Weekend recipe: Beef braised in red wine
A rich beef braise recipe from Marcella Hazan, tailor-made for a cool weekend.
View ArticleEasy rain-day recipe: Pasta with Roast chicken, raisins and pine nuts
Leave it to Darina Allen, the queen of Irish cuisine, to provide this lovely recipe for a midweek rainy day supper. Make it the way she suggests, or pick up a rotisserie chicken and save yourself a...
View ArticleRecipe: Pumpkin Stuffed with Everything Good (including bacon)
This is a pumpkin. A sugar pumpkin. They are spilling out of the grocery stores these days. What to do with it? You have two choices. You can hollow it out and make a jack-o-lantern, or you can do what...
View ArticleWhat to do when your cake fails. (Hint: Eat it anyway.)
The other day, a generous friend gave me a giant pattypan squash. But, after two solid weeks of eating pumpkins, butternuts, buttercups, delicatas, acorns and kabochas, I just wasn't up for roasting...
View ArticleTen minute dinner makeover: Add toasted breadcrumbs.
The coming of cold, wet weather prompts a flaring up of my chronic obsession with breadcrumbs, which are woefully underused in contemporary home kitchens. Consider: They add to just about every supper,...
View ArticleCocktail recipe: Conjure summer with a negroni
There are few cocktails in the rapidly-expanding cocktail canon that I enjoy more than a carefully-stirred negroni. The drink is an easy one to make: Equal parts gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, more...
View ArticleCupboard-diving for dinner: Farro with sopressata and chickpeas (sort of a...
I'm all for recipes, but even more, I love those meals that take shape from a free-floating scrouge through the cabinets. Like this one from a few nights ago. It was cold out. OK, not that cold, but I...
View ArticleDinner party recipe: Beef Daube
Here's how it happens, when you've invited 10 people for dinner. You make a beef daube. That way, you’re done cooking before anyone arrives, and you even have time to put on a clean shirt. The trick to...
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