Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 1.5 hours Ingredients: 1 lb spicy italian pork sausage 3 cans cannellini or great northern beans, drained and rinsed 2 sweet potatoes, chopped 1 can crushed tomatoes 4-5 leeks, sliced 32 oz chicken broth ½ cup white wine 5-6 springs fresh thyme 1 cup bread crumbs …

Oven Temperature: 375 Prep Time: 45 minutes (not including time to make cornbread) Bake Time: 35 minutes Ingredients: 6-8 cups cornbread cut into cubes (or 1 package Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Cornbread Mix,  prepared ahead of time)  2 leeks, sliced thin 3 stalks celery, chopped 1 large fennel bulb, …

There are so many exciting green vegetables in season right now! Peas are one of our favorites, and the season for them is so short that we had to celebrate with a quick pea soup recipe. In the course of …

Here in Los Angeles, it’s been a frosty 50 degrees (and below!) and we’re a little cold, here, but luckily it’s National Soup Month, so we’re warming up with creamy soups, chunky pasta fagioli, some slow and some in less …

As we roll into March, and into Spring, we wanted to tackle an ingredient that may be broader than we’ve chosen in January (leeks) and February (cumin) but that we believe still belongs together in a category. Don’t worry, this …

For January, the month of leeks, we wanted to make at least one traditional leek recipe. The first thing that came to mind was, of course, potato leek soup. But which recipe to make? My mother solved the problem by …

In 2012, we decided to tackle new ingredients. We wanted to make the year about reinventing our cooking. The idea was to push the boundaries of our collective skill sets but also get back to basics. That meant focusing on other people’s …

For my [Ingredient], my Soul: Leeks recipe, I decided on this one from Jamie Oliver. It seemed easy, didn’t include many ingredients, or dishes, or time, or…you get the idea. Here are my beautiful leeks. They are soaking, because they …

This month’s ingredient is leeks! To fully explore leeks, we decided to accept Nikki‘s suggestion that we make a leek quiche, and to make it more fun, we both made this recipe from our separate East and West coast kitchens. …

It figures that we would kick off this new project with leeks. They are not so different from the ingredients in our chosen monikers, as leeks are in the same family as both garlic and onion. January’s a cold month, …