I made a calzone using my regular pizza dough recipe . It's a fairly wet dough, which made it a little tough to work with. Lots of cornm...

Norm and Jane from Washington came for dinner and to spend the night. Norm is a vintner and brought two delicious bottles of his wine, an un...

Trying to use up food from the fridge, I made pretentious fancy nachos with: homemade corn chips bourbon-tomatillo black beans goat Brie wh...

We cooked our standard comfort food yesterday: green chile enchiladas and beans. Tonight we had pulled pork, sweet potatoes, and ratatouille...

Mom, we're geniuses. I just made that cocktail we invented in conversation last week, and it's great: a Campari and soda, but with a...

Here's another meal we made together last week: red snapper with charmoula , green beans, and gluten-free flatbread. I liked this flat...

I liked this sequence of photos from when we made dinner together earlier this week, Mom. First, roasted tomato vinaigrette . Then polenta -...

I always make soup or stew for company arriving by airplane, because terrible things can happen to the timing of dinner. If possible, I lea...

"Redux" is in honor of John Updike. I have to read something of his again. Reading the Rabbit novels twenty years ago, I thought t...

In today's Free Times I have a story on Eve Ross and Justin Shearer , who are eating for $3 a day through January and possibly through F...

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

Alaskan cod is one of the most reliably fresh and available fishes I can buy in Tucson. I often make it baked Greek-style or with capers, ...

I've been having intense cravings for breakfast burritos all week. I don't know why. On Monday they were quite strong, so I made som...

For Christmas a few years ago, Lawson gave me a grinder attachment for my KitchenAid. This year, he gave me the sausage horn attachment, a h...

Coming soon: thorough documentation of my first home sausage-making experiment. For now, though, there's just this lamb stew (two lamb s...