recipes & cooking Archives - A Way To Garden https://awaytogarden.com/category/recipes-cooking/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:49:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 9651199 foraged and homegrown: whole-food cooking, with amy chaplin https://awaytogarden.com/foraged-and-homegrown-whole-food-cooking-with-amy-chaplin/ https://awaytogarden.com/foraged-and-homegrown-whole-food-cooking-with-amy-chaplin/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:35:43 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=56106 I CAN ALMOST taste it now: the flavors of the first spring crops, whether homegrown, or from your CSA share, or even ethically foraged…with the promise of a whole growing season of the freshest, tastiest produce to come. It’s the perfect time to think about adding some new recipes to our repertory that can really show them off, and who better to ask for inspiration on that score than Amy Chaplin, whose approach to cooking is nature-inspired and whole-foods based. It’s the 10th anniversary of Amy’s James Beard award-winning cookbook, “At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen” (affiliate link), and a special updated edition is about to be released to celebrate. Amy has worked in the food world around the globe for three decades, as a cookbook author, vegetarian chef, teacher and recipe developer. She is a native of Australia who now lives and gardens in the Hudson Valley of New York State, and I asked her help to get us all ready for making the most creative and delicious use of the botanical bounty that’s ahead of us. Plus: Comment in the box near the bottom of the page to enter to win a copy of the new book. […]

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]]> https://awaytogarden.com/foraged-and-homegrown-whole-food-cooking-with-amy-chaplin/feed/ 329 56106 zucchini recipes and vegetable-bounty strategies, with ali stafford https://awaytogarden.com/zucchini-recipes-and-vegetable-bounty-strategies-with-ali-stafford/ https://awaytogarden.com/zucchini-recipes-and-vegetable-bounty-strategies-with-ali-stafford/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2022 21:03:35 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51874 YOU KNOW HOW the vegetable garden goes. One day, there are just two green beans ready to pick, and then there are 62 all at once. Famine, and then feast. Some of that can be moderated by growing different varieties with different days to maturity or with smaller succession sowings of each crop. But no matter how much planning, it’s not a predictable assembly line—and neither is what you’ll get each week if you subscribe to a farm share or CSA. Like: hello, radishes every week, plus more kale than I can keep up with. So what to do with whatever produce comes your way? Cookbook author and food writer Alexandra Stafford offered some tactical advice and also prepared us for the onslaught of zucchini with creative and delicious recipes. Ali creates the Alexandra’s Kitchen website and companion e-newsletter at alexandracooks.com—and a whole extra, free, weekly seasonal email, too, called the Farm Share Newsletter, which is giving me more ideas each week for what to do with what the garden, the CSA, and the local farmstand have to offer. She’s the author of the hit book “Bread Toast Crumbs.” Plus: Enter to win a copy of the book by commenting […]

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]]> https://awaytogarden.com/zucchini-recipes-and-vegetable-bounty-strategies-with-ali-stafford/feed/ 187 51874 springtime recipes & d.i.y. salad dressings, with justin chapple https://awaytogarden.com/springtime-recipes-d-i-y-salad-dressings-with-justin-chapple/ https://awaytogarden.com/springtime-recipes-d-i-y-salad-dressings-with-justin-chapple/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:16:26 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51548 FINALLY, the first fresh flavors of spring are starting to show up at the farmers’ markets, and before long in our gardens, with more to come every unfolding week. Chef and cookbook author Justin Chapple, who’s also the “Food & Wine” culinary director at large, offers ideas to use the coming bounty, starting with an idea for asparagus, plus easy but transformational homemade salad dressings and more. Which vinegar with which oil please, and why? Justin is known for his energetic and very approachable style, creating what he calls “built-to-be-easy recipes.” As part of his role at “Food & Wine,” he hosts their video series called “Mad Genius Tips,” the title of his first book, and he authored another called “Just Cook It” (affiliate link). Justin is going to be teaching a workshop near me in the Hudson Valley on May 8th, 2022, at HGS Home Chef Cooking School in Hillsdale, NY, as part of the big Workshop Experience Weekend that I’m involved with, with lots of festivities. How to get tickets for his event, and the whole May 7-8 festival schedule. Plus: Enter to win a copy of “Just Cook It” by commenting in the box near the bottom […]

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