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I’m going to try not to dwell on how far behind I am. Recapping all this summer’s successful recipes is apparently going t...

With—holy cow!—565 posts here already, I sometimes wonder exactly how many more recipes I have room for in my life. I woul...

I’m always on the lookout for more veggie pizza recipes, especially ones that can work as somewhat light, summery fare—sin...

Is it too late in the summer to talk about strawberry shortcake? Too bad. I’ve avoided baking traditional biscuits for mos...

 September still feels like summer here in L.A., but I know the rest of the country will be moving on to apples and pumpki...

Do I really need to explain why cheese-and-greens-stuffed dough is a good thing? I felt like putting a new spin on my pizz...

I have a bad habit of trying new vegetable side dishes and forgetting to note them here, either because I didn’t bother to...

I tend to operate under the guideline that I can eat as much dessert if I want, as long as I make it myself. My laziness u...

You’d think I would have tried every possible variety of pasta recipe by now, but no—in fact, despite having 73 already lo...

I’ve had my old reliable bread-and-tomato salad recipe for more than a decade now, but there’s always room for innovation...

 Or, My First Pie , Part II. Blueberry is not my favorite pie flavor; that honor goes to strawberry, followed by lemon m...

I’m baaaack! I’ll skip the boring excuses because I have a huge backlog of recipes to record—starting with pie! I don’t u...

So it’s official: I don’t hate cabbage anymore. I’m not apt to look at a recipe and think, “Ooh, cabbage!” but I’m willing...

Meet our new favorite salad. I feel a little silly being like, “Hey guys, look what I just discovered!” when Cobb salad ha...

I don’t get the big deal with chicken Parm, so it wasn’t the title of this recipe that drew me in—just the alluring photo ...

 I messed up big time. I first made this dish (by Melissa Clark via Elly Says Opa ) on May 7, 2013. I took a photo. I reca...

Let’s just forget about my previous cauliflower soup . That perfectly serviceable recipe made cauliflower palatable to me,...

In my 2013 roundup , I spent a lot of time lamenting how infrequently I’d blogged that year. In 2014, I reached a new all-...

I’m rushing to post this before midnight so it can be eligible for my list of favorite 2014 recipes, because there’s no do...

I first made this Smitten Kitchen recipe during a visit from my parents. I recall it being easy, elegant, and enjoyed by ...