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I love a good fritter, and after making chili-lime roasted squash salad recently, I’ve been intrigued by the combination...

I have long professed myself a disliker of cauliflower. I always thought of it as having a cabbagey taste and smell (I lo...

Can you believe this was my first time making a raw fennel salad at home? I fell in love with cooked fennel a couple of y...

I feel like I rambled a lot in my last entry, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet...much like these carrots! Despite ...

Even though they’ve become trendy as a “superfood” (I just can’t bring myself to use that word without the scare quotes),...

When I was first getting to know A, one anecdote he told made a particularly vivid impression on me: When he was a little...

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...