before serving.
All over southern Italy country people eat bowls of nutty-tasting whole-wheat kernels with creamy ricotta, sweet honey and dried fruit to celebrate the feast of Santa Lucia on December 13 and the planting of the new wheat.
Copyright 1996 From "Savoring Spices and Herbs" By Julie Sahni, Published by William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York
From Learning to Cook with Marion Cunningham, by Marion Cunningham.
Eat these like candy; they are that good.
Its tender, golden crumb makes this cake a good foundation for a sort of unstructured strawberry shortcake.
An oven-roasted potato pancake with a few new twists. Try substituting rutabaga, turnips, parsnips or white potatoes for a quarter of the yams. And do use organic ingredients if at all possible. Serve this as a main dish with a salad or as a side dish with grilled pork or eggplant, and salad of fresh cabbages.
From Chef Mark Reinfeld's menu for A Holiday Vegan Feast.