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Recipe: Honey Lavender Panna Cotta

OK, this makes three - three! - dessert recipes with lavender that we've posted in the last month or two. Lavender is just such a wonderful ingredient for spring and summer desserts; used with a light...

Simple Pleasures: Pimento Cheese Recipe

There aren't many foods that you'll see in the lunchbox of a kindergartner and on the fanciest hors d'oeuvre platter. But the simple pleasure of pimento cheese is a way of life for many southerners, a...

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: Lemon Verbena Simple Syrup

Lemon verbena is one of our favorite herbs. It's a tall, spare, long-leafed plant with slender leaves and a fragrance to die for. It's not hard to capture that fragrance in a simple syrup. ...

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: 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: Mango Ginger Frozen Yogurt

We've had bad luck with frozen yogurt in the past. With the exception of this Honeyed Blueberry Frozen Yogurt, which includes a cup of cream to smooth things out, we find that frozen yogurt just doesn...

Recipe: Spring Greens Pesto

This post was originally sent to our email subscribers on April 11th. To sign up for our weekly email (not daily as the box indicates) sign up in the column to the left or click here. Faith's post a...

Recipe: Blueberry Lavender Cream Pie

From our pie tip earlier and the photo of all those wild blueberries on Friday you might surmise that we dipped into pie-making again. And you would be correct - we made a pie, a very pretty violet pi...

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: 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: Cheddar Olives

When planning a cocktail party, we always make sure to have one "straight-from-freezer-to-oven" recipe, and we make extra. You can keep refilling the tray as long as you need to, and any leftovers st...

Recipe: Homemade Calzones

Recipe for homemade calzones, to eat now or freeze for later.... ...

Weeknight Meal Tip: Frozen Homemade Stock Portions

One thing that helps us make delicious, healthy meals on the fly is a freezer full of portioned homemade stock of all kinds - vegetable, crab, chicken, beef, etc....

Recipe: Friday Night Slow-Cooked Brisket and Onions

Here's our meal tonight - slow-cooked brisket with caramelized onions and a splash of Worcestershire and soy sauce. It's so easy and delicious that we wanted to share the recipe. Ours is still in prog...

Recipe: Clean-Out-the-Pantry Pumpkin, Peanut, & Ginger Soup

We're getting a head start on the spring Kitchn Cure, looking at our pantry and freezer with a skeptical eye. What are the foods that we won't want to eat in a month's time, when the greenmarkets are ...

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... ...

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 ...

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...

Recipe: New England Fish Chowder

It's no secret that New Englanders have a particular reverence for chowders of all kinds, and on dreary winter days like those we've been getting, there's nothing we crave more. And with good reason...

Recipe: DIY Croutons

We have been madly craving winter salads - our current favorite is a complex blend of fennel, cabbage, chickpeas, chicken, roasted almonds and dates. Dark winter greens, crunchy root vegetables, and...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Honey Roasted Peanuts

We weren't going to let one failed attempt get us down - we still think that homemade honey roasted peanuts would make a terrific homemade holiday gift. Here's the recipe we wound up with, and it's ...

Recipe: Meyer Lemon and Walnut Cake with Honey Syrup

Fruitcake haters may be converted by this cake, and those of us who like well-made bricks of the holiday treat will love this. It has that same density of flavor, packed into tiny bites full of lemo...