LeSauce

butter blistered new potatoes with garlic and herbs

roasted potatoes are tempting any time of year, but the tiniest new potatoes, dripping in butter, almost burst in your mouth.

fried almond and olive pasta with fresh cilantro and parsley

everything goes into the pan together--that has origins in my laziness, but it works well.

tequila tarragon apéritif, fried okra and sunning with friends

at yesterday's backyard hang-out with friends, i got to try out 3 new things...

winter salad nicoise

Every winter we forget that we used to make this, “like, all the time last winter!” It’s a...

“pickled” tomato sauce with fried basil

The fried basil was my mother’s genius–a trick that changes the texture of the basil and therefore how you eat it and taste it.

summer squash and sesame salad

i could never pick a favourite salad. they are just so many kinds that i can’t compare them, like the italian bread salad or complex french salads that i wrote about just last week. and then there are the salads...

a random saturday dinner

how do you deal with a whole lot of dill and thyme that are about to go bad in your fridge? add them to absolutely everything you can think of.

crispy halloumi and summer vegetable salad

i tried to lay off this treat for a while. but with summer back again, and salads subbing as dinner, how can i not invite my old friend to the table again?

issues

green

fat

we say tomato

what to eat?

crudités with curry leaf coconut sambol dip