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Recipe: Double Corn Bread with Smoked Mozzarella and Sun-Dried Tomatoes

There's quite a debate going at our earlier post about sweet versus savory cornbread. It seems like many of you feel strongly about the matter! Well, for those of you who love the savory stuff, here's...

Cooking Without Recipes: How To Make Streusel or Crumble Topping for Baked Fruit

We've been talking consistently this month about learning to cook without recipes. We have a few formulas and basic recipes that let us create free-form dishes on the spur of the moment. When it comes...

Recipe: Egg, Arugula, and Herb Tartine

A tartine is really just a fancy name for an open-faced sandwich. It sounds so much more elegant than sandwich, doesn't it? It seems fitting for this impromptu lunch we had this week. We were pressed ...

Recipe: Zucchini and Asparagus Strata

We're ready to hit the Chicago farmer's markets this week and stock up on all the super-fresh local produce we've been craving since last fall. We'll most likely be bringing home as much as we can car...

Recipe: Breakfast Pizza

Recipe: Fluffy Ricotta Pancakes

This past weekend, we looked at the leftover lemon curd in our refrigerator and thought, "That lemon curd needs a friend. That lemon curd needs a pancake." And so, these extra fluffy, delicious rico...

Recipe: Overnight Oatmeal with Apricots and Buttermilk

When we gave away those Crock-Pot Versaware slow cookers, we asked readers what they would make in their slow cooker. Reader Louie C said that she would make overnight oatmeal with buttermilk and apri...

Recipe: Breakfast Poha

In Devesh and Tara's Spice Pantry kitchen tour we were led on an Indian spice adventure in Tara and Devesh’s Manhattan apartment. Devesh shared two recipes: one for a typical western India breakfast...

Recipe: How to Make Hollandaise Sauce

During the week, I'm often too busy to cook breakfast, but as the weekend approaches, I start making mental menus for Saturday and Sunday morning. Freshly brewed coffee, fruit salad, toast with jam, ...

Breakfast for Lunch: Steel-Cut Oats with Dates, Coconut, Cinnamon and Pecans

Do you ever eat breakfast for lunch? Today we wanted a bowlful of those pearly steel-cut oats, hot and fragrant. Here are the other things we threw in... ...

Hunk o' Fruit: Bill Granger's Oat, Pear, and Raspberry Loaf

It's not often that we buy a cookbook for just one recipe, but we confess we did that here. All it took was one photo... ...

Doing More With Less: The Bagel and Lox Edition

We've tackled the problem of rising food costs in the past and you've come up with great suggestions like these for how to keep your own kitchen up to restaurant standards without paying restaurant ...

Recipe: "Ham and Cheese" Breakfast Casserole

We ate a lot of breakfast casseroles growing up. Any time there was a crowd to be fed before noon, this baked dish of egg, sausage, cheese, and day-old bread would appear. And yet, as adults, we've ...

Recipe: Easy Ethereal Popovers

At the risk of waxing overly rhapsodic, popovers might just be the ideal winter food. In spite of their reputation as fickle and disaster-prone, these quick breads couldn't be simpler to make - and...

Recipe: The Merritt Parkway Breakfast Sandwich

It is universally true for all cuisines and palates that the combination of carbohydrates and fat produces the most delicious food. The breakfast sandwich, once placed on menus for those who'd self-...

Bittersweet Honorable Mention: Best With Morning Coffee

Oh how we love homemade granola! We've shared our homemade granola formula and our favorite storebought oat crack...err granola. So even though this granola recipe from Spring didn't quite meet ou...

Bittersweet Baking Finalist #1: Candied Kumquat & Bittersweet Chocolate Cherry Mini Galettes

Our first finalist is in, and it was a unanimous choice from the large, diverse set of entries we received in our Bittersweet Baking contest. Our editorial team was won over by Helen's simple and...

Recipe: Peach and Spice Tea Muffins

There's nothing like a hot, steaming muffin and a cup of tea to get us out of bed in the morning. Muffins are portable and endlessly flexible; nearly any quick bread or cupcake recipe can be made in...

The Celluloid Pantry: One Egg Dish, Three Movies: Moonstruck (1987), Moon Over Miami (1941), and V for Vendetta (2005)

Question: What do an 80s romantic comedy starring Cher, a 40s musical chock full of Betty Grable song and dance numbers, and a recent futuristic film based on a darkly subversive graphic novel have in...

Recipe: Fresh Cranberry Scones

Fresh tart cranberries - we take advantage of their abundance this time of year and pack them into everything. These traditional scones are flaky and not too sweet, with pops of brilliant cranberry ...

Recipe: Pumpkin Crumb Cakes

Pumpkin crumb cakes - they're one of our favorite pumpkin recipes. This is a flexible recipe; you can make it in one big pan, or as individual babycakes like we did here. There's tender yellow cake ...

Recipe: Plum and Fig Flognarde

Italian prune plums are in season, and these tiny oval plums are delightful for baking. They soften and run into plummy jam in the oven. These and figs are a perfect fall pairing, which is why we pu...

Recipe: Plum and Earl Grey Preserves

Plums are in season, and we have been busy thinking up more ways to use them. We were inspired by Heidi Swanson's Rosewater Plum Compote a couple weeks ago, and we set out to make our own plum sauce...

Recipe: Plum Coffeecake with Cinnamon Streusel

This is a company-for-breakfast cake, one of those easy, old-fashioned coffeecakes that can be whipped up at an hour's notice when your in-laws come into town for the weekend. It smells like cinnamo...