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Posts tagged “One-dish Meal”

Make-Ahead Lunch Recipe: Big Green Salad with Shallots, Chicken, Smoked Almonds, Goat Cheese, and Dates

Last week Emma urged us to make our lunches ahead — having a big bowl of something you can easily take to work is one of the best ways to make sure you eat a homemade lunch instead of going out ...

Recipe: Fruit Dumplings (or Svestkove Knedliky in Czech)

In our family, svestkove knedliky was served as a full dinner -- even though it seems more like a breakfast, lunch or side. We'd do it with plums, peaches, apricots, or cherries, and covered in lots o...

How To Cook (and Shred) a Pork Shoulder

This may be our very favorite meal. It is incredibly hard to screw up, and yet turning a big hunk of pork shoulder into tender shreds of juicy meat still feels like a noteworthy accomplishment every t...

Recipe: Mini Rack of Lamb with Nutty Beluga Lentils and Sautéed Garlic Spinach

Yesterday we reviewed Cooking for Two, by Jessica Strand. This very pretty little book has a small, well-edited selection of meals for two. There was one recipe in particular that we really liked, esp...

30-Minute Meal Hack: Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Soup with Ginger, Soba, and Fried Pork Crumbles

We don't cook straight from scratch every night. In fact, there are many good products from the grocery store that can serve as the base for an easy, quick, and healthful meal. Take the soups at Trade...

Recipe: Evan Kleiman's Lamb Vindaloo Soup

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Recipe: Quick Lunch Pasta with Greens, Mushrooms and Meats

Last weekend it was chilly and we all needed a warm, nourishing lunch, but save for a few scraps of speck left over from Friday's dinner party and some very floppy kale, there wasn't much food to spea...

Recipe: Easy Turkey Chili with Kale

This turkey chili is one of our favorite recipes, not just because we've made it a hundred times (at least). It was one of the first things we created on our own, starting with a version we made in ou...

Recipe: Florida Butter Beans with Caramelized Onions and Bacon

We have one last recipe for you from the Rancho Gordo cookbook, Heirloom Beans (reviewed here). This one didn't have an accompanying photo in the book, and we really wanted to try it ourselves. So we ...

Recipe: Italian Marrow Beans with Tuna

We promised you three recipes from Steve Sando's great new cookbook: Heirloom Beans. We love this bright book and all the delicious and practical recipes inside. This recipe is a great example of thos...

Recipe: Cauliflower, Fennel, and White Bean Winter Salad

We first saw this winter white salad in Bon Appétit, where the description of fresh, lemony flavor with crisp winter vegetables earned it a place in our "to-try" recipe list. We made it this weekend,...

Recipe: Borlotti Beans in Tomato Sauce with Creamy Polenta

We promised you three recipes from Heirloom Beans, the new book by Rancho Gordo Steve Sando. First up is also the first recipe we bookmarked to try from this wonderful cookbook: a stew of soft, creamy...

Recipe: Hot and Sour Mushroom, Cabbage, and Rice Soup

It's soup weather. We are about to start yet another pot, but only because we just finished off this yummy soup. It came straight out of odd ingredients in the fridge and an instinctive craving for ca...

From the Email: Fridge-Clearing Lentil Soup

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on October 16. To receive Sara Kate's weekly email, sign up in the column to the left or click here. Something tasty will arrive in ...

Recipe: Cream of Celery Soup with Bacon

Celery is one of those things that can languish in the back of our fridge for a long time. It's hard to use an entire bunch. We chopped three or four stalks into our Thanksgiving stuffing, and this is...

Quiche Oignon & Cumin
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #14

Recipe: Annette's Quiche Oignon & Cumin Category: Original Weekend recipe alert! This delicious-looking quiche from Annette is a weekend meal waiting to happen. Quiche is a great quick meal, and ...

Dinner Quick: Tomato and White Bean Panade

In need of a quick savory meal to warm you up when you come in the door after a long day? This rustic stew takes advantage of a few pantry staples and will be on your table in about thirty minutes....

Confetti Quiche with Curry Crust
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #8

Recipe: Melissa's Confetti Quiche with Curry Crust Category: Original We were hoping to get a few good recipes for savory pies in this Bakeoff, and here's the first. It's an egg pie with zucchini, re...

Cooking with Leftovers: Bubble and Squeak

When I think of frugal cooking, my mind turns to the year I lived in England, where I discovered such uncomplicated yet satisfying meals as beans on toast and (vegetarian) cottage pie. Of all the trad...

Recipe: Herbed Lentils with Bacon

Lentils and bacon are made to go together, we think. Lentils have an earthy, rich taste that complements bacon perfectly. For this recipe we used a bag of mixed lentils that we bought at an Indian gro...

Dinner Quick: Arugula with Orzo and Garden Tomatoes

This quick one-dish dinner came out of our own harvest opportunity. It has market-fresh arugula, a handful of orzo for texture, and tomatoes out of our own garden! ...

Dinner Quick: Pasta with Feta, Broccoli, and Sausage

We have a little formula in our kitchen for quick dinners. (Have you figured it out yet?)...

Recipe Review: Mark Bittman's Baked Eggs with Tomato (for a Weekend Brunch Crowd)

Ever since we saw Mark Bittman's recipe for baked eggs with prosciutto and tomato, we knew we had to try it. We were also inspired by the delicious baked eggs with cream and thyme at Balthazar in New ...

Recipe: Pasta with Butternut Squash, Sage, and Pine Nuts

It's officially fall now, and it's officially harvest. We're going to be focusing on all those delicious fall fruits and vegetables this month at The Kitchn, starting with this butternut squash pasta,...

From The Email: Weeknight Fish for Two

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on June 26th. To receive Sara Kate's weekly email, sign up in the column to the left or click here. Something tasty will arrive in y...