Eggplant Parmigiana Pizza
The best of all worlds. A light, satisfying, deeply flavorful meal. A traditional comfort food transformed to a pizza. No baking dish to wash. Great vegetable flavors in the middle of the winter season.
Pudding Cake Parmigiana
The most luscious vegetarian dish of the month. Right in line with the dietary advisory: cheese, eggs, milk, butter; a tiny bit of sugar. The result: a combination of a cheese soufflé and an airy cheese cake. Rich, luscious, light. Deeply flavorful and fragrant.
Farro “Stew”. Chase the chill away.
Close your eyes and inhale. You think it's beef stew. Open your eyes and smile because you've got a deeply delicious and aromatic dish that puts more whole grains and vegetables in your diet and lets you reduce your meat consumption.
Coq au vin: Close enough for Stew Week
Whether or not it's a stew, it's aromatic, herbaceous, smoky, tender organic chicken in a deep, dark, rich wine sauce thick with mushrooms and onions. Totally luscious and satisfying. Just 40 minutes on your stovetop. Just $4 per serving.
Fragrant Lamb Stew for Stew Week
Earthy, sweet, tangy, tart, herbaceous and spicy all at once. Totally luscious and satisfying. It warms up the kitchen, it warms up the house. When it's miserable outdoors, this stew makes it wonderful indoors.
Stew Week: Boeuf Bourguignonne
When it's miserable outdoors, make it wonderful indoors. Warm up your kitchen with a highly aromatic humidifier. Boeuf a la Bourguignonne. Beef braised in a rich wine sauce until it's beyond tender and into the zone of melting.
Back to BCS Basics: Poaching Chicken
Less than five minutes of preparation to get an exceptionally tender, flavorful and aromatic chicken. The chicken, some herbs and your stove do the rest. Then you eat. Tender, moist, delicious. Way to be.
Chicken-Coconut Soup, sweetly spiced
A bright, refreshing but very warm party in your mouth. No signs of Spring where I live, so I'm making soup this week. Starting with this south by southeast Asian Chicken-Coconut Soup. Inhale. All the Way. You won't get stoned, but you'll be transported.
No-Sodium Soda Pop: Banana-Strawberry
Back in the BCS Soda Lab again. Looking for a delicious all-natural soda with no sodium and no added sugar. And a lot of potassium. Here it is. If your only requirement is great flavor, this one's for you, too.
Always seasonal, aromatic and delicious
A Spinach Tart for a rich but light lunch, brunch or dinner. Bright and herbaceous. Aromatic and delicious. More than a day's worth of Vitamin A and a load of Vitamin C. A great reward for very little preparation.