Here's a new one from the Southern food files: chicken and dumplings, aka chicken and pastry. Southern dumplings are completely differen...

I cooked last night, Manhattan in hand, and felt immeasurably better. I made a vaguely Thai stir fry of pork, tofu, onion, garlic, purple ca...

I think Lawson has made versions of this dish for you and Dad a few times. We made it a few weeks ago; now, looking back, I realize it was t...

Surprisingly, this was a last-minute collaboration on a night when I didn't think we were going to end up cooking anything. I softened c...

We have Thai basil and regular basil growing steadily now (except for the Japanese beetles chowing down on them every night), and the All-Lo...

I'm going to give up buying fresh tuna for home cooking. Even when it's gorgeous, as this slab was, it's never as fresh tasting ...

Recently I bought a big chunk of tuna and grilled it. With it we had rice noodles with a sauce from Nina Simonds' Asian Noodles book. I ...

We had some friends over Thursday for a pretty simple meal: grilled salmon, ginger-scallion noodles, and steamed sesame broccolini. And bec...

This is pretty close to Julia Child's beer and onion pot roast recipe from Volume 1 of Mastering . I browned a big piece of lean, toug...

Katherine made us a version of Caprese salad with the addition of grilled corn cut off the cob. She served it with this fabulous platter of ...

This is roasted tomato soup, another recent recipeless creation. With a sunny side up egg on top, it made for a light but complete meal. I...

Yesterday was Lawson's birthday. I knew I wanted to make him some carrot cake, because I only recently found out he is a big fan of it ...

I've been working on a term paper, so I haven't been cooking for the last five days or so (or doing much of anything besides writing...