I enjoyed your Butternut Squash Soup post. Dad is always encouraging me to make soup for dinner--an excellent idea, so why do I resist? Well...

We went to the beach with some friends this weekend, and there we improvised a meal of shrimp and grits. The meal was also supposed to conta...

Brittany asked me for some healthy baking recipes. I thought I had lost track of this one, but fortunately Mom still had her copy of Simply ...

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...

As far as I can tell, the only essential ingredient in the wonderful Mexican stew posole (also spelled pozole) is hominy. After that it vari...

Maybe I shouldn't be lifting the curtain on the glamour implied by close-up food photos against a lovely tile table, but here is a recen...

I've followed many recipes for Chicken Cacciatore in my life, and finally last night I broke out and made a version I suspect is the way...

I wish I had a picture of the counter at Chatham Fish & Lobster, with its bins of gleamingly fresh fish and shellfish--haddock, scrod, ...

The other night we made two salsas and ate them with quesadillas and salad. On days I have a big, meat-containing lunch, I often want a very...

Tomato paste: you can open those little cans, use two tablespoons, and then store them in the refrigerator or the freezer. Then two weeks la...

Last night I made this , which is easily one of the best things I've eaten this year -- much more than the sum of its parts. The lemon z...

Lawson gets really depressed by whole wheat bread. He likes the various crusty white European loaves I make, and he likes all those storebou...

A moment of silence, please, for the last garden tomatoes of the year. They were so good that we just ate them plain, with salt, accompanied...

I usually have my first piano party of the year in October before Halloween. This year we had music ranging from Haydn to Muczynski, and foo...

Our subject tonight is in the back of this picture, behind the beets and the chicken. It's hard for me to name this dish because I can...