Bookcook

I was totally on a roll with nifty one-pan dinner solutions this spring. This one from Food52 was a particularly casual-t...

And still another veggie makes its Bookcook debut! Clearly, I’ve been feeling experimental lately. (Is it sad when one of ...

This soup might look familiar. It’s apparently based on Olive Garden’s “Zuppa Toscana,”* and it’s quite the Internet sensa...

The Cauliflower Chronicles continue. Of course the surest way for me to enjoy a new vegetable is on pasta, but it took me ...

Now that it’s legitimately cold in Southern California and the El Niño rains are starting and a steaming bowl of soup soun...

I’m extra pleased with this one because I invented it myself. I know, putting toppings on a pizza isn’t exactly rocket scie...

You can tell I’m still catching up on recipes from a few months ago, when all these vegetable soups were just what I need...

This was my (belated) nod to Oktoberfest. I based it on a simpler recipe from Dinner: A Love Story (the book version of ...

Once I get interested in a food I can get a little obsessive about it (see: poached eggs, quinoa, feta, fritters), especia...

Even though I’m not actively trying to accumulate new pasta recipes (because I already have more than I can make in a year), every now and t...

Genius: Beans + sausage + cherry tomatoes + aromatics + oven = a simple version of cassoulet. Hearty but not heavy, comforting, flavorful, a...

I did a pretty good job of overcoming my slight resentment of main-dish salads this past summer; thanks to recipes like this , this , and t...

Even though mushrooms and sausage are my favorite traditional pizza toppings, and mushroom-sausage-onion is my go-to order at Pizza Hut (I ...

Autumn is officially here and so is my craving for kale. And sausage. And pasta. But there are still lovely summer tomatoes at the farmers’ ...

Potatoes and sausage seem like such an obvious pizza-topping combination that I’m surprised I haven’t tried it already. I mean, I’ve got piz...

Every now and then (about twice per winter, on the darkest and wettest of days) I get a hankering for lentils. Luckily, I have a good recip...

Even though I consider myself a major vegetable fan, I hadn’t really tried fennel before (the bulb, I mean; my father loves fennel seed and ...

This recipe, originally from Serious Eats , wasn't the quickest thing I've ever cooked (in addition to the long baking time, there a...

This is one of the easiest and best improvisational dishes I’ve tried in a while. I just wish I’d thought of it first, but the credit goes t...

Ever sit there at Thanksgiving, digging your fork into a second (or third; who am I to judge?) helping of stuffing (or “dressing,” as some c...