I made this chicken last week, which will forever be known as Ice Cream Week (decision still pending on that project, btw), and I keep forgetting that I need to tell you about it. I’ve been too busy gallivanting around in this gorgeous sunshine, walking along the Hudson River Park and the High Line, making [...]

Wait, what is this? Oh riiight, it’s that soup I made back I have no idea when. But I remember it being good, real good, like a peanut soup but with almond butter instead of peanut butter, aromatic of fresh ginger and lime, and with collard greens and sweet potatoes thrown in for…a bit of [...]

“How the hell does one complicate a roast chicken?!?!” was the response I got when I texted my cousin that I’d made a really good roast chicken, “but it was a complicated one.” How does one turn a dish that should be simple and straightforward into a four-hour-long headache of loads of dirtied pots and [...]

If you’re looking for an easy, last-minute pigs in blankets recipe for this Sunday, allow me to redirect you. If something a little more anxiety-inducing and time-consuming was what you had in mind, then you’ve come to the right place.

Does chicken with roasted grapes sound a little odd to you? It did to me, which is why I needed to make it.

My first encounter with turkey legs was traumatic. Early on in our courtship, the husband and I took a trip to Disney World (yes, we were still basically children). And there was this place in the Magic Kingdom, in Frontierland, that sold smoked turkey legs. We figured they had to be amazing because all the obese [...]

This is the week of ridiculously quick and easy pan sauces. Like, requires-three-ingredients-takes-two-minutes quick and easy. It’s also the week of working through some of the recipes I tore out of my Gourmets over the years. Sigh. They really make me miss that magazine. There were so many dishes like this one and the salmon, [...]

You know the peaches are good when there’s a whole beehive’s worth of bees buzzing around them. And you know you really want some of those peaches when you’re willing to just thrust your arms right into the danger zone. I’ve had more close encounters with bees this summer than I’d care to. Not that I’d [...]

Well now that summer’s in full swing, an oven-roasted chicken is probably one of the last things you want to be making, right? In fact, I’ve probably picked the worst possible day to present you with this recipe, what with temperatures in these parts reaching record highs. You’d probably prefer a recipe for, say, beer-can [...]

I got a request for more main courses on the site and so, in an effort to provide one person with near-instant gratification, I whipped up one of my old standbys, and I’m just going to have out with it: this is a Rachael Ray recipe. Yes, yes, we all despise her. We detest her stupid [...]

I was on the phone with my mom the other day and she was telling me about a recipe she made (story of our lives): roasted chicken breasts served atop pumpkin-sage grits. You scoop up some of the grits with your fork, she said, then you pierce a piece of the chicken and mmmmmm, there’s just [...]

This is a sophisticated baked pasta that still speaks to your inner child. Slivered radicchio, normally tough and slightly bitter, submits to a simmering sauce of butter, onions, and whole peeled tomatoes, which is then enriched with cream. Parbaked pasta is layered with the sauce, diced fresh mozzarella, and melt-in-your-mouth mini chicken meatballs that have been coated in flour [...]

Sometimes things get a little, um, frenetic in this kitchen, and you know what doesn’t help the situation? Me attempting to string up a bizarre lighting contraption with a dangling cord in an effort to improve the food photography, which really just resulted in me feeling like I had a freakin spotlight shining on me [...]

Once in a great while, a recipe comes along that I am so enamored with, it gets awarded a permanent spot in my repertoire. This is a very special honor because I am always wanting to make new things, of course, and so a repeat performance is rare. So in honor of Valentine’s Day, I’d [...]