Add These Three Worldly Relishes to Your Thanksgiving Dinner Table
Acid. It’s what Thanksgiving is missing, and what it needs—just think of all the people who come to your dinner table with a wider palate than what turkey and potatoes…
Why Twice-Baked Potatoes Are Better Than Mashed
Photo: Amanda Blum Mashed potatoes are literal clouds of happiness. The potato, the butter, the cream, the salt. It’s like everything perfect in this world, in one fluffy form. A…
Thanksgiving Turkey Porchetta Is Worth It in the End
Porchetta is perfect. Crackling crisp skin, self-basting pork roast and a magical mélange of fennel, pepper and lemon. It’s no surprise that at some point, someone thought to try and…
Make ‘Fake Risotto’ With Leftover Rice
Last night, when I opened my fridge to make dinner, I was confronted with two truths: My leftover rice was getting a little too dry, and my mushrooms had maybe…
Turn an Overflowing Garden Into a Batch of Dumplings
It’s flying fast, now, the garden; each day I collect a mélange of vegetables or berries. From day to day, there’s rarely enough of any one crop to make a…
Dress Your Pasta Salad With a Tub of Dip
Just like any other salad, making a good pasta salad is all about creating a balance of flavors and textures. The textures, in this case, are tender noodles, paired with…
Get to Know Kohlrabi With Three Easy Recipes
There is a section of the produce department where curious produce lives, full of gnarly root vegetables and endless greens. I am on a mission to try them all, find…
These Chilled Pea Soups Are the Perfect Easy Summer Lunch
If all you’ve ever known of peas is mushy peas or canned peas, you’ve never really tasted peas. The cool, crisp orbs you pop out of pods fresh off the…
Orzo Is the Pasta of the Summer
We don’t celebrate orzo enough, but its adorable, small size and shape makes it hardly feel like pasta. It can trick you into believing it’s a grain, or chewy kind…
Use Vinegar and Lemon Juice for a Better Vinaigrette
Photo: Claire Lower With the exception of three people, the only things I miss about living in Florida are foods and beverages. I long for the wine cellar (and dessert…