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From-scratch cakes aren’t hard to make, but I only seem to do it about once per year: for A’s birthday. I’m just not much of a cake fan, par...

I have a lot of good pasta recipes . Enough, in fact, to make a different pasta recipe every week for a year. So I don’t acquire new ones l...

I’m not a huge proponent of salad recipes, although I have a few of them . It’s probably the last holdover from my years as a picky eater. W...

Yum. And also, YUM. While I do like asparagus and ricotta together (I have a good recipe for penne with asparagus and ricotta that for some ...

As soon as I saw this Ina Garten recipe mentioned as an aside in an Amateur Gourmet post , I knew it would be the perfect thing to accompan...

This recipe from Jamie magazine, which I found at A Good Appetite , is basically a deconstructed version of one of my favorite Jamie Olive...

This is the perfect pasta dish for times of the year when not much exciting produce is in season, or (in my case) when you’ve been unable to...

I am in full-on spring eating mode, which means I want to eat nothing but green, lemony things all day long. So although ordinarily I wouldn...

This is as sexy as lima beans will ever get. Of the many varieties of Rancho Gordo heirloom beans I received for Christmas, the ones I wa...

This is one of my older recipes (so old, I don’t remember where I got it and can’t find it online), and apparently I don’t make it too often...

This photo doesn't begin to do justice to the majestic roasted chicken that emerged from my oven that night. But that's only because...

Two Saturdays ago, A and I were feeling under the weather and had canceled our afternoon plans in favor of lying limply around the house. Bu...

I am inordinately pleased with myself for trying this set of recipes, and even more pleased (one might say downright smug) that I pulled the...

I chose this highly-rated recipe from Epicurious as an appropriately noble use for my Rancho Gordo midnight black beans and my new Dutch...

I made this before Christmas but didn't have time to post it, what with all the frantic baking. From Cook's Country via RecipeZaar...

Happy belated new year! After three weeks of feverish baking and canning before Christmas, two weeks in Minnesota being blissfully fed by ot...

It would never have occurred to me to put Boursin on a pizza, but I’m so glad I found this recipe from Eggs on Sunday . Spinach and garlic a...

Look, yet another way to combine vegetables with shallots and lemon! I will never tire of those flavors. This is a nice, simple-but-inter...

This. Is. Amazing. If you only make one chicken recipe from this blog, make this one. Now! Hurry! You can thank me later. I was a little sus...