Save Print Sugar Snap Peas with Coconut & Lime Author: Moosewood Collective Recipe type: side salad Prep time:  20 mins Cook time:  3 mins Total time:  23 mins Serves: 4 cups   Green, green, and green--we love pea season! Edible podded peas, like sugar snap or snow peas, are the basis for a quickly prepared salad with a distinctive crunch and the fragrance of coconut, lime, and mint. Sugar snaps are still good when the peas inside have fattened up a bit, while snow peas are best when the pods are flat. Snap peas are usually sweeter tha ..read more

Simple and zesty, this favorite everyday dressing with its basic olive oil and fresh lemon juice underpinning is highlighted by garlic, thyme, and black pepper. The mustard adds just the right amount of pungency. Vary the fresh green herb to suit your fancy and to complement most favorably the dish you’re making. Use with your favorite freshest salad greens and veggies. Yields  about 1 1/4 cups Save Print Versatile Vinaigrette Author: Moosewood Collective Recipe type: Dressing Cuisine: French style Prep time:  15 mins Total time:  15 mins Serves: 1¼ cups ..read more

Who doesn’t like sweet potato fries? Here is a very easy, very satisfying alternative, baked in just a little seasoned olive oil. Save Print Roasted Sweet Potatoes Author: Moosewood Collective Recipe type: Side Dish Cuisine: American Prep time:  10 mins Cook time:  15 mins Total time:  25 mins Serves: 4 servings   Roasting intensifies the natural sugars in sweet potatoes. These sweeter sweet potatoes come out of the oven soft in the center and crisp around the edges. Ingredients 2½ pounds sweet potatoes 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon salt bla ..read more

These enticing savory turnovers make an impressive appearance at the dinner table—hot, puffed, flaky, and golden brown. The creamy tofu filling is snappy with sun-dried tomatoes, nutritious with greens, and full of herbs and spices. Serve two per plate (or one for those with daintier appetites) with a bright colorful vegetable on the side and it’s Quite smashing. We suggest kale, spinach, chard, collards, mizuna, arugula, or some combination of these for the 4 cups of greens in the recipe. Use fresh dill or basil whenever possible. If you must use their dried counterparts, add them earlier in ..read more

To our valued Moosewood customers, due to the current events, we are only accepting orders for pick-up/curbside or delivery with service from 12:00 – 2:30 pm & 5:00 – 7:30 pm, Monday through Sunday. Our new to-go menu is available here.  You can place orders for pick-up by calling the restaurant directly at (607) 273-9610, or place orders for delivery through Ithaca To Go Due to our limited staff, menu items and order times may vary. We thank you very much for your continued support during these uncertain times. Hopefully we’ll be able to welcome you back to the dining room in the near fut ..read more

For More Information, Contact: www.cityofithaca.org/642/Green-New-Deal Email us: ithacagreennewdeal@gmail.com ..read more

  Remembering Arnold It is with utmost sadness that we say goodbye to our longtime literary agent, Arnold Goodman Arnold and Elise Goodman, of Goodman Associates, have represented us in the world of publishing for close to 35 years. There are many people who live in and around Ithaca, New York who are thinking of Arnold today, and for the rest of our lives, with sincere fondness, admiration, and gratitude. We are Arnold and Elise’s Moosewood Collective cookbook authors. In each of our fourteen cookbook’s acknowledgements, we’ve extolled Arnold’s and Elise’s virtues as supreme literary agents ..read more

by Tony Del Plato   “You are what you eat” is the proverbial notion that to be healthy, one needs to eat good food. But making healthy food choices is only part of the story. The bigger picture includes how and where the food is produced. Is there reverence for the land and water and respect for the people who plant, tend and harvest? Do we waste food or share it? STEPS (Seneca Towns Engaging People for Solutions) and Consumer Reports will sponsor a conversation and workshop about making healthy food choices on October 8, Tuesday, 6:30pm at the Edith Ford Memorial Library, in Ovid. “Eating Loc ..read more

    Its mild anise flavor, celery-like crispness, and visual appeal make this a refreshing salad to follow a rich pasta meal or a hearty stew. A newcomer to many tables, fennel, or finocchio, has been a staple in Italy for as long as anyone can remember. Save Print Fennel and Orange Salad Author: Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home Recipe type: Side Salad Prep time:  35 mins Total time:  35 mins Serves: 4 to 6   Ingredients 2 fennel bulbs (also called finocchio or fresh anise) 4 oranges juice of 1 lemon 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil salt and freshly ground black ..read more

A hearty soup inspired by Indonesian gado gado sauce, fragrant and spicy with ginger and cayenne, rich with peanut butter and sweet potatoes.       Save Print Indonesian Sweet Potato & Cabbage soup Recipe type: Soup Prep time:  10 mins Cook time:  30 mins Total time:  40 mins Serves: 4   Ingredients 1 tablespoon grated peeled ginger root 2 garlic cloves, minced or pressed ¼ to ½ teaspoon cayenne, or to taste 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1½ cups chopped onions ½ teaspoon salt 2½ cups chopped cabbage (1/2-inch pieces) 2½ cups diced sweet potatoes (about 1 pound) 1 qua ..read more