I made these Brussels sprouts twice this week. Yes, this recipe’s a definite keeper, but also I had to make them a second time because the first time I was too distracted by what our new edition, Joey, was getting into to take pictures. And the distraction was totally justified; I took my eyes off [...]

Plural puddings because these are baked in a muffin tin so as to be individually sized. But don’t kid yourself; you’ll have at least two in a sitting and yes, that is a threat. The two of us devoured two thirds of these before I fed the remaining third to the garbage can upon the [...]

The first time I tried to carve a pumpkin, I was shocked by how difficult it was and ended up having to draw the face on with a Sharpie. All those Halloweens I’d watched my dad do it in the backyard, it had looked easy; he, and the job of carving those big pumpkins, suddenly [...]

I feel a bit uncomfortable referring to butternut squash as simply squash, since to me “squash” refers to the crook-necked yellow variety that my mom would always make. But up north the default squash seems to be butternut, a winter squash, which makes perfect sense seeing how it’s winter here for most of the year.

It’s been a whole week since my last post, and there’s really no excuse for it. Still, I’ll give you three. First and foremost, my recent, too-brief state of funemployment has come to a jolting end, and I am now working what feels like an exorbitant amount of hours at a physically exhausting job that [...]

This was so super delicious and pretty. Spicy, savory, sweet, nutty, herby, creamy, and seasonally appropriate. Basically perfect. Except for one thing. It’s so troublesome, I can’t put it out of my mind: the sage-hazelnut goat cheese looks like crumbled blue cheese. If you were approaching this dish at a buffet table, for instance, you’d [...]

I wasn’t even going to tell you about this one, but then it really grew on me, as quick breads tend to do. They almost always get better as they mature, and by the time I was down to this last end piece, I was seriously regretting bringing nearly half the loaf to my neighbors [...]

I have to get something off my chest. I’d already been feeling guilty that I hadn’t posted a main course in a while because I know sometimes people are just like, gimme something to make for dinner tonight, and yo, where’s the beef? And then I was looking over my ridiculously long queue (I say [...]

So you know how a recipe calls for 1 cup pumpkin puree, so you open a can of pumpkin, then you have like almost a cup left over, and so you find another pumpkin recipe so you can use up the leftover pumpkin, but it calls for a whole can of pumpkin, so you have [...]

We had some truly delicious spaghetti squash at a friend’s house the other night. It was simply prepared, mixed with tomato sauce and zucchini and garlic and onions and herbs and maybe peppers (I can’t remember exactly), but it was just so good and perfectly seasoned. I knew that if I attempted to replicate it [...]

I fell in love with this dessert when I made it for the first time last fall because it is so frickin’ weird. It’s like nothing you’ve ever tasted before. The top is like a crusty meringue but better because whole eggs are used, not just the whites. Underneath the crackly top is a sweet, [...]

I have a real big problem with Indian food, not because it gave me horrible, debilitating food poisoning the last two days of my honeymoon in Africa, but because whenever I try to cook it at home it just outright refuses to taste like anything even close to authentic. Great Indian food, especially when it’s [...]

Wow! Way to take completely inedible, well-past-their-prime tomatoes and turn them into a sweet and lovely concoction you’ll want to dump onto just about everything. To the husband, “everything” includes salads. Salads composed of green leaf lettuce and crumbled blue cheese. I do not endorse this. Instead, you should use this chutney as an excuse [...]

I had this brief moment of panic yesterday when I realized I hadn’t made anything special for Halloween. I considered ditching my friend’s party last night, sending the husband out by himself to deliver the message that I needed to stay home to make homemade versions of candy bars, like Twix or Whatchamacallits, so I [...]

Sometimes I don’t have anything particularly illuminating to say about a recipe but I really like the photos. I wouldn’t want to deprive you of some baby pear porn, so here goes.

Turkey sausage! Turkey sausage. I wouldn’t want anyone to think I was cooking treif in my home. But I also don’t want to discourage anyone else from using pork sausage. In fact, I think you should make this with pork sausage and invite me over for dinner tonight. Oh wait, I can’t do it tonight. [...]

In the process of deciding whether or not I liked these cookies, I ate about 30 of them. I asked the husband for help: “What do you think of the cookies?” “They’re good.” “Are they pumpkiny?” “Yeah.” I eventually decided I liked them, the main reason being that they got better as time went on, [...]

This is, to me, what cheesesteak pie is to the husband. It’s the best thing ever. Since I made it, I’ve been thinking about it nonstop. I want to eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In fact, I’m eating it right now. I think I may have to go out and buy another butternut squash [...]

No bells and whistles here, just your path to simple, perfectly cooked Brussels sprouts. The trick here is in the preliminary blanching, which can be done up to 24 hours in advance of the final cooking. Next, the sprouts are heated in butter on the stovetop until sizzling, placed in the oven and baked, and [...]