vegetables - Life in a Skillet: food, family, culture

Curried celery root soup

Jan 21, 2013

Here’s a recipe for fabulous warming winter root vegetable soup recipe with celeriac and curry. It’s my delicious and divine interpretation of a soup we tried at Big Sur’s Nepenthe one night. Easily adaptable to a vegetarian diet and completely gluten-free. Enjoy!

Seasonal autumn carrot, fennel, and apple soup

Nov 23, 2012

Savory, slightly sweet, and uber-seasonal carrot, fennel, and apple soup does triple duty as an appetizer, entree soup, or as a lovely sauce for ravioli.

Artichoke soup recipes

Nov 20, 2012

I saw a short tweet just now about a creamy crock pot artichoke soup, and when I clicked through found this wonderful, short booklet put together by Ocean Mist Farms, a local grower. Click through for the link –>

Playing I Spy with your food

Nov 6, 2012

So far, the verdict is out on my Farm to Table CSA box. I do love the idea of farm fresh fruits and veggies dropped at my door, but in reality it’s an awful lot of produce to deal with at one time. The apples and beets from that first week’s box were...

Farm Fresh vegetables at my door

Oct 19, 2012

We’ve gotten to the point that a phone call or a knock on the door usually signals an intrusion; there’s rarely a friend or neighbor on the other end. People asking my opinion on politics and desalination, robots offering to reduce my credit card rate,...

Sliced buttered radishes

Oct 18, 2012

We’ve been on a warm buttered radish kick lately, serving them up every couple of days on top of a slice of fresh baguette and topped with a bit of crunchy green salad. Mmmm. If you’ve never tried these, give it a go. . . it’s the simplest side dish...

Homegrown tomatoes

Aug 28, 2012

Only two things that money can’t buy That’s true love and home grown tomatoes LL and I used to listen to Guy Clark’s song “Homegrown Tomatoes” from the 30-foot sailboat that was our first home, the first years of our true love but before...

Spicy pickled vegetables

Jul 25, 2012

Here’s a quick recipe for pickled vegetables for you to play around with. I’d been making a batch of pickled red onions every couple of month ever since I found Monica Bhide’s recipe in a magazine last year and finally started playing around with it...

Greens gone wild

May 7, 2012

Winter’s untended and forgotten greens, gone wild in the overgrown vegetable bed.

Taste memory of Loreto: pineapple and jalapeño salsa

Mar 15, 2012

“If we’re in Mexico, does the menu really have to say Mexican food?” This from my very astute Kid Two while reading the offerings at Loreto’s La Palapa, a tourist destination-type restaurant conveniently situated between the ocean and the town...

Battle zucchini

Oct 10, 2011

Stick with me to the end and I’ll share some zucchini dinner ideas with you. After five days in St. Louis hanging out with mystery writers at Bouchercon, I came home with a recharged imagination and chaos in the garden. Seemed that summer ended in my absence....

How to stuff a wild zucchini

Sep 6, 2011

The zucchini have gone completely wild this year. It didn’t start out that way; they were actually slow to grow. I planted the 4″ starts the second week of May; by the third week of June they’d barely doubled in size. So I worked a handful of Dr....