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I’m not going to beat around the bush here: The salsa in this recipe (from Tyler Florence at the Food Network site , via My Husband Hates Ve...

I can’t believe that at the ripe old age of 33, I’m still learning mind-blowing new facts such as this: It’s possible to roast the seeds of ...

This is fall wrapped in a tortilla, baby. Sharp mustard, creamy Brie, sweet crisp apple, and peppery arugula are a match made in heaven. (By...

Aw yeah. Now, I’m not one of those people who goes gaga for pumpkin-flavored things every October. In fact, this was the first time in my li...

Hmm. Instead of “Recipes I Was Too Lame or Indecisive to Post the First Time Around,” how about we place this in the more-adventuresome-soun...

I can take or leave a baked potato. Certainly I’ve never been attracted by the classic version with all the fixin’s; as a child I had a dis...

A tasty and amazingly fast (if you roast the garlic ahead of time) quinoa recipe from Cooking Light . I doubled the quantities, as recommend...

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...