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Holy cow, I made biscuits! Honest-to-goodness, delicious biscuits! And it was so incredibly easy! OK, biscuits may not be the hardest thing ...

Oh, yum. I spotted this why-didn’t-I-think-of-it recipe in Pioneer Woman ’s brand-new cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks . I love her humor...

I know this photo looks pretty much exactly like the one for pear butter , but it's just a trick of the light, I swear! The apple butter...

This brilliant, easier-than-pie little chicken recipe from The Hungry Mouse tastes about like what you'd expect, but that's hardly ...

I still have several pounds of beans from the Rancho Gordo samplers I received last Christmas, and now that the weather’s grown cool enough...

Searching for a pear butter recipe to add to my burgeoning jam collection, I found this one on Epicurious and was instantly smitten with th...

Ta-da, my collection of pureed green soups is now complete! Actually, it didn’t occur to me that this soup might be a dead ringer for severa...

I don’t even remember how I stumbled across this recipe , but once I saw it, I knew that I’d have to try it, and that it would be well wor...

This recipe is a favorite of mine from Carole Walters’ indispensible Great Cookies . The original name is “Chock Full of Crunchies,” which i...

When my friend P left the country for a month and gave me temporary custody of all her canning supplies, it seemed like a good time for me t...

RIP, Gourmet magazine. I never subscribed (and thus, I suppose, could be considered complicit in your downfall), but you had consistently g...

I already have a satisfactory butternut squash soup recipe , as well as two dissatisfactory ones , so I wasn’t really in the market for ano...

Just a little over a month after discovering my new favorite salad , I’ve found its autumn counterpart in this showstopper from the Barefoot...

These are a classic variety of cookie, but I can only recall encountering them once before: when S, one of my roommates in my first post-col...

Habitual readers will already know how much I love ravioli, dumplings, and most other variants of food-stuffed-inside-other-food. It’s surpr...

Yes, another pizza recipe. I haven’t met one yet that I didn’t like. That can be reassuring, especially when one needs something new to post...

At this time of the year, I get a little cranky about living in Southern California. It’s fall—school’s started (and with it, the horrific ...

Eventually, I’m just going to end up cribbing Eggs on Sunday ’s entire Pizza category . I can’t help myself! There’s so much variety, and al...

I made this dessert with some gorgeous “dinosaur egg” pluots a couple of weeks ago, but even though it knocked my socks off and A’s too, I n...