Meatless March

After a weekend of stuffing myself with things like french fries and chicken wings and the world's most wonderful cookies , yesterday I was craving something balanced and vegetable-heavy (and, of course, meatless). I landed on " Roasted Veggie Grain Bowls " (Love and Lemons). The page with the recipe offers something very valuable: general guidelines on throwing together a grain bowl. It need not have quinoa; it need not have parsnips and cauliflower and broccolini and Brussels sprouts; it need not have chickpeas; it need not have kale-cilantro sauce; it need not have sauerkraut. If you have a grain, a protein, an acid, some crunch, and a sauce, you're in excellent shape. With that in mind, I left out the broccolini because there was none at the farmer's market, and instead I used a little extra of this truly splendid romansco broccoli. Sooooooo prettyyyy I also skipped the sauerkraut and substituted homemade pickled radishes (credit to Alexandra'...

I am so happy that our local farmers markets are back in business for the season. Among the things I picked up this week was a bunch of radishes, with an eye to making sandwiches using the recipe for " Roasted Radishes with Honey, Lemon, and Thyme ," from the Delicious Living blog. Things did not go as planned. You're shocked, right? SHOCKED. I had bought a woefully inadequate quantity of radishes, as it turned out, but I recovered. I made the sauce per the recipe and threw in some green beans, and roasted the two veggies together. (I should have started with the radishes and added the beans later, because they didn't take as long to cook, but whatever.) Pat made us some very beautiful cocktails. And then I had my backup dancer shell some farmer's market peas, and we threw those into some Kraft Mac & Cheese, and dinner was served. All's well that ends well. Today I was a volunteer at the Maplewood South Orange Book Festiva...