Root Vegetable Pilaf

Root Vegetable Pilaf

This fun recipe uses on of my favorite techniques—salt-baking vegetables (check out my recipe for salt-roasted beets)—to create a pilaf out of root vegetables. It works great as a side vegetable, or also as a nice, hearty substitute for a starch like potatoes or rice. 

Baba Ghanoush

Jon Emanuel, Executive Chef (2005-2016) Serves 4-6 Baba ghanoush is widely eaten throughout the Mediterranean region. It’s similar to hummus, but instead of garbanzo beans, eggplant is the base. Like hummus, baba ghanoush is great with pita, but can be dipped with just about anything else that you deem dip-worthy. Feel free to add more…

Roasted Root Vegetables

Sometimes vegetables like turnips, rutabagas, parsnips and beets get a bad reputation due to the generally unexciting boiled and mashed versions many of us grew up with. Roasting these veggies brings out their sweet and sometimes nutty flavors and will surprise event the most hardened critics with their deep, layered and complex flavors. These veggies…

Hannah’s Cornbread

Hannah, our new Volunteer Resources Assistant, loves barbecue- but she can’t eat ribs without cornbread. This recipe, which her family has been making for as long as she can remember, is her favorite because the cornbread comes out so flavorful and moist. With a little bit of honey, it also makes a tasty breakfast or…