All these holiday food posts are just now trickling in as I sort through photos and return to normal life. Here are two breakfasts I wish I ...

A few weeks ago I made quesadillas filled with some odds and ends we needed to use up -- cilantro, arugula, roasted pork, monterey jack chee...

I made a fruitcake for Christmas this year. And I spent a lot of time trying to convince Lawson that it wasn't going to be gross. He wa...

I mean that it's made with real plums, not dried fruit and suet. This may be Swedish in origin, or my grandmother may have found the rec...

It's easy to be daunted by a recipe that begins: "Disjoint a 12-pound turkey and brown the pieces in lard." All you need to di...

I've used this filling for the last two years for holiday tamales. It's an amalgamation of various tomatillo salsa recipes and some ...

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 ...

Now I’m into the good part of Christmas: making food for gifts. Had I been a Wise Man, I would have brought the Christ Child lemon curd or ...

This reprint of an older Slate article is right in one way: because there's no single Christmas meal tradition in this country, one nev...

Eva, here are a couple of vegetable recipes that can be served at room temperature. I would be ecstatic to find dishes like these at a pot l...

Recently we had grilled hot dogs on whole wheat buns, salad, and champagne. I was testing holiday punch recipes for the Free Times , looking...

I started out with the intention of making ratatouille tonight, because of having eggplant and other ingredients on hand, but after cookbook...

I find I'm using this blog to record old family favorites more during the winter and holiday season. This soup is the first and best thi...

Here's another light meal for this season when I seem to spend a lot of time recovering from eating or drinking too much. - Beets, roast...

I haven't formed a complete opinion about pork tenderloin. I like the lean, boneless idea of it, and whenever I find some on sale that i...