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.

I hope you didn’t get too excited over there because these stuffed peppers were terrible. So bad, in fact, that I may do something I never, ever do: throw out the leftovers. Wasting food seems sinful to me, but what’s worse? Tilting the container of leftover peppers into the garbage and pretending they never happened, [...]

There is this thing called Thanksgiving Part II the Sequel. It’s one family’s answer to a dilemma many of us face every year: two (or more) Thanksgiving dinners to attend. Rather than compete with all those other gatherings, Thanksgiving Part II the Sequel has forged its own path and carved out a place for itself [...]

I care less and less about dinner these days. I would never skip it outright, but I’ve begun to think of it as a mere stepping stone on the way to dessert. While the husband would rather have another helping of stir-fry or pasta or chicken or what-have-you, I’m gobbling down my main course in eager [...]

with Roasted Potatoes, Buttered Peas, and, for dessert, Individual Molten Chocolate Cakes There seems to be a prevailing notion out there that everything’s better with bacon. Which is, I presume, why this dish is hailed as “certainly one of the most delicious beef dishes concocted by man.” Strong statement, Julia, strong statement. True? I wouldn’t [...]