Green Beans with Warm Bacon Fat Vinaigrette
Once the turkey is tented, the cranberries have burst, the potatoes have been mashed, the rugs have been shampooed, the placecards have been set,…
Category: Recipes
Ancho Chili Pumpkin Pie
My sister, a transplant to New Mexico and master pie baker, uses ancho chili by the handful. We, having transplanted from New England to…
Sage and Sausage Stuffing
First, let me say, that stuffing is one of the greatest gifts that gods have given men. If Prometheus was punished swiftly and meanly…
Bourbon Cranberry Compote
Cranberry sauce is one of those great “make-ahead” Thanksgiving or Christmas dishes, and now that we see how easy it is to make at…
Steamed Mussels With White Wine And Garlic
One of the great things about living in Maine, is that an “economical” dinner can often include steamed lobster, clams, or in this case,…
Basque Lamb Soup
Whether it’s spring, summer, fall or winter this Basque lamb stew recipe just works! In fact, I was so hungry I only had time…
White Bean And Red Pepper Spread
One fine fall day in 1983, my best friend KG had a scathingly brilliant idea. We would, in the tradition of children from time…
Creamed Spinach Recipe
A big part of going out to a steakhouse is, for me, the array of side dishes that accompany your weeping slab of meat.…
Haddock Chowder Recipe
The first time I had haddock chowder was on a Christmas trip home to New England whilst we were living in Mexico. Malcolm and…
Homemade Hand-Rolled Water Bagels
Bagels are a lot like pizza, in the way people get fussy about them; why, some bagel places will refuse to even toast your…
White Bean Chicken Chili
A close friend, after eating a bowl of this chili, once remarked that it was not just an interesting twist on a traditional chili…
Rigatoni with Roasted Sausage and Broccoli
I was cool for about seven minutes in 2004. Maybe not even that long. Because I am resigned to being old and uncool, conventional,…
Simple Beef Stew Recipe
As the nights get chillier, our minds turn to thoughts of beef stew. Our favorite recipes all instruct you to dredge your beef chunks…
How to Make Refried Beans
We’re not sure where the term refritos (or “Refried Beans,” for you white people) came from, since these beans aren’t really RE-fried…they’re just, well,…
Green Goddess Quinoa Recipe
My husband will not tolerate quinoa. The very utterance of its name sends him running from the room. I, being very delicate and dedicated…
Homemade Fried Mozzarella Sticks
Ah, fried mozzarella sticks. The toddler silencer. The fairgoers’ midway snack. The fuel of the currently drunk, or the consolation prize for the recently…
Muhammara: Syrian Red Pepper Spread
My mom kept, in a cupboard, the CT Junior Women’s Club plastic ring-bound book of recipes overstuffed with clippings, note cards, and labels, which…
Caribbean Habanero Hot Sauce
We believe that there is a hot sauce for everything: Cholula gets drizzled over hummus, El Yucateco “Green Monster” gets added to Mexican and…
Cream of Mushroom Soup
Cream of mushroom soup was always on the list as a quick lunch option for my dad and I when I was a kid.…
Classic Chicken Noodle Soup
Forgive me, I was away. Away from From Away, visiting my hometown, at my grandma’s house, and generally enjoying all things Josephine, mostly slathered…
Poc Chuc: Mayan-Style Marinated Pork
A bit of business to get out of the way before we begin: this is not “authentic” poc-chuc, and we’re not trying to make…
Smoky Lamb and Chorizo Chili
Since it suddenly became Fall this weekend (seriously, the temperature dropped 20 degrees and the leaves started hurling themselves off the trees, almost overnight),…