recipe

Roast Chicken Salad with Haricots Verts and Mustard Vinaigrette

B is headed to Las Vegas this week to keep […]

Minestrone

I adore minestrone. Minestrone is a soup that embodies the best of “seasonal cooking”. Its content depends on what’s good at the market, and almost always contains a bounty of […]

American cuisine

Weekend Rituals

B and I have been together since May 2013. If you count since we’ve been living together, it’s been 3 1/2 years. I prefer to start the clock from the […]

autumn

Fresh Cavatelli with Cauliflower, Almonds and Breadcrumbs

I lived in New York City from 1988 till about […]

food

Spaghetti with Scallops, Parsley and Hot Pepper

A friend of mine once described her favorite childhood meal […]

cooking

When someone asks me “What do you like to cook?”, I almost invariably answer “Italian”. If pressed for detail, I sometimes answer “Mediterranean-style vegetable-focused cooking, with a strong preference towards […]

cooking

Polpettine all’Umbra

To most Americans, meatballs are made to be paired with spaghetti or some other type of pasta, typically served in a concoction known as “Sunday gravy“. In the annals of […]

cooking

Mejadra, with Yogurt and Cucumber

Rice and beans (or peas, or lentils) is a tradition in just about every region I can think of, from the American South (red beans and rice), to India (chana […]

cooking

Chicken with Mustard

A few months ago, I bought “My Paris Kitchen“. It was roughly around this time that I decided to change my habit of rarely cooking directly from cookbooks to more […]

food

Basmati and Wild Rice with Chickpeas, Cranberries and Herbs

I hardly ever cook directly from cookbooks, but lately that […]

cooking

Chermoula

If there’s an herb in my pantry that would qualify as an MVP, it would probably be flat-leaf parsley. I go through at least 1-2 bunches a week. I use […]

American cuisine

Ramp Pesto

I have a confession to make. I am one of those people who adores ramps. I go crazy over them when they appear. Their presence at the market says that […]

cooking

Spicy Spanish Mussels, with Almonds and Parsley

It used to be that you could get marrow bones, […]

Alice Waters

Heirloom Bean Soup with Mussels and Winter Vegetables, and Watercress Pesto

(excerpted from the video above) Q: “We have schools across […]

food

Garlic Soup

Have you ever come home from work late at night, looked in your refrigerator, and seen that you don’t have much to work with? If you’re like me, that produces […]

food

Winter Vegetable Jardinière, with Black Truffles

Truffles are little morsels of pure, unadulterated love. Their flavors […]

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Roast Chicken Salad with Haricots Verts and Mustard Vinaigrette

Minestrone

Weekend Rituals

Fresh Cavatelli with Cauliflower, Almonds and Breadcrumbs

Spaghetti with Scallops, Parsley and Hot Pepper

Zucchine Alla Parmigiana

Polpettine all’Umbra

Mejadra, with Yogurt and Cucumber

Chicken with Mustard

Basmati and Wild Rice with Chickpeas, Cranberries and Herbs

Chermoula

Ramp Pesto

Spicy Spanish Mussels, with Almonds and Parsley

Heirloom Bean Soup with Mussels and Winter Vegetables, and Watercress Pesto

Garlic Soup

Winter Vegetable Jardinière, with Black Truffles