I made a sort of minestrone last night with red and orange peppers, garlic, carrots, fennel, arugula, and tomatoes with fresh oregano, ros...

How long can the cupcake remain wildly fashionable? When I decided to make cupcakes rather than cake for my recital refreshments this weeken...

That's a really pretentious name for our very best favorite pizza. I think I started making this when you were in high school. For this ...

And some of the best barbecue joints serve canned sweet potatoes and flavorless storebought dinner rolls. Just because these foods have auth...

Hey, Mom, I finally re-created the sausage you and Dad and I had at that Guatemalan restaurant (aptly named "Guatemalan Restaurant...

Tonight I made a pretty good stir fry with shrimp, snow peas, spinach, and rice noodles (and of course garlic and jalapenos). I served it...

Cooks improvise and substitute constantly in their cooking--the alternative is slavishly following written recipes and running to the store ...

I'm glad you got out of town for a few days, Mom. I invented a salad. I guess this means my cooking slump is over. I don't know if L...

We escaped to the desert last week--Organ Pipe, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, and Mojave National Preserve--all National Park Service areas. Lo...

My friend Dave gave us some venison that his cousin shot and took to a processor. Item #1 was this entertainingly packaged sausage. It looks...

The strange cooking slump continues. This has never happened to me before for more than a few days: it's like I've lost both confide...

Here's another calzone, this one much more traditional. The filling was homemade Italian sausage, sauteed onions and garlic, ricotta, mo...

"Sunday night supper" connotes comfortable food that doesn't require too much work--or possibly a lighter meal because it foll...

I bought some nice grass-fed ground lamb on sale the other day. I looked at various spiced lamb meatball recipes and Moroccan lamby stews an...

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 ...