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Autumn is officially here and so is my craving for kale. And sausage. And pasta. But there are still lovely summer tomatoes at the farmers’ ...

Yeah, as I’ve mentioned , I’m totally obsessed with corn this summer, and even though I’ve been eating it in record quantities, I’m not sick...

This may seem similar to a Cooking Light potatoes-and-corn-and-other-vegetables-in-Dijon-vinaigrette salad I tried earlier this summer , bu...

With cooler weather upon us but the farmers’ market still full of summer fruit, I figured now would be the perfect time to make some ice cre...

I visited England three times in the mid-to-late 1990s, and on the third trip, 13 years ago last week, I met A. I immediately introduced him...

This is a perfect end-of-summer soup, sweet and light and loaded with lots of fresh garden veggies, yet with the savory, comforting quality...

I apologize: To do full justice to the magic of magic juice, the above photograph should have been taken on a sunny porch, not in my dark ap...

We were going on a picnic, and I had a sudden desire for sandwiches. I never really make sandwiches, except for grilled cheese and BLTs and—...

How convenient: Just a few weeks ago I was saying I wanted to try oatmeal pancakes, and then the September issue of Cooking Light arrived ...

If you’re like me and you enjoy making jam more than you like eating it, or if you know someone like me who persists in giving you homemade ...

First there was vacation, then recovering from vacation. Now I’m finally ready to get to work on this recipe backlog! Conveniently, cooler w...

I’ve discussed this before , but I have a weird aversion to green salad recipes. Unless it’s really complex or has an exotic feature (lik...

I don’t know which is more surprising: the fact that I’m actually posting this in the same week I cooked it (I’ve been lagging behind for wh...

I get all excited whenever a shiny new Cooking Light arrives, but these days (dare I say since its dumbed-down redesign?), I only seem to f...

Here’s a handy tip for summer: if you have extra arugula (which I often do, because I like it on my BLTs, but that uses just a fraction of a...

I’m salad-obsessed. It must be the weather. I’m also, ever since my quinoa tabbouleh and chicken gyros successes, Mediterranean-obsessed. ...

I wanted fish tacos. And lo, I did make them. The End. Except I’m not sure I know why I wanted fish tacos, considering I’ve eaten them m...

Ever since Christmas, there’s been a box of Candy Cane Jo-Jo’s waiting patiently in my freezer for exactly this purpose. Cookies and cream i...

We’ve gone blueberry picking in Somis every June for the past three years, and each time we come home with more berries. This year we harves...

I’m pretty picky about using recipes only from reliable sources, and so most of the ones I make are from cookbooks, magazines, or blogs I re...