Lunch & Dinner

ROASTED EGGPLANT & ZUCCHINI SALAD WITH BASIL VINAIGRETTE.

Nothing is working very well these days. I’ve been sleeping without sheets or clothes, and waking up to air already as thick as honey. The heat encroaches like an ungainly monster and sits, taunting, waiting for me to throw up my hands…
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BLACK SESAME TOFU TACOS WITH SRIRACHA SOUR CREAM & KIMCHI MARINATED VEGGIES.

Remember that one time I tried to make kimchi but it never fermented so I just had a boatload of kimchi marinated veggies? Yah, me too. And even though it didn’t work out the way I’d hoped and dreamed, it…
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HEIRLOOM TOMATO & NECTARINE CAPRESE WITH BURRATA AND CRISPY BASIL.

There are certain rituals I perform to keep me sane: Brushing my teeth, rubbing lavender or rose essential oil on my chest before I sleep, picking flowers from the neighborhood, making lists, writing, reading, and on my birthday, getting…
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TAHINI & FETA LOADED SWEET POTATO FRIES.

Can we all intone these four precious words in unison like some kind of entranced bliss-fed cult: LOADED SWEET POTATO FRIES. I know. It just sends you into near catatonic states of excitement, doesn’t it? And what if I told…
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MINI PLUM & PISTACHIO CORNMEAL CROSTATA WITH LEMON VERBENA WHIPPED CREAM.

I think of flavor as a 360-degree experience—obvious to those of you familiar with the K&C tagline (food for all five senses), but perhaps less obvious in tangible practice than in theory. What does it mean to feed all of…
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BLACK PEPPER & HONEY RICOTTA STUFFED FIGS.

I recently had an (obviously heated) debate amongst friends regarding which foods are like sex. Not sexiest, mind you, but literally, in and of themselves, reminiscent of sex. It’s an important distinction (you feel me)—these foods are entities so lush…
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SUMMER GREENS WITH LEMON HERB YOGURT DRESSING.

When summer comes a-knocking, what do you say? The season asks of us our all, baring every emotional and physical cobweb in the glaring light of long days and warm nights. Summer is an intense season for me, inclined as…
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GREEN GODDESS PESTO PIZZA WITH FRESH PEAS & FETA.

Oh how I love a good pizza. Something in the process of its making fuels togetherness, collaboration, thoughtfulness, and freewheeling flavor play. All things I adore. I also harbor the sneaking suspicion that pizza makes everything better. Breakup? Pizza. Hard…
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SUSHI BOWL WITH SESAME UME CUCUMBER SALAD & SHICHIMI TOGARASHI DRESSING.

What fuels your creative spark: Beauty? Quiet? Noise? Mess? Neatness? And when do you feel most like yourself: Alone? In groups? With friends or family? These are all questions that guide me when I’m feeling slightly off. Which happens. There…
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