by Alice Ciccu | Nov 15, 2024 | Recipes
Notice the single bay leaf? This is one of those ingredients that most people can’t taste, but if you leave it out, it will be noticed. Your guests might not know what is missing, but the soup will lose some flavor and heartiness. It adds a savory flavor that...
by Alice Ciccu | Nov 14, 2024 | Recipes
I titled this “pasta” carbonara as it can be served with several different kinds of pasta. While I used spaghetti, it’s also good with linguini or penne, rigatoni, mostaccioli or other short pasta shapes. It should be a shape that is more robust and...
by Alice Ciccu | Nov 14, 2024 | Recipes
While you can use canned tomatoes instead of fresh ones, the sauce is so much more flavorful with fresh, especially if they come from your garden or a local farmers market. Because this dish has so many flavors, it goes best with a less complicated main dish. Either a...
by Alice Ciccu | Nov 14, 2024 | Recipes
This dish is a traditional Armenian dish full of fruits and nuts. It can be made two ways, sweet or savory. This is the savory recipe. For the sweet recipe, just omit the onion and add 1 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp nutmeg. It is also naturally dairy-free, gluten-free,...
by Alice Ciccu | Nov 14, 2024 | Recipes
I used carmen peppers for this recipe, they came fresh from our garden where we had a bumper crop of them from just a few plants. Carmens are firm and sweet, perfect for cold salads, but worked wonderfully here. You can use other types of sweet peppers just as easily,...
by Alice Ciccu | Nov 14, 2024 | Recipes
Pumpkin pie is a mainstay for Thanksgiving dinners, but traditional recipes make it hard for plant-based folks to enjoy it along with everyone else. This pie, however, is fabulous and is not obviously plant-based. It’s creamy and flavorful and no one will miss...
