Messy adventures in the modern kitchen
This summer I checked one off the bucket list: Taking a cooking class in Rome, Italy! Making (and eating) this pasta puttanesca was definitely one of the highlights of my trip, and while I wish all of you could be transported to the land of wine and olives to take […]
Which came first, the potato or the chip? A little confusion is understandable. At first this crispy Salt & Vinegar Potato side dish might seem like a fun riff on commercial salt and vinegar chips (or “crisps”), but really, it’s the other way around. Bagged salt and vinegar chips date […]
Crushed gingersnap cookies and homemade vanilla whipped cream, layered with fresh raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and cherries … this is a dessert to rival fireworks.
Sometimes it just works. A pretty good recipe gradually transforms into a great one, and after a few hit potlucks, it has a regular seat at every holiday meal and sports event — an unspoken hope that just maybe the Knicks will win this year. This kale salad is one […]
Plantains, or cooking bananas, have been delighting palates since the days of Cleopatra. To eat a banana raw, in fact, is a particularly modern phenomenon. And as much as we love a mildly sweet, mutated modern banana, there is something earthy and magical about this ancient bitter fruit that transforms […]
Whether you call them Bomb pops, Rocket pops or Firecrackers, these patriotic popsicles make for some very sweet summertime memories: the faint chime of the ice cream truck, lips stained a happy raspberry blue for hours. The original red, white and blue rocket-shaped “Bomb pop” first hit supermarket shelves nearly […]
Fruit leather makes for happy, sticky memories: The day you had fruit leather in your lunchbox was a day to celebrate indeed! Giggling over boys and fart jokes on the schoolyard was just so much sweeter with a fruit roll up “thumbsicle” to gnaw on. This simple recipe for homemade […]
Guacamole is a dish that lends itself to experimentation. Creamy, mild avocados are a perfect blank canvas for flavor, and our obsession with them just keeps growing. (Last year alone, the average American consumed about 7 pounds of avocados!) I have fond memories of living in Mexico, eating plain sliced […]
Some people have a soft spot for sweets; others lean on liquor. In my grandma’s kitchen, you didn’t have to choose. The recipe for Grandma Sarah’s “Butter Pecan Whiskey Cookies” is a bite of bittersweet family history. I found it by accident, scribbled on the back of an old, voided […]
We don’t always agree on what to eat for dinner around here. When one kid suggests sausages, the other cries for quesadillas, and the grown-ups just crave something —anything—that doesn’t pair well with a free plastic toy. On nights like this, we must embrace the one food people of all […]
Flour tortillas don’t typically make the cut when we talk about “authentic” south-of-the-border cuisine, but despite what you may think, corn hasn’t completely cornered the tortilla market in Mexico. For the people of Sonora, a region in northern Mexico, wheat has been a staple crop for hundreds of years. Head […]
The banana sandwich is to Americans what Marmite is to the Brits: either you love it, or it the very idea makes you want to hide. If you happen to live North of the Mason-Dixon line it’s very possible that you’ve never even heard of it. But even if the […]