Swimmers’ Mac and Cheese
Mac & cheese is a classic comfort food where you wouldn't think you had to worry about nightshades. But good, home-made mac & cheese...
5 Minute No Nightshade Cornbread
I’ve been asked on multiple occasions for my cornbread recipe. Amusingly, while writing this up, I realized the original contains nightshades. I’ve made this...
Garlic Calamari
Very early in the process of developing a no nightshade red sauce, I came across this Bon Appétit recipe for simple shrimp in a...
On Oil
Every recipe on the Internet seems to call for a tablespoon of oil—whether you’re sautéing a single garlic clove or a pound of cabbage....
Coconut Cashew Chicken Curry
This Sri Lankan-inspired creation is based on a David Tanis recipe published in the New York Times. The original contains two nightshades: tomatoes, and...
Ramp Mango Salsa
This simple salsa trades on some truly fabulous ingredients.
The linchpin here is the ramp, a wild onion which is only available for a few...
Tempeh Crumble Hash with Greens
I love the intimate, bendy relationship between potatoes and hash. While potatoes are not always hash and hash is not exclusively potatoes, there is...
Malted Fig Ketchup
Do you know the story of figs? How they begin as an inward facing flower, and how each ripe fig contains the essential spirit...
A Simple Flex-Mex Coleslaw
I never really liked coleslaw, then began tinkering with this recipe, from Karlynn Johnson of The Magpie Kitchen. It has inspired a bushel of...
Hard Plum Ketchup
This was my second ketchup, built on a template provided by this recipe from British celebrity chef Delia Anne Smith. The first time I...