Roasted beet salad with candied pistachios
With three kids in the family, you have to put up with a certain amount of compromising on the all-important battlefield of dinnertime vegetables. Green beans (my favorite, but not in my sister’s good graces) switched off with spinach (I…
Homemade ricotta
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Eight maids-a-milking, seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying Five golden rings Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree. I spend so much…
Egg and hashbrown nests
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Six geese-a-laying Five golden rings Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree. For a pretty simple idea–bake hashbrowns and an…
Herbed Hollandaise sauce and eggs Benedict
I LOVE brunch. Both the delicious although totally absurd food (s’mores pancakes, anyone?) and the lazy weekend it represents. I used to go to brunch with friends fairly regularly, hitting a number of pretty excellent places in my brunch-restaurant-laden hipster…
Couscous Cakes
Instant dinner: why couscous cooks so fast You know my slight obsession with cake? Well, now I’m eating it for dinner. But it’s okay because it’s couscous cake–leftover couscous mixed with eggs, cheese, and spices and fried up until golden…
Mashed-potato-stuffed peppers
Beans, beans, the magical fruit We all know the song, but our dear friend Harold McGee puts it slightly more tactfully: “Several chemical constituents of beans are responsible for an uncomfortable, sometimes embarrassing consequence of eating legumes: the generation of…
Caramelized onion, cherry tomato, and Swiss cheese tart
Caramelization: making sugar even more delicious The farmers markets are full to bursting with tomatoes of all kinds, the squashy-looking heirlooms and juicy red beefsteak and tempting yellow something-or-other. But since the big guys require a cutting process that never…
