By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist These green beans are perfect for a potluck; the beans themselves are blanched and shocked and then they
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist This simple, warming side dish goes well with mac and cheese or a rustic soup and salad. It might be just
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Correspondent When you want to serve bread with dinner, the two obvious options are to buy a nice artisan loaf, or
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist An all-out hanukkah latke binge is something I look forward to every year, and I’m a purist. Please do no
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist Spaghetti alla carbonara is one of those great Italian dishes that comes with multiple-choice apocryphal
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist From May through October, we have a farmer’s market just a couple of blocks from my house. Our regular ri
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist Rosh Hashanah is right around the corner, and what could be more appropriate for the New Year than a dess
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist Every gardener loves to lament that they get overrun with zucchini and have to resort to baking too much
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist Chimichurri is the quintessential sauce of Argentina, and deserves to be better known in the northerly cl
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist Green garlic is one of those wonderful farmer’s market ingredients. You don’t often see it at grocery store
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist This salad is great to have in your back pocket for those potlucks and picnics that are starting to pop u
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A Spanish tortilla is nothing like a Mexican tortilla. In Spain, a tortilla is a thick potato and egg omelet. Tortilla is perfect for Passover because
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By Michael Natkin, JTNews Columnist This refreshing celery and fennel salad is a riff on one that I had at Bastille in Ballard. Their celery salad
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By Michael Natkin , JTNews Columnist Hopefully we are at a point now where it is no longer considered a faux pas to actually cook a vegetable. I k
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By Michael Natkin , JTNews Columnist Meze is the Mediterranean tradition of a meal made of several small plates. To make a nice meze, you can make
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By Michael Natkin , JTNews Columnist Things this soup will not do: Win any beauty contests. Things this soup will do: Warm you to your core on a c
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By Michael Natkin , JTNews Columnist Arancini. "Little oranges." Only these guys aren't quite so healthy as a piece of citrus. They are actually
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By Michael Natkin , JTNews Columnist Homemade minestrone has got to be one of the best rainy day foods in the world. Living in Seattle, we've got
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By Michael Natkin, JTNews Columnist Cooking pasta by the absorption method instead of boiling in a gallon of salted water may seem scary if you gr
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By Michael Natkin , JTNews Columnist We all know we should eat more whole grains, but sometimes they don't complement the rest of a meal. They wor
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