When I unpacked my CSA box on Saturday, I immediately thought of Ash Reshteh, a Persian soup of greens, herbs, pulses and thick noodles,...

I was not expecting to like this as much as I did. It is a fantastic dish, full of flavor. The different varieties of mushroom made the...

I came across this recipe on a sheet of paper tucked into an old book of mine. I don't remember who gave it to me and don't recognize the...

Despite its murky look -- lentils and pumpkin do not really combine well visually -- this was a yummy, healthy, and surprisingly filling...

I had various bags with a cup here and a 1/2 cup there of pulses left in them, and this seemed like a good idea as a means to do a pantry...

I made this for dinner for my mother and it was a thousand times more delicious than it looks in the picture. This is a really easy...

Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I really do not like celery and that I recently found myself with quite a backlog...

L. has not been a huge fan of lamb since the mutton lunches of his French Lycée days but he quite enjoyed this as well which I think...

Obviously this is not a traditional dish since pork would probably not be used as the protein of choice in any self-respecting tagine...

Illegitimacy is definitely an outdated construct, useful only in older novels and movies to create context for experiences in the...

I had a lot of tomatoes and a fair amount of carrots that I wanted to use up, and I planned on adding a bunch of kale to the mix as well,...

I can take no credit for this recipe. I got it from my mother, who got it by bribing her favorite waiter from the Chef at the Foreign...

I have been on a chilled soup for lunch kick recently. They are easy to make, are healthy for the most part, and I happen to quite like...

I made this on the spur of the moment because I happened to have leftover Beet-Orange Purée with Brown Butter in the fridge and, on a day...

I am not joking, this soup took 10 minutes from start to finish and was incredibly delicious. It was also the perfect lockdown lunch: it...

Japanese curry, while very different than the Indian version, is really delicious. It is spicy and creamy and much thicker than the...

This is comfort food for a chilly evening. It was not a loud and ballsy stew full of vim and vigor and spice, but rather a brothy, calm...

Even as a child I was an anglophile and enjoyed the kind of fiction where children who were ill were sent to bed with barley water or...

There are always a few recipes over the course of the week which - sad though it may be - I use as a means of editing the hydrator. This...

When I lived in France I would often get oxtail at the local butcher's because it was cheap and easy to cook. With very little hands on...

This dish is an excellent gateway meal to soup and stew season and I got lucky - it is unseasonably chilly tonight and this hearty stew...

I had to reschedule lunch with my friend for whom I planned to make this soup and -boy! - did she get lucky. It is delicious made with...

This is delicious; the perfect recipe and dinner for an autumn or winter weekend day when you feel like cooking a lot. I stopped short of...

What I lost in orange color by adding leeks and bacon to this soup base, I more than made up for in depth of flavor. You could make this...