Recipes

Shaved Fennel Salad With Sweet Peas and Avocado Chef's Notes: While you can’t let salad greens sit out for long, a fresh chilled fennel bulb retains its crunch over time, perfect ...

White Clam Pizzas With Scallions and Bacon Chef's Notes: Served in small shapes or slices and with light, bright ...

Seared Italian Sausages With Roasted Cherry Tomatoes and Shallots Chef's Notes: I have this memory of my grandma making ...

This piece begins with some humbling self-reflection, some acknowledgment that there may be some merit to the old ...

The ancient Greeks viewed cooking as a sacred practice and a form of therapy. They approached it with ...

A visit to Valencia, a port city on the eastern coast of Spain, would not be complete without ...

Chicken Tagine With Fennel, Chickpeas, and Apricots Why this recipe works: While traditional spice blends for Moroccan tagines ...

Pink Peppercorn-Pomegranate Panna Cotta Why this recipe works: We use pink peppercorns in a number of savory applications, ...

Spice-Crusted Rib-Eye Steaks Why this recipe works: What’s better than a perfectly seared rib-eye? One where a generously ...

My husband, George, and I live in the idyllic town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Yep, that’s the actual name. ...

Shaved Cabbage Salad With Chili Oil, Cilantro, and Charred Melon I tend toward cantaloupe for this dish. Charring ...

Cucumber With Cumin Yogurt and Parsley I tend to use Greek yogurt for this because I like the ...

Poached Radishes With White Wine, Chicken Stock, and Butter This dish is a nod to one of my ...

How early in the year do you kick off grilling season? Right now, I’m waiting to see when ...

People have been fermenting food since at least 6,000 B.C., and most cultures have some sort of fermented ...

When I was a kid, my parents took me to a small Sichuan restaurant in the neighborhood with ...

An iconic regional American cuisine gets its due in “Tex-Mex: Traditions, Innovations, and Comfort Foods From Both Sides ...

Chicken Al Carbón A beautiful and delicious dish, chicken al carbón is a whole chicken roasted over the ...

Enchiladas Suizas On just about every Tex-Mex menu, chicken enchiladas with verde sauce is an option. The tangy ...

Queso Fundido Con Chorizo Queso fundido means “molten cheese,” and you’ll sometimes find this dish listed on menus ...

A quick peek inside my pantry will reveal one major insight into my cooking style: I am not ...

Here’s my dirty secret: I’m writing a cake book, and my husband is the one family member who ...

Little Treasures Cake Have you noticed how obsessed little kids are with teeny, tiny things? I’m sure I ...

Bribery Cake A not-too-sweet chocolate cake, topped with silky Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream, sprinkled with a little sea ...

When my husband Gary and I were first dating, he told me he really liked asparagus, but hadn’t ...

Pan di ramerino belongs to the Tuscan tradition of sweet bread, enriched with spices, olive oil, raisins, walnuts, ...

If you’ve ever looked into your refrigerator and thought, “There is absolutely nothing to eat in here,” allow ...