The oven is still broken. So I made a frittata out of a potato, an onion, rosemary, parsley, oregano, and four eggs. And lots of pepper. I c...

When I first started making meals forty years ago, "salad" was something with lettuce, or possibly cabbage. And definitely dress...

I'm sorry to report that I made a bland and uninspired company lunch today. We had: Chardonnay Chicken Tettrazini Carrot/Raisin/Pineappl...

Ezra Klein, whom I adore for other reasons*, occasionally posts about cooking and food policy. And today he managed to get at something that...

Especially with the oven broken, this October is definitely soup season. I made sweet potato-peanut stew over couscous earlier in the week....

Attention: The best salad dressing is a sunny side up egg, sprinkled with white wine vinegar and salt and pepper, draped over a salad and th...

Before we get to my shopping list, I have to do the 12-step thing and declare my addiction: I am now a political internet Junkie with a 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...

I heard Michael Pollan on NPR today talking about his open letter to the next president. He eloquently summarized his ideas, notably tha...

There's a hole in my pizza because it has a spelt crust, and when I jerked it off the pan onto the pizza stone, it didn't hang toget...

This was a serendipitous cooking goof: I microwaved some leftover collard greens because I wanted them to get a little more tender. I am h...

I made a few pizzas the other night. Same crust recipe as I've been using for the last two years, though I got away from it for a while...

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...

For the last few years I've been using Julia Child's technique for French omelets, but only a few weeks ago did I discover that some...

As the stock market melted down further today, Grandma and I did our usual weekly shopping--same time, same day of the week--and the stores ...