Oven Risotto with Sausage and Peppers
Risotto thinks it’s so superior. So delicate, so capricious, so high maintenance. A pretty girl who won’t get dirty. At least, that’s how it…
Category: Pasta & Grains
Savory Monkey Bread
Monkey bread is a celebration of life, liberty, equality, fraternity, Pilgrims, Native Americans, the pursuit of happiness, shoes with oversized buckles, burning the witch,…
Short Ribs with Tagliatelle
There’s something about taking inexpensive, tough cuts of meat, and slowly, over the course of a cool, rainy autumn Friday, turning them into tender,…
Rigatoni with Roasted Peppers and Sausage
Right now, in my kitchen, there is sauce bubbling on the stove. And it is rich and good. The cutting board is green with…
Turkey Chili with Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread
It’s rainy and chilly already here in Maine. September is in the air, with all that that entails. The tips and tops of trees…
Farmstand Tomato Bruschetta w/ No-Knead Bread
What follows is a bit of a foodie cliche, including invoking that insufferable f-word. Every time I turn around this month Mark Bittman, whom…
Sun-Cooked Heirloom Tomato Pasta Sauce
It is high summer in Maine. Though the nights are cooling, our days are glorious, green and breezy. Fields and farm stands are bursting…
Linguine Carbonara with Mushrooms & Red Pepper
On the Gulf coast of Mexico, outside of Progreso, a small, somewhat rough-and-tumble Mexican port town famous for its 4 1/2 mile pier, there…
Light Rye Hamburger Buns
Hamburger buns are important to me. Most supermarket hamburger buns are pretty boring, and are kind of like a really thick, cottony Wonder Bread,…
BLT Pasta
You must make this. I made it up myself and it is awesome. Like most everything I cook, it’s super simple. There are components,…
Skillet Cornbread
When we lived in Mexico, cornbread was one of the things we missed from our lives back home. We had never given cornbread much…
American Chop Suey Recipe
Everyone who lives west of Massachusetts thinks they know what this dish is, when I try to describe it. “Oh,” someone from Florida will…
How to Make Corn Tortillas
If you’ve never made your own tortillas, you won’t believe how out of wack the effort-to-payoff ratio is. They are dead simple to make,…
Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
Simple baking is terrifically satisfying. Two wooden bowls, metal measuring cups and spoons, cracking brown eggs, butter, sugar, flour, bare feet, batter beaters. It…
Brie and Chive Buttermilk Biscuits
These biscuits are phenomenal, and the finished product doesn’t at all overwhelm you with the strong taste of cheese. After baking, the chunks of…
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…
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,…
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…
Best Macaroni And Cheese Ever
What makes this macaroni and cheese so special? Four things… First, it has a healthy amount of gruyere, which makes it smell slightly funky,…