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I've finally accepted the dearth of good pizza in L.A. and have decided to just make my own. I'm not quite energetic enough to make ...

Whoa, doesn’t this recipe title sound incredibly fancy? But really, it’s, um, baked potatoes topped with onions and cheese and some rosemary...

Good old Cooking Light delivers another successful meal. I already have a serviceable squash soup recipe , but what attracted me to this ne...

Two mom recipes in one week! She’ll be so proud. I am not a baker, but I was pleasantly surprised by how easy this bread was to make and how...

For someone who thinks America’s Test Kitchen is too fussy, why am I posting two recipes from them in one week? Well, I have to admit those ...

I love mac and cheese, though I have to admit my heart still belongs to the creamy, saucy, day-glo orange stuff (not Kraft, though—I used to...

Hi, I’m back after a long hiatus with an armload of new recipes and a determination to post them more frequently. Plus, thanks to the magic ...

Again, I’ve had this for a while and have no idea where it came from. While I didn’t have the good fortune to eat any seasoned corn like thi...

This is what we had with the corn cakes the other night. I’m surprised I haven’t posted it before, since we eat it fairly often as a summer ...

Jack Bishop: Pasta e Verdura * and Vegetables Every Day * Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour Laurie Colwin: Home Cook...

I’ve been obsessed with fresh corn this summer. Now that I’ve finally located the one vendor at my farmers’ market that sells the perfect, s...

Neither my busy schedule nor the unusually brutal Southern California temperatures (it reached 107 degrees in Pasadena the weekend before la...

This is not chocolate. It’s savory, not sweet—in fact it has nothing to do with actual fudge, except that it is, in its own way, just as ric...

This recipe is from my college friend S’s mom. S used to make it when we lived together; I remember sitting and watching TV and eating it st...

I think this is from The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook , the one book by Jack Bishop I don’t own. I photocopied it ages ago and stuck...

Wow! I’ve never been that into meatloaf before—OK, I’ve never been into meatloaf at all before, and in fact the concept of a loaf of meat ...

You'll notice that this white bean soup is not white. That's because I made it with Rancho Gordo Yellow Eye beans, which are mostly ...

Another one from Cooking Light . For some reason, it was described in the magazine as “Warm Asparagus Salad,” which...well, Merriam-Webster’...

I quit posting on Bookcook 8 months ago (eek), because I was dissatisfied with the site. My writing, while never meant to be any great work ...

One of the first recipes I’ve tried from my new Cooking Light subscription. The delectable-looking photo lured me in, plus in the last year...