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 [...]

If anyone ever gets wind of me deciding to spend my one day off making homemade ravioli again, please please try to talk me out of it. Call me up and tell me it’s really not necessary, that instead I should put my feet up and relax. I probably won’t pick up but you can leave [...]

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.

I have a huge pink recipe binder full of clippings from magazines and newspapers and annotated printouts from blogs and emails, as well as handwritten recipes on index cards from grandmothers, but I’m pretty sure this is the only recipe in there that I actually typed up as a Word document, printed out, and three-hole [...]

Behold. The mac and cheese that has ruined mac and cheese for me, that has turned me into such a huge mac and cheese snob that I’ve found I have to feign enthusiasm at restaurants when people suggest ordering a couple sides of it for the table. I just know I’ll be disappointed. Bacon it [...]

The husband said that if I ever wanted to make a noodle kugel to, ya know, just have in the fridge, he would eat it. I thought this was his way of asking me to make noodle kugel, and I was happy to oblige because it’s one of those things I need to know about, [...]

Your eyes do not deceive you. This is in fact cheesesteak pie, birthday dinner number two. For those of you who don’t know what I’m referring to, allow me to get you up to speed. For his birthday my husband requested that I make him three separate dinners (every time I read this it seems [...]

We may have to emphasize quantity over quality this week. I didn’t even know where to start. I have eight posts queued up and not one is expendable. For no justifiable reason I am panicked about this and maybe just maybe a bit scatterbrained. Also, I’m losing a lot of hair. Does that happen from [...]

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 with the boeuf bourguignon and the braised short ribs, I made this quiche the night before I planned to eat it and holy mother, I really need to remember to take sleeping pills the next time I do that because the smell is so permeating and intoxicating, and the anticipation of eating so great, [...]

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 [...]