Apartment Therapy: Main Dish

Weeknight Meal: Thin Crust Pizza...Revisited!

There may just be a new Top Crust in town, ladies and gentlemen! We've loved and cherished our thin crust pizza dough for years, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little variety! Last night we n...

Living the DIY Wedding: Smoked Fish and a Woven Mat of Leeks

I cooked all the food for my own wedding (50 attendees) a couple of weeks ago. Well, I didn't cook everything. I bought 25 pounds of smoked fish from Acme Smoked Fish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They smo...

Weeknight Meal Tip: Simmer Sauces

Simmer sauces are an easy and healthy way to make a quick, delicious meal for your family. It's simple - add your choice of vegetables, tofu, meat, chicken, or seafood to a pan, add a jar of simmer s...

Ingredient Spotlight: Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti squash is a cylinder-shaped squash that ranges in color from pale yellow to canary yellow. Do you know why it's called spaghetti squash?...

In Eric Gower's Kitchen: The Barefoot Stir-fry

When I visited Eric Gower last month for a kitchen tour, I was also invited to stay for lunch, which turned into a lesson on how to make fried rice, breakaway style. It took Eric all of seven minutes...

How To Bake Salmon Fillets

Good salmon is at a premium these days. Dana recently wrote about her special splurge on truly wild salmon. We've also reported on the increasing rarity of really well-raised salmon. We do anticipate ...

Top Chef-Inspired Recipe: Asparagus, Goat Cheese and Orange Pizza

Top Chef Chicago was our favorite season yet (OK, we're a little biased here in the Windy City). In fact, even one of the losing dishes inspired us. Remember episode 7, the Second City improv challe...

Recipe: Cold Peanut Sesame Noodles

We don't need to remind everyone that there's a serious heat wave washing over much of the country right now. How about we just give you something cool to serve for supper? ...

Recipe: Asparagus Spread and Prosciutto on Buttered Toast

This recipe came about as a result of asparagus fatigue. We love asparagus, and local ones are everywhere right now, but there are only so many things to do with them — roast, blanch, chop up into...

Recipe: Summer Main Course Salad with Beans and Basil

It might seem strange to start a salad recipe by talking about a sausage. But when a friend gave us some beautiful homemade links, we immediately thought of the classic Tuscan sausage and cannellini b...

Recipe: Roasted Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Goat Cheese and Fresh Garlic

This recipe is a classic example of us cooking by feel. We had some goat cheese leftover from an appetizer (which we wrote about last week) and found fresh, green garlic at the farmer's market. So we ...

Recipe: Stuffed Artichokes

Remember when we contemplated the first meal cooked in our new apartment? Well, this was it. A little off-the-beaten-path for us, but it's an old family recipe that we'd been wanting to make......

Recipe: Old-Fashioned Juicy Burgers

Memorial Day means burgers and beers - the kind of comfort food that pleases a crowd, and signals the start of summer. There are hundreds of ways to make a burger, but here's an old family recipe wh...

Recipe: Spring Lemon Risotto with Asparagus and Fiddlehead Ferns

After two weeks away from our kitchen, we returned last week to find the market positively brimming with spring vegetables. When we'd left there were only the first signs of ramps, but now there was ...

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: Tofu Stir-Fry with Snow Peas and Mushrooms

For years, we've been trying to duplicate the kind of tofu we're served at Chinese restaurants. Finally, we think we're on the right track. The secret is dredging the chunks of cut tofu in cornstarch...

Recipe: Rice and Mixed Greens Salad with Dates, Cashews, and Chickpeas

This was a tough recipe to name. There's a lot going on in this salad. To be fair — and we're not sure how we feel about admitting this — we could have named it the "Top Chef-Inspired Salad," si...

Recipe: Basic Tomato Sauce (with Optional Zing!)

For the sauce-hungry crowd, here is a basic tomato sauce, with some lemony and spicy elements for adding an optional zing. It's easy, quick, and isn't a boring old sauce. Basic sauces were one of th...

Recipe: Quick and Easy Black Bean Soup

When held up against the fresh, mouth-watering produce at farmer's markets, canned foods can definitely pale in comparison (to say the least). But they have their time and place too! This soup recipe...

Recipe: Grilled Potato, Gorgonzola and Prosciutto Pizza

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on April 17th. To sign up for our weekly email (not daily as the box indicates) sign up in the column to the left or click here. M...

Recipe: Linguine with Mussels and Dandelion Greens

For some reason we often find ourselves shying away from the seafood section at the grocery store. Particularly with shellfish, there's an intimidation factor that just isn't there with chicken or ste...

Italian Template Recipe: Pasta, Meat, Greens and Cheese

We've been talking about cooking without recipes a lot lately. We're exploring flavors from world cuisines and ingredients that play well together. Another way to approach cooking instinctively is t...

Recipe: Spelt Farotto with Tuna and Artichokes

We talked last week about our newfound passion for spelt berries - an ancient grain with a delicious nuttiness and chewy texture. We are substituting it for rice, couscous, and even pasta in some reci...

Recipe: John Besh's Louisiana Speckled Trout Amandine

On my recent trip to New Orleans, I had the pleasure of tasting some incredible food, from classic po' boys to quite elegant, Bayou-inspired cuisine. My first night there a whole gaggle of food journ...

Recipe: Pecan Crusted Salmon with Sautéed Ramps and Purple Potatoes

With those glorious spring ramps in hand, we wanted to make something special. We thought about simply sautéing them, and making a ramp pseudo-carbonara with pasta, bacon, the ramps and an egg, or ma...

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