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I’m a latecomer to avocados; I didn’t even start liking guacamole until my college years, when I tasted the good stuff in Mexico. But moving...

Every year at about this time, I crave coconut cake. That’s because when I was little, my mom would always make me a birthday cake shaped li...

Quinoa! It looks kinda freaky (something about all those tiny dots just makes me uncomfortable, the way fish roe does), but it tastes delici...

It will surprise exactly no one that the combination of green beans and bacon turns out to be excellent. I tore this recipe out of the Nove...

BBQ chicken pizza is apparently the most popular offering at California Pizza Kitchen (at least, according to the website ), but I’ve never...

We lucked into a big bag of Meyer lemons from A's friend's family's tree (inheriting large sacks of citrus fruit being one of th...

I used to claim that I didn’t like cooked fruit at all, and then that I didn’t like it in savory contexts, but lately there’s been a lot of...

I’ve mentioned it before: I’m just not a muffin person. (This despite the fact that my first cat was named Muffin. Hey, what can I say? I wa...

First fennel, then sweet potatoes, and now parsnips? 2010 has thus far apparently been The Year of New Vegetables , or at least The Year Whe...

This was my first time cooking pork chops. I think it was also my first time eating pork chops since childhood, when I distinctly disliked ...

I can scarcely express how much I love this ice cream. I like honey and I like vanilla, so I didn’t doubt that they would be good when mixed...

Just when I start thinking it’s time to put a moratorium on acquiring new pasta recipes when I have so damn many already , I keep stumbling ...

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 ...