L. has been on my case again about the fact that I tend not to cook dishes a second time. As a fellow foodie, I thought that he...

These were a delicious addition to a truly successful pasta dish of rigati, Chorizo and wilted greens. They were also very pretty coming...

This Spanish mackerel was, if I say so myself, perfectly cooked - crispy skin, moist, firm flesh, all enhanced by the exceedingly simple...

I am pretty sure that we have all eaten Pasta Primavera, usually badly made, at some point or the other. Rather than the usual bad...

This dish is the love child of my craving greens and wanting to clean out the fridge before going away for the weekend. I did not expect...

I had read about Southern tomato pie in books and always thought that it sounded delicious. Unfortunately, none of the recipes that I...

I have to admit that, with the temperature in the 80s and the humidity at 75%, I was loathe to turn on the oven this evening. Instead, I...

This is a lovely way of using up all the odds and ends of vegetables and herbs that you have left in your hydrator at the end of the week...

My aunt recently sent me a recipe for a carrot pizza (original recipe and her notes attached below) and, while I was intrigued by the...

The recipe for these actually made my mouth water and I immediately got the ingredients so that I could make them at once. My first batch...

To those of you who have never made a soufflé before: forget everything you have ever heard - they are really not that hard to make. I...

I make artichokes for L. from time to time, usually just steamed with some drawn lemon butter on the side. Since the higher up he gets in...

This is what you make when your child is hungry on a Saturday afternoon and both of you are too lazy to go out in the sphincter puckering...

I have been tossing this idea around in my head for a while because I still had some summer corn in my freezer and felt it was time to...

The "osso bucco" title is obviously a bit of branding to make this dish more palatable to the non-vegetarians who were going to eat it. I...

It is stupid of me to call these fajitas since the term fajita refers to grilled beef, but this dish, even in its vegetarian incarnation,...

Cooking time aside, this was a "5 minutes of effort dish", which I always like. I paired it with homemade merguez patties but you could...

As you may have noticed from reading this blog, I cannot help myself when it comes to recipes: I have to put in my 10 cents worth and...

I have been wanting to make a vegetarian "meatball" recently because I thought it would be a painless way to add more pulses to L.'s...

When I worked at Daniel in New York, I always knew that it was Spring because pea soup appeared on on the menu. It came in the form of a...

It's been a long time since I have given you a recipe with no photo, even a crappy one. My only excuse is that, though delicious, my...

Quiche is usually made with pie crust and you can certainly make this recipe that way. I wanted to overstuff the quiche and make it a...

I mostly prefer my soups chunky because I feel that the texture is condusive to them being filling and therefore useful as stand alone...

I am embarrassed to say that, though I really love traditional and proper Chinese food, I also have a soft spot for certain...