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This was my second time cooking farro. My first attempt didn’t go so well. I don’t think the recipe itself was the problem...

I made these cookies last Christmas and never managed to take a photo of them. I made them again this Christmas and only r...

I was in serious danger of getting tired of butternut squash. The squash = winter equation is so ingrained in me, and I ha...

Despite hailing from Minnesota, one of the nation’s foremost centers of casserole (or, as we call it, “hot dish”) technolo...

When I named Roasted Cherry Tomatoes as one of my top 10 2012 recipes , I mentioned that I’d finally managed to do somet...

I have a dim recollection of liking canned cream of mushroom soup when I was a kid, but I hadn’t thought much about it in ...

This is the salad I served with the pumpkin ricotta gnocchi . It’s not revolutionary—strikingly similar to other kale sal...

I think approximately 85% of the Internet is “year in review” lists this week. At some point in January I usually choose favorite recipe...

Sorry I’ve been missing in action for the past month; I’m cooking as regularly as always, if perhaps less ambitiously, but...

This was my (belated) nod to Oktoberfest. I based it on a simpler recipe from Dinner: A Love Story (the book version of ...

I feel like this barely counts as a recipe, especially since I found it on the back of a package, yet I’ve made it several...

I love trying new cookie recipes, because they rarely if ever turn out badly. In this case, how could adding pumpkin and s...

I dogeared this page in the January 2012 issue of Cooking Light , but I didn’t manage to make it before the weather got wa...

Usually when I alter a recipe, it’s to cut corners, but here’s a rare instance where I made something about 10 times more ...

I do feel like I’m reaching max capacity for pureed orange vegetable soups here (five carrot, four butternut squash), but ...

I had nearly a full package of peanuts left over after making the peanut-lime chicken-noodle salad , so I decided to cross...

A quick search of my blog archives confirms that this is the time when, like clockwork, I habitually complain that autumn...

This recipe (from Bon Appetit via Dinner With Julie ) had been sitting in my Delicious bookmarks for nearly a year, inti...