Tips For Eating and Living Well
As I’ve aged, I’ve decided that I find bland food offensive. I compulsively purchase exotic spice blends and add them to everything, am unsatisfied with restaurants that lean on salt as their key seasoning, and I find myself enamored by new brands of hot sauce. As a result, the food that I cook at home contains layers of flavors and a little heat — hence my newest recipe, Lemon Harissa Cabbage Soup. …
Lately I’ve been craving a simple dish of savory vegetables over creamy polenta, so I decided to make a grilled vegetable napoleon with portobello mushrooms, asparagus, artichoke hearts, and cherry tomatoes. This dish wouldn’t be complete without a flavorful sauce to bring out the flavors of the vegetables, so I created a fire-roasted tomato and red pepper harissa with the perfect amount of heat and acidity. The resulting dish was exactly what I wanted — warm, filling, flavorful, and so easy! …
