Vegetables 10-Minute Meal: Greens + Tuna + Shallot Vinaigrette Remember back in 2007 when The Times’ ran Mark Bittman’s Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less? That was such a fun... Continue Reading 10-Minute Meal: Greens + Tuna + Shallot Vinaigrette»
Bread Recipes New Toast Bookplates + Toaster Notecards Last month, we celebrated the mothers in our lives with flowerpot loaves and toast bookplates. I loved hearing from you and reading your inscriptions,... Continue Reading New Toast Bookplates + Toaster Notecards»
Vegetables Skillet-Seared Skirt Steak Niçoise If you’ve read any article about how to cook a good steak, chances are you know the importance of letting meat rest once it... Continue Reading Skillet-Seared Skirt Steak Niçoise»
Bread Recipes Weeknight Skirt Steak Sandwiches with Herbed Mayonnaise and Arugula “The main requirement for searing is a blazing-hot cooking surface,” Samin Nosrat writes in Salt Fat Acid Heat. In an effort to get a... Continue Reading Weeknight Skirt Steak Sandwiches with Herbed Mayonnaise and Arugula»
Weeknight Dinners Sweet Potato and Mushroom Veggie Burger Loaded with quinoa, these sweet potato and mushroom veggie burgers are so good 🍠🍄🍔🎉 The quinoa gives them such a nice texture, and parsley... Continue Reading Sweet Potato and Mushroom Veggie Burger»
Salads Broccoli & Cabbage Slaw with Miso-Carrot Dressing Earlier this year I read about a cabbage-salting technique in The Slanted Door cookbook. It’s a simple process: Place cabbage in a large bowl,... Continue Reading Broccoli & Cabbage Slaw with Miso-Carrot Dressing»
Vegetables Almond-Sesame Soba Noodles with Quick-Pickled Vegetables As noted in the previous post, my friend Phoebe’s book, The Wellness Project, is not a cookbook. I am loving the two recipes I’ve made thus... Continue Reading Almond-Sesame Soba Noodles with Quick-Pickled Vegetables»
Drinks Healthy Blueberry-Almond Smoothie Before making this blueberry-almond smoothie a little over a week ago, I hadn’t made a smoothie in over a decade, and I’m not sure why.... Continue Reading Healthy Blueberry-Almond Smoothie»
Breakfast Jean Adamson’s Quinoa-and-Oat Porridge Last fall, I met a friend in Hudson for brunch at Rivertown Lodge, where I ordered their quinoa and oat porridge, devoured it in... Continue Reading Jean Adamson’s Quinoa-and-Oat Porridge»
Fall How to Make Excellent Skillet Pizza Many of you know I am a huge fan of the Baking Steel, a 1/4-inch thick slab of steel that creates crisp bottom crusts... Continue Reading How to Make Excellent Skillet Pizza»
Bread Recipes Bread Baking 101 Do you fear yeast? Do you dread kneading? Fear no more. Dread no more. If you can whisk and stir, you can bake bread.... Continue Reading Bread Baking 101»
Bread Recipes Flowerpot Bread About a month ago, a friend texted me a photo of an adorable loaf of bread baked in a flowerpot. She was at Terrain’s... Continue Reading Flowerpot Bread»