pepitas
Homemade Chili Crisp
The defining detail of this spicy chili crisp is the use of chopped dates and fresh orange zest alongside chili flakes, chili powder, garlic, fried shallots and a dynamic list of spices. Use it to top everything from noodles to a morning scramble and you’ve got something wildly delicious and special on your hands.
Feel-good Lunch Ideas
Leveling up lunch ideas with lots of color, clever use of leftovers, and feel-good ingredients. These are two lunchboxes I packed recently.
Vegan Red Pozole (Pozole Rojo / Mexican Hominy Stew)
This favorite meatless red pozole is grounded with cascabel and chipotle chiles and spiked with citrus olive oil.
Life Changing Green Rice Porridge (Instant Pot, Vegan)
I don’t use the term life changing lightly, but this rice porridge recipe fits the bill. It’s a one pot, effortless, green, nutrient-packed twist on one of my favorite things to eat.
8 Homemade Spice Blends
A collection of eight bold, flavor-packed spice blends. The recipes are the ones I use regularly, the ones in my notebooks with lots of stars and hearts next to them.
Pumpkin and Rice Soup
Silky textured and vibrant, the pumpkin soup I made as soon after 40 hours of travel back from India. It has a herby rosemary butter drizzle and lemon ginger pulp, and completely hits the spot.
Sopa Verde de Elote
There is an wonderful Sopa Verde de Elote (green corn soup) in Diana Kennedy's Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico published in 1978, I used it as inspiration for this variation - sweet corn and peas are off-set by a spike of green chile, a finishing dollop of creme fraiche, and generous squeeze of lime.
A Good Winter Salad
A simple salad made with crunchy lettuces, a garlicky, melted lemon butter dressing, and shaved endives, delicata squash, avocados, and pepitas.
