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CARAMELIZED NECTARINES WITH MAPLE COCONUT GRANOLA.

It’s been a seriously intense two weeks: I saw an epically moving opera (Dog Days, featuring two completely genius friends: Fellow food blogger Molly Yeh and brilliant college classmate Lauren Worsham-Jarrow), I honored the seventh anniversary of my mother’s death, and,…
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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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CANTALOUPE COCONUT LIME SORBET.

It’s said that the sensory experience of eating—the scents, the textures, the tastes—has transportive powers and the capacity to transform even the heaviest sadness into beauty. (Need evidence? Reference the epic Como Agua Para Chocolate—Like Water for Chocolate.) So what about…
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CHOCOLATE CHERRY SMOOTHIE BOWL.

  Each year, I’m shocked by the steady march of the seasons—offended, almost, by their nonchalance in encroaching upon the blank slate of my year. Summer? I scoff. Already? Impossible! And yet here are the peaches, the cherries, the ripe warmth of sunshine early…
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BANANA BRÛLÉE YOGURT WITH BLACK SESAME BRITTLE.

Good morning! There are two blank canvases that tend to inspire me most frequently in the kitchen: Bread and yogurt. (Coincidence that they’re both breakfast foods? Perhaps not!) Both are perfect tabula rasa (rasi plural?) for any culinary inclinations I…
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LIFE-CHANGING PESTO.

I thought I knew pesto, knew its shades and its depth and its mouth-feel. I thought I understood how pesto was made, the simple stuffing of fresh basil into one’s blender or food processor, the olive oil raining over it…
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MANGO MINT FREEZE!

  Mango season often comes twice a year on Maui. Seasonality is confused in the islands—what fruits when, when the weather is sweet and constant like a faithful lover? But in the heat of July, mangos are usually dripping off trees…
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