HIBISCUS MINT STRAWBERRY SORBET.
Hello from a plane zipping over the North Pole en route from Paris back to LA. What a week. I’ve been to Paris, London, and back to Paris again (for a brief hour and a half, during which I devoured…read more
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ROASTED FENNEL & SPRING GREENS SOUP.
Living on the top of a hill in the middle of the Santa Monica mountains has radically changed my sense of seasonality. I’ve watched as the lush grasses turned from verdant emerald to golden brown, as the violet lupine struggled…read more
MISO OATS WITH SCALLIONS + SESAME OIL FROM MORE WITH LESS.
I think a lot about how the lives we imagine for ourselves when we’re young inevitably fail us. We grow up thinking we’ll be an astronaut, married by 25, herding a gaggle of kids by 30, winning an Academy Award…read more
PISTACHIO ROSE RHUBARB GALETTES + MAMA LOVE NOTES: KALE & CARAMEL COOKBOOK FOR MOTHER’S DAY.
We’re just a couple weeks away from the Kale & Caramel cookbook’s first birthday. Last year at this time I was fretting over a zillion small things, from planning the book launch party to making sure the book would be…read more
NEXT LEVEL POPPYSEED BANANA BREAD (VEGAN).
Some of you already know this story: We lost my mother’s recipe binder after she died. I don’t know exactly when it was misplaced, but in the shuffle of my move and my father’s renovating the house, it went missing.…read more
CITRUS AVOCADO SALAD WITH BLACK PEPPER ALMONDS.
It’s been another week of firsts: I hosted my first seder and dinner party in the new home, and I took my first hike in the jaw-droopingly beautiful Red Rock Canyon Park, a mere ten minute drive from my front…read more
QUICK-PICKLED SHALLOTS.
This post is pure utilitarian enjoyment: No stories, just the recipe for one of my most beloved kitchen staples—quick-pickled shallots, infused with whole coriander seed. I can’t remember when I first brought this jar of magic into my life, but…read more
VEGETARIAN PASSOVER SEDER PLATE WITH BEET-PICKLED DEVILED EGGS.
My first definitive Passover seder memory is of a young girl named Jennifer standing on top of a piano bench singing “Jesus Loves Me” at the top of her lungs. She’d just learned the song at school and, sensing a…read more
DESSERT BREAD BOARD WITH TRIO OF DIPS: CHOCOLATE LAVENDER, MATCHA JASMINE & HONEY ROSE CASHEW.
This post was created in partnership with La Brea Bakery. All opinions are my own, including my obsession with the single origin heirloom wheat used in their new artisan breads, sourced from a farm in Big Sky Country, Montana. New…read more
SPICED VANILLA NUT GREEN MILK + THE COLLISION OF PAST & FUTURE.
Hello from the sky—you know this is one of my favorite places from which to write you. It’s quiet up here, serene, a vast milky blue of possible futures. Far less cluttered than thirty-five thousand miles below. I’m winging my…read more
CHALLAH FRENCH TOAST WITH SUMAC YOGURT & PICKLED ONIONS FROM YOGURT!
Hi. Hello. Bonjour. Ohayou gozaimasu. It’s been two whole weeks since my last post and I’ve been doing precisely one thing since last I wrote: Unpacking. Making my new home livable; pleasurable, even. But before I got to the unpacking…read more
COCONUT KALE & LENTIL BOWLS WITH ROASTED KABOCHA SQUASH FROM POWER PLATES.
The week has arrived. I’m moving. It’s hard to believe, as my installation in the apartment I’ve lived in for the past four and a half years feels so complete, so solid, so final. But this time next week I…read more
