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Posts tagged “spinach”

Colorful Cooking: How to Make Colored Pasta

Want to add a little color to your plate?! Lovely ribbons of green, red, and yellow pasta really bring a dish to life. They're also as easy to make as they are to eat! Here's how:...

Five Ways to Eat: Spinach

Spinach isn't just Popeye's muscle-building vegetable of choice. It's also one of our favorite dark leafy greens: tender, juicy, and endlessly useful in the kitchen. It's even seasonally versatile; it...

Ricotta Pancakes with Spinach and Cherry Tomatoes
Recipe Review

We bookmark so many recipes that inevitably some of them never get made, or by the time we revisit them, the ingredients are no longer in season. We're quite glad we didn't overlook Yotam Ottolenghi's...

What Is Malabar Spinach?

Did you know that salad really isn't a summer food? Yes, we can find tidy greens in the supermarket year round, but most lettuce varieties — as well as our beloved arugula — really don't l...

Basic Technique: How to Prepare Chard (Or Any Other Leafy Green!)

Facing a big pile of leafy green chard and knowing you have to somehow get it sliced it into bite-sized ribbons can feel a bit daunting. But it's really a lot easier than you might think! Here's how w...

Recipe: Spinach, White Bean, and Taleggio Pizza

A couple of weeks ago, we ate dinner at Co., a new pizza place in New York owned by Jim Lahey (he of the Sullivan Street Bakery and No-Knead Bread). There's a pie on the menu called the Popeye that co...

National Food Roundup: Braised Spinach
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 04.01.09

Just because it's spring doesn't mean we have to stop braising. Italian-Style Braised Spinach with Shallots and Garlic sounds pretty perfect right now. That, plus lots of Passover recipes in this week...

Recipe: Spaghetti with Mascarpone, Meyer Lemon, Spinach, and Hazelnuts

We had two encounters with mascarpone cheese in pasta recently. One was seeing this Tagliatelle with Spinach, Mascarpone, and Parmesan over on Jamie Oliver's website. The other was catching the tail e...

Recipe: Spinach and Lemon Soup with Orzo

This soup is a riff on the Greek avgolemono: a delicious concoction of beaten eggs and lemon juice, whisked into broth and cooked just enough to thicken. We borrowed the egg and lemon motif, and we al...

Classic Combination: Pear and Walnut Salad

Salads in the Fall take on a more rustic, earth-toned look. Instead of the bright tomatoes and cucumbers of summer, it's pears, nuts, and (usually) deep-flavored cheese. This combination is one we tur...

Recipe Review: Palak Paneer from the Boston Globe

If you're looking for an excuse to try making some home-made paneer (or using up more summer greens, for that matter!), look no further than palak paneer! When the Boston Globe ran a recipe last week...

Weeknight Recipe: Spinach Pesto Pasta with Fresh Peas and Mushrooms

Not everyone would look in their fridge, see a languishing bag of spinach and some leftover bits of goat cheese, and immediately think, "Hmmm, pesto?" We home cooks are special like that! Whirred th...

Product Review: Goat Butter

I first had goat butter at Bar Tartine a few years ago, where it was served as an appetizer with radishes and salt and a very nice glass of sparkling rose. Swoon. I was smitten and wanted to know m...

Signs of Life at the NYC Greenmarket

We noticed a lot of people with their cameras out this morning in Union Square. Photogenic spring produce, like this bountiful pile of scallions, is finally becoming more plentiful in New York. See ...

Recipe Review: Spring Spinach and Herb Soup

We've been searching for recipes that feel light and springlike without relying on out of season vegetables. This vegetarian soup seemed easy and simple; the perfect first course for a spring supper....