So I know I just posted a kale salad recipe, but you can never have too much raw kale in your diet, kiddies.

Bring this to Thanksgiving this year only if you want the majority of your family and friends to glower and sneer. It’s a slawlike salad of finely shredded kale and sliced brussels sprouts, topped with toasted walnuts and parmesan, and dressed in a mustard vinaigrette; Bon Appetit advertises that it will “cut through the richness [...]

The span of days between posts is creeping to greater and greater numbers, and I’ve been going back and forth between feeling guilty and defensive, between wanting to explain/justify/apologize for this obvious lapse and wanting to ignore it, pretend it’s not happening, hoping that in the grand scheme of the blog this summer will be [...]

Ironically I’m pretty sure I’ve actually lost weight since becoming a full-fledged baker/pastry chef/chef or whatever I am nowadays. The sweltering heat of my basement kitchen is utterly appetite-killing; the prospect of having to taste test a new scone or muffin, vomit-inducing. I throw back glass after glass of icy water yet rarely pee. All [...]

I wasn’t sure exactly how many beets I’d need for the ice cream, so I overbought, planning to make one of my favorite salads with the extra. There’s nothing revolutionary about pairing beets and goat cheese, I know, but there’s a reason everyone does it. Sweet, earthy, firm beets are simply perfect with slightly tangy, [...]

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 [...]

Back when I made that Spring Panzanella, I decided I was going to do one for every season. This is the summer one. Oh. You got that? So I was eating this and I was thoroughly enjoying it, but then I realized that I was leaving a lot of the bread at the bottom of my [...]

As many of you know because you were there, I recently took a ‘lil cruise (where to? irrelevant), and delightfully stuffed my face with escargot soaked in pools of butter, greasy cheeseburgers, unlimited French fries and onion rings, milkshakes, chorizo pizza, midnight corn dogs (corn dogs!), sausage rolls, chocolate fondue…wow, I’ll stop now before I embarrass myself [...]

Summer is all about the cold or room temperature side dishes whipped up in the kitchen while (at the risk of being sexist here) your manly man is manning the grill. Here’s a classic three-bean salad for all your summer barbecue needs. It’s very sweet and tangy, with black-eyed peas added for a Southern twist, and because they’re [...]

with Parmesan, Hazelnuts, and Avocado My original intention was to make this as a first course along with something else I had planned. But this salad was looking so delicious as it was coming together, and I was feeling lazy (that’s what 95 degree heat will do to you), plus the husband wasn’t coming home for dinner anyway, so I [...]

It’s not officially spring until the asparagus stalks rear their precious little heads. Finally, the farmer’s market is overflowing with bunches of them charmingly tied up with twine. There’s a myriad of ways to cook and serve asparagus: you can roast it, grill it, saute it, stir-fry it, you can serve it with a poached or fried [...]

When we were in Portugal (waaayyy back in the day, 2004), we ate seafood for pretty much every meal. There were all of these outdoor restaurants lining the streets, and at many of them, they’d have their fresh seafood displayed in a refrigerator case and you could choose exactly which piece of fish you wanted. [...]