You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces. Just good food from fresh ingredients. –Julia Child
green pico de gallo
Category: vegetables
spinach and ricotta stuffed pasta shells
All that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love. —Rumi
marinara sauce
There are no seasons in the American supermarket. Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green, and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it’s kind of a notional tomato. I mean, it’s the idea of a tomato. —Michael Pollan
classic vinegar-based coleslaw & beginning again
January is my favourite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings. —Anne Truitt
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fenugreek (methi) pesto
Spring’s promises, autumn keeps.
Winter’s secrets, summer reveals.
artichoke & apple soup
The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding. —Eric Parslow
Every time I make this soup, I always feel that it came to be from a misunderstanding, that it should really be made with sunchokes, the root vegetable (otherwise known as Jerusalem artichokes, which aren’t artichokes or from Jerusalem, for that matter), instead of with globe artichokes.
root soup for a tough canadian winter
Deep roots are not reached by frost. —J.R.R. Tolkien
roasted autumn vegetable pot pies
As easy as pie.
There’s something about pie, any kind of pie— gorgeous lattice top pies or rustic galettes, deep dish or pot pies, sweet or savory, fruit or vegetable, cheesy or meaty, hand pies from every corner of the earth… there’s something about taking pastry dough and wrapping it around, partially or completely, some kind of filling that makes it simply irresistible. 
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spicy tomato & eggplant curry
The tomato-eggplant combination is a mighty good one. That would explain why just about every corner of the globe has its version of a dish featuring this combination. While I love this combination in every version, the one that I make most often is this Indian curry.
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a thousand years & classic ratatouille
I have loved you for a thousand years,
I’ll love you for a thousand more. -Christina Perri
conifères & feuillus 