Fish with Slaw

in: Dinner, Seafood

This photo probably looks familiar to longtime readers. What can I say: We are creatures of habit down in South Carolina. If I look back at my dinner diaries, without fail, there’s a Pan-fried flounder with some form of slaw in the line-up. (But that certainly does not mean you have to be south of the Mason-Dixon Line to enjoy… Read more »

Shrimp Tacos with Spicy Avocado Cream

in: Dinner, Quick, Seafood

Remember winter? On this sunny, second day of spring down in South Carolina, as I trade in my boots for Birkenstocks, I already feel like it’s shrinking away in the rearview mirror. Also helping things along are these decidedly warm-weather tacos we ate for dinner last night, which made excellent use of the otherworldly shrimp down here. As always, the… Read more »

Start with Ginger-Miso Dressing

in: Dinner, Vegetarian

My heart swelled a little bit last week when Abby texted me from college saying she had figured out how to concoct a pretty decent vinaigrette using only dining hall ingredients (“oil balsamic a lil soy sauce onion powder pepper salt sriracha and yellow mustard…i’m surprised yellow mustard works”). Not only that, but she was whisking up a batch with… Read more »

Definitive Vegetable Fried Rice

in: Dinner, Vegetarian

Does the world need another fried rice recipe? I didn’t think so until I made Kenji López-Alt’s Basic Vegetable Fried Rice from his new, somewhat astonishing book The Wok. The dish, which I consider to be an absolute cornerstone of a Weekday Vegetarian’s repertoire, has always been something I’ve kind of made up on the fly. Ginger here, soy sauce there, eggs… Read more »

My Podcast

in: Dinner

Just a reminder, that I have a podcast! It’s available to paying subscribers of my newsletter and the next episode, featuring Matt Rodbard, co-author of Food IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts drops Friday, March 4. A subscription costs $5/month or $50/year. You can subscribe here. In addition to the podcast, a subscription comes with… Read more »

Cabbage & Onion Tart

in: The Weekday Vegetarians, Vegetarian

A few weekends ago, Abby was home from college for a mini-break, and right before dinner one night, she came into the kitchen to tell me her friend Alex was going to stop by. It’s dinnertime, I said. Will he be eating with us? She (somewhat annoyingly) couldn’t confirm one way or the other, but I decided to be prepared just in… Read more »