Food Fight
Challenging one of my strongest food prejudices with a rich, creamy chicken liver curry.
Tag Archives: picky
Cheese Crackers
Grain-free cheddar crackers made with garbanzo bean and carrot flours--perfect for your next snack attack!
Persnickety Progress, 4-3-14
Celebrating incremental changes in eating habits, from huevos rancheros to lamb saag.
Multi-vitamin Tea
A two-ingredient herbal infusion that packs a huge micronutrient punch.
Combatting the Great Plague of 2013
Some natural approaches to surviving the cold and flu season, taken from personal experience.
The Silver Lining
I realized the other day, as I sat down in front of a plate of sweet potato and black bean tacos with diced avocado and feta cheese, that being an extremely picky eater may actually…
Squish
After going a little crazy with winter squash varieties at the farmer's market, here are two squash dishes: simply roasted sweet dumpling squash, and butternut squash macaroni and cheese, with a rant about hiding food…
Clandestine
A quick summer pasta dish that can be served hot, cold or room temperature, tossed with peas, zucchini shreds, and a homemade pesto of fennel fronds and mint. A great way to use up those…
Meet Betty
A homey, adaptable dessert made with trashy white bread, fresh fruit and panko breadcrumbs, in fun individual portions. This version uses Oregon strawberries, and garnishes of whipped cream and strawberry-balsamic syrup.
Packaged with Care
A summery recipe for zucchini-wrapped halibut with dill and a white wine-butter sauce.
Divide and Conquer
Two recipes for boneless leg of lamb: First, grilled butterflied lamb with a hoisin glaze, served with sauteed mushrooms; then, Moroccan kebabs grilled with zucchini chunks and served over pistachio-date couscous.
Thanks for the Carrots, Molly
This recipe pairs ancho-rubbed pork tenderloins with scallion corn muffins and honey-roasted carrots, using a method that allowed me to enjoy cooked carrots for the first time.
Zippy Muffins
Z-P (zucchini-prune) muffins are a big hit with my son, and his parents too! Tender shreds of zucchini add moisture to a spicy whole wheat muffin, while walnuts and prunes provide depth and textural interest.
Eggplant Fritters
These crisp fritters transform eggplant into a vehicle for dipping in spicy muhammara; Moroccan chicken skewers round out the meal.
Not Beeten Down
A partially successful attempt to make beets palatable to us: they colored the homemade fettuccine and studded the sauce, along with sauteed beet greens and tangy goat cheese.
The Secret Origins of the Persnickety Palate
The story of the first time I willingly added an ingredient I dislike to a recipe.
They Go Together Like Quiche and Cookies
Big chocolate chip cookies pick up the slack (and extra yolk) from making a crustless spinach-sausage quiche. While the latter was tasty, the crunchiness of the cooled cookies disappointed us.
Cowboy Crumb Muffins
Allspice crumb muffins, with their sweetly spiced streusel topping, evoke memories of the cowboy coffee cake I adored as a child.
Golabki
Polish cabbage rolls stuffed with pork and served over mashed potatoes with a creamy paprika-tomato sauce.
Unlikely Milestones
Zucchini is transformed by these crisp pancakes, served with a garlicky yogurt sauce.