Apartment Therapy: Side Dish

Living the DIY Wedding: The Food

I got married a week ago. Instead of the usual fears -commitment, weather, stepkids' sabotage - I spent the weeks leading up to the event wondering if I was capable of cooking a meal for 50 hungry peo...

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...

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: Roasted Beet Salad with Barley, Feta, and Red Onion

Beet salad! Yum! Though this one could have just as easily been called "Barley Salad with Beets, Feta, and Red Onion." Or "Beet and Feta Salad with..." Ok, you get the idea. The real point is that w...

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...

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: Guacamole

With the weather turning warmer, we find ourselves turning to lighter meals and nibbles. Healthy dips and spreads such as muhammara are finding their way onto our plates more often in recent weeks. ...

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: 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: 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: 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...

Weekend Cooking: Braised Radishes (Again) - This Time with Rice Vinegar and Mint

Mmmm....spring radishes. We liked the braised radishes that we made last week so much that we cooked them again last night. We made a couple improvements, though - this batch was crisper, lighter, mor...

Recipe: Spring Radishes Braised with Shallots and Vinegar

Oh - delicious! We had spring radishes in hand last night, as we showed you. They were all shades of pink, ruby and white - very pretty. We've been meaning to try braised radishes for a long time, and...

Recipe: Cinnamon-Spiked Tomatoes

This is not a combination we would have thought of on our own. We recently enjoyed a cheese plate at a restaurant, where a hard goat cheese was paired with a tomato garnish. At first, we asked the ba...

Recipe: Borscht

We might lose our foodie card for telling you this, but we don't really like beets very much. There's something about their earthy flavor that's a bit off-putting. BUT, we love borscht.That earthine...

Passover Cooking: Huevos Haminados

These might look like Easter eggs, but actually they're a traditional treat for Passover. We asked NYC caterer and culinary consultant Sierra Spingarn to share the family recipe for Huevos Haminados. ...

Recipe: Meyer Lemon Grain Salad with Asparagus, Almonds and Goat Cheese

We are having a little fling with Meyer lemons. A friend brought us two whole bags of organic Meyer lemons from California, and we're putting them to good use. First that lusciously easy pie, and now ...

Recipe: Velvety Broccoli and Feta Pasta

Like our recent recipe for Rich No-Cream Wild Mushroom Pasta Sauce, this pasta sauce is velvety-rich and creamy, plus nubby with flecks of feta cheese. And yet it has very little fat and dairy, aside ...

Weekend Cooking: Secrets of Awesome Mashed Potatoes

We love mashed potatoes; it's one of our favorite comfort foods. We're seeing a lot of fingerling potatoes at the Farmer's Markets, so we've been making these for dinner recently. Here, we'll share s...

Recipe: Rosemary Roast Potatoes

You just can't get a much better flavor pairing than rosemary and potatoes. The pine-y rosemary perfumes the earthy potatoes just so. It's a classic combination that we never get tired of tasting.Thes...

Recipe: Spring Leek and Lemon Soup

In with spring and out with winter - but don't let go of your winter citrus just yet. This soup bridges the divide between fresh spring produce and the zip of winter citrus like oranges, lemons, and g...

San Francisco Farmer's Market Recipe: Kohlrabi Slaw

With winter on the way out, we've been trying to come up with creative ways to use up the remaining surplus of cold weather vegetables such as beets, carrots, kohlrabi, cabbage, and broccoli. One veg...

Recipe: Simple Rice Pilaf

Pilaf makes a quick and elegant side dish to almost any meal. You can buy pilaf mixes at the grocery store, but we think it's just as easy--or easier--to make it yourself and then fancy it up with wha...

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