I got fired up today and made granola, blueberry jam, and an Italian supper of salmon, fettucine with peas and saffron, and yellow peppers ...

I had a couple of episodes of stomach pain in the last week, which prompted me to look up my symptoms on the internet. All articles advised ...

This whole January 1st meal was a New Year's resolution: pasta e fagioli (I used black-eyed peas for good luck); low-gluten bread; and a...

It's mid-December, so all our garden herbs are dead except mint and parsley...so I made pasta with mint and parsley. I do what I can to ...

Speaking of anchovies, as you were a couple of posts ago, I made an anchovy pasta from Kathleen Sloan's Rustic Italian Cooking yesterday...

I got a pretty kitchen scale for my birthday. I have of course read a lot about spaghetti alla carbonara, but I'd never tried it. Never ...

The pesto Lawson made over the weekend was so fresh and good and perfumey that I decided it deserved some homemade pasta. The combination of...

Here is our campsite at Edisto Island, South Carolina, where Lawson grilled local shrimp and we walked on lovely trails. The first night we ...

From the department of Really Easy Late Night Dinners, here's some tuna-caper pasta sauce I made yesterday. Lawson has a long tradition ...

Here's an easy way to fix scallops, especially little Bay scallops. Toast some pine nuts , chop 1/4 cup fresh basil , and set those asid...

Unlike the last time we went to the mountains , we brought food this weekend and cooked it. It was a fairly eventful trip: our friends Ken a...

We just returned from driving to Alaska and back--10,000 miles and a morally reprehensible amount of gas--but we get good mileage in more wa...

Clams are so fun to cook with. This wasn't the most successful dish I've ever invented, but I love the magic of clams: you add to yo...

I've made this salad dressing a few times--it makes me laugh. I've had raspberry vinaigrette in restaurants, and I've bought pr...

Just yesterday we found fresh clams from the South Carolina coast; the guy who sells local shrimp at the all-local farmers’ market had broug...

Mmmm: manicotti and slightly overdone broccoli. Lately I've had a compulsion to recreate classic cafeteria foods. I made spaghetti and m...

Not pasta salad -- salad pasta. Pasta with salad in it. I like noodles a lot, but I like them better cut with greenery and fiber. I love Tha...

Your roasted pasta post, along with the lovely radicchio I bought the other day, inspired me to make this pasta last night. I love broiled o...

Susan told me how to make this when we were visiting them in Texas last week. She just gave me the general idea, so I hope this is what she ...

No, we didn't eat the dog. We adopted her, and that's why I haven't posted much this week. I've been exhausted and, I'm ...