When artichoke season begins in cold and damp March, we're eager to warm up with comforting braises and bakes. But now, at the tail end of the season, we're looking for light dishes that celebrate the...
A traditional Florentine pasta, ricotta gnocchi is the lighter, hipper cousin to northern Italy's potato gnocchi.This gnocchi cooks up as soft, mild-flavored dumplings. They make a great base for any ...
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......
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...
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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...
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...
What are you cooking for dinner tonight? Are you casting about for a quick and easy one-bowl meal? Try this one, or a variation on it - it's just pasta, meat, and greens. ...
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 ...
We've posted a recipe for Orange and Fennel Salad before now, but that was before we had a proper mandoline! When we saw this recipe for fennel salad in Rebecca Gray's book American Artisanal we just ...
Recipe for homemade calzones, to eat now or freeze for later.... ...
The key to a really good pizza is, of course, the crust. We make pizza at our house at least once a week, so you can be sure this recipe comes to you after years of very meticulous and scientific kitc...
Breadcrumbs usually lie like a lazy blanket on top of pasta or casseroles. For this quick dish, we toasted them up in flavored olive oil, tossed them with roasted cauliflower, and let them shine as a ...
We can't believe that winter is almost over and we haven't posted a single recipe for lasagna! This timeless casserole dish is one of our staple comfort foods in any season, honestly, but it feels esp...
This time of winter we are looking for easy, delicious, yet not-too-heavy comfort food. Comfort food is often rich and heavy, but we think that these silky braised leeks are comforting yet light. ...
This rich, creamy pasta sauce was the result of an experiment. We wanted to make a creamy, mushroom-y pasta topping with no cream. We're trying to watch our diet a little better, and while we were e...
Zipping through the neighborhood with minutes to spare before friends arrived for an impromptu dinner Friday night, I had only a loose inspiration for a pasta with Cacio e Pepe (cheese and pepper), an...
You've been asking for our sauce recipe using fresh tomatoes. We've been refining our recipe, double-checking our measurements, and now we're ready to share. Let us know how this compares to your to...
All this talk of farro has inspired me to cook some. I love its toothsome texture and its flavor pairs well with fall ingredients. This salad has nutty, fruity flavors and contrasting textures. Ser...
I need you to play along with me, in accepting what follows as a legitimate recipe. It is so basic - nothing new, nothing spectacular, nothing the first tomato farmer couldn't have come up with. Can i...
Good sauce is essential to great pizza, and homemade pizza sauce is almost as easy as opening a jar. Here are recipes for both red and white sauce, since some toppings do better on a mild, creamy base...
A Sicilian friend who once visited us for the weekend and offered to make lunch, taught me a great substitute for Parmesan. We'd run out, and his pasta dish commanded a topping. So he fried up some ...
Here's a recipe from a reader, SarahW, for a simple pasta dish using Swiss Chard (it's been a hot topic of discussion on the Open Threads for a while) and Feta cheese. With greens such as spinach abo...
Luigi's Grandmother's Blood Orange Salad Serves 4 6oz. jar Italian tuna in olive oil, drained 4 blood oranges peeled, membranes removed 1/4 cup chopped oil-cured black olives 1 tsp. balsamic vinegar ...
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