Vegetarian

Creamy stovetop macaroni and cheese

6 April 2012 Food
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It’s not hard to make a cheesy macaroni and cheese, but making a creamy one is trickier. Cooks Illustrated ended my disappointing series of dry baked macaroni efforts when it published years ago a blessedly simple recipe for super-creamy macaroni and cheese made in minutes on the stovetop. Boxed macaroni and cheese is convenient, but [...]

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Kale salad with cranberries and toasted walnuts

6 March 2012 Food
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The best way for me to keep up my vegetable intake is to make a big batch that lasts for several meals. In the wintertime, roasted vegetables fit the bill handily. But by March I’m ready for a fresher taste. Salad greens are sad this time of year, but kale – a dark leafy green [...]

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Risi e bisi (rice and peas)

22 February 2012 Food
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It seems like a dish for old folks and babies – a softly comforting thick soup, eaten with a spoon. But in fact risi e bisi (pronounced REE-see ay BEE-see) is a classic Venetian dish, traditionally served to the Doge during the spring festival of Venice’s patron saint, St Mark. Though in modern Italy this [...]

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Alice Waters’s carrot soup

1 February 2012 Food
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It doesn’t seem like it could possibly be interesting, or delectable, or surprising: carrot soup, made simply with onion, broth, a bit of thyme and a whole lot of carrots. No ginger, curry or any of your typical carrot soup dress-me-ups. Alice Waters is bold enough to leave humble carrots to stand on their own. [...]

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Tea eggs

7 January 2012 Asian
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I’m relieved it’s January. I love the spirit of holiday season, but I’m thrilled to leave the holiday pressures of gifts and travel behind. Though there’s a lot of winter ahead, we are inching our way into longer days. I felt wistful as December closed, but January brings fresh hope. I enjoyed Christmas cookies for [...]

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Creamier scones

22 December 2011 Breakfast
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It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but after making 400 scones for teachers and neighbors in the last two days, I’ve realized something important: more cream is better. Turns out it’s much safer to start with a moister dough and add flour as needed than risk a dry scone. The magic of these cream scones [...]

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Chinese green beans

19 November 2011 Asian
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Chinese green beans may not seem like the most obviously perfect dish for Thanksgiving, but these really are. At a table laden with buttery bread stuffing, creamy mashed potatoes and candied sweet potatoes, lightly seasoned crisp-tender string beans make so much more sense than a heavy green bean casserole. My mom is famous for these [...]

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Easy cranberry sauce

15 November 2011 Food
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I’ve decided the way to tackle Thanksgiving this year is one manageable step at a time. Thanksgiving dinner isn’t hard, it’s just the number of dishes that can be daunting. This year I’m all about easy. We all choose our cheats for Thanksgiving. My mom always used dried stuffing mix, and my mother-in-law would make [...]

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Homemade ketchup

4 November 2011 Food
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Normally I don’t make my own ketchup at home – for a squirt here or there, Heinz is just fine. But when I make a ketchup-heavy recipe – like the sloppy joes recipe I’m getting ready to post – I don’t mind taking a few minutes to make my own so I don’t ingest a [...]

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Greek salad

19 August 2011 Food
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Greek salad is desert-island food for me – so essentially comforting and nourishing I would gladly eat it for the rest of my hot and solitary days. With the cool green crispness of cucumber, the warm red juiciness of tomato, the dark glossy brininess of olive, and the bright white softness of feta cheese, Greek [...]

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