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Yes, another salad with bacon and another mustard vinaigrette . I just can’t help myself! This one has a convoluted story: Along with...

Brilliance, thy name is baked oatmeal. I love oatmeal—I’m a sucker for it in baked goods and have been known to snack upon handfuls of raw o...

I’m on a major kale kick lately, so I finally got up the gumption to try this recipe from Jack Bishop’s Pasta e Verdura . It’s one of my fav...

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...

So it’s official: We like fennel! Fresh on the heels of our delicious fennel pizza comes this delectable pasta from Bon Appetit , which I ...

My old standby recipe for potato-leek soup with plenty of dill and lemon is among my favorites, but it verges on the plain, and apparently ...

I said that coconut-apricot cookies are my favorite holiday treat that I make, but I am a good Scandinavian, and there’s no doubt that spr...

It was the photo that lured me into making this recipe from The Kitchn (go and look at it, because my picture sucks with a suckiness I can ...

Of all the treats I routinely make for Christmas, these may be my favorite—and they don’t even have chocolate in them. Almost every recipe I...

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 ...

Aaaaand…we’re back to cookies. Spice cookies (gingerbread, pfeffernusse, etc.) are traditional at Christmas, but I can never muster up much ...

We interrupt Cookiefest to bring you a salad break—and I’m sure we could all use one, right? This recipe from Jamie Oliver (via Serious Ea...

Even though my favorite way to celebrate Christmas is by making, giving, receiving, and eating homemade goodies, one of my most beloved holi...

We always have almond bark for Christmas, but I’d never really heard of or eaten peppermint bark before I got an itch to make peppermint bar...

Happy new year! I know that after the holidays know we’re all sick of sweets and snacks and trying to eat light and healthy fare. Believe me...

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 ...