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One potato, two potato | Sweet Basil and the Bee
“What’s your favorite spring food?” I asked Hanna one afternoon. She thought for a minute or two then surprised me by saying “potatoes -- potato salad makes me think of...
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What the heck is miso, and what do I do with it? | Sweet Basil and the Bee
When shopping for miso look for minimal ingredients: soybeans, rice or barley, salt and sometimes alcohol used as a preservative. Morocco recommends Miso Master Brand, from North Carolina or South...
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Simple, clean and fresh as a winter afternoon with sun | Sweet Basil and the Bee
Sweet Basil and the Bee is a semiweekly food column with recipes to try from local writer Nancy Lindahl.
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Snow geese and rice | Sweet Basil and the Bee
Sweet Basil and the Bee is a semiweekly food column with recipes to try from local writer Nancy Lindahl.
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Zhoosed-up citrus | Sweet Basil and the Bee
It really is a word, new to me from Hanna, that means to make something more interesting or attractive by changing it slightly or adding something to it.
Merry slightly COVID Christmas | Sweet Basil and the Bee
Sweet Basil and the Bee is a semiweekly food column with recipes to try from local writer Nancy Lindahl.
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Passing down Christmas traditions | Sweet Basil and the Bee
Family food traditions and memories are especially strong around the holidays.
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Cory’s famous turkey soup, other ideas for incredible Thanksgiving leftovers | Sweet Basil and the Bee
Thanksgiving is Thursday, and if you’re hosting hopefully you have the meal pinned down -- except for maybe the last-minute whipping cream for your pumpkin pie.
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The persimmons are orange — it must be fall | Sweet Basil and the Bee
If I had to explain why falling colored leaves makes me giddy, I’d be hard-pressed. Waking up one morning to a dogwood tree gone suddenly scarlet in the night --...
Last tomatoes of summer | Sweet Basil and the Bee
We discovered end of season tomatoes unexpectedly in the back yard while cutting back the crazy wild tomato plants. Hidden deep under all that foliage was a farmer’s basket of...