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Summer Squash Risotto with Meyer Lemon

Serves 4 as a main, 8 as a side Author Notes For me, risotto is the ultimate comfort food. It lends itself to a wide variety of added ingredients: summer squash, squash blossoms, fresh herbs, and Rosé are delectable friends in this summery dish. This risotto can stand alone as a main course served with

Baked Saffron Risotto With Mozzarella and Crispy Topping Recipe

Here’s a trick for turning a-la-minute risotto into a casserole-like make-ahead baked dish. . Daniel Gritzer Risotto is not exactly a make-ahead food—no matter what tricks you use, it always requires last-minute finishing right before serving. But by using the tricks we developed for rice balls, it’s possible to turn a classically a-la-minute dish into

Vegetarian Moussaka

Moussaka is one of our favorite Greek dishes. It’s an eggplant based dish that is traditionally made with ground beef. Here we swapped the meat with lentils to make this an even heartier vegetarian dish. It has a creamy bechamel sauce that goes on top that makes this dish the comfort food that it is. 

Homemade Fresh Masa

Be the first to rate & review! To make fresh homemade masa for tortillas or tamales, you must first prepare nixtamal—dried corn soaked in an alkaline solution. Though this process of nixtamalization may sound intimidating, it’s quite simple and requires only two key ingredients: dried dent corn and pickling lime, or cal, both of which

Jacket Potatoes with Organic Beans | Authentic Vegetarian Recipes | Traditional Indian Food | Step-by-Step Recipes

The Supermarket Waitrose has been  supporting the Soil Association’s ‘Small Changes, Big Difference’ campaign by celebrating everything organic.  This week, I was invited to take part in this celebration and asked to swap one meal a day to organic for a week.Waitrose have a great range of vegetarian organic products and some helpful recipes  on their

Koldilere Rondha Paro Manxo (Assamese Pigeon with Banana Flower)

Ingredients:2 tsp. cumin seeds2 tsp. fennel seeds1 1⁄2 tsp. black peppercorns8 cloves garlic, peeled1 (2″) piece ginger, peeled and thinly slicedKosher salt, to taste1 large banana flower1⁄3 cup mustard oil6 green cardamom pods5 whole cloves2 Indian or regular bay leaves1 stick cinnamon, halved1 small red onion, minced1 1⁄2 lb. pigeon, cut into 2″ pieces, or