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  • How To Cook Fingerling Potatoes

    How To Cook Fingerling Potatoes

    I get so annoyed, sometimes, watching America’s Test Kitchen. As I’ve mentioned before, my Saturday ritual is to watch all of the PBS cooking shows and America’s Test Kitchen is the one that took me the longest to warm up to. Whereas Lidia’s Italy lets you peer over the shoulder of a real Italian grandmother…

  • French Green Lentils with Bacon, Red Wine, and Mushrooms

    French Green Lentils with Bacon, Red Wine, and Mushrooms

    Speaking of being shattered, did I tell you that I shattered my favorite Italian pasta bowl a few weeks ago? Well, someone suggested I go on Replacements.com to find its doppelgänger. I looked at the name of the designer, Richard Ginori, and didn’t find my beloved bowl, but I found so many cool ones, including…

  • Spiced Pork Chops with Delicata Squash and Apple Chutney

    Spiced Pork Chops with Delicata Squash and Apple Chutney

    Making new friends is always a treat but difficult to do when you’re supposed to avoid social gatherings and remain six feet apart while masked. Luckily, I made two new friends last year when the food writer Ben Mims and his partner J made the same move that we made back in 2011 from New…

  • Five Weeknight Dinners That’ll Make Your Week Better

    Five Weeknight Dinners That’ll Make Your Week Better

    Some of you may know that my husband Craig is a director. Last week he went back to work, directing four episodes of our friend Ryan O’Connell’s Emmy-nominated Netflix show Special. The protocols on set are intense, as they should be during Covid. Craig gets tested almost every morning, he wears an N95 mask all…

  • Oatmeal Raisin Cookies That Will Keep You Sane

    Oatmeal Raisin Cookies That Will Keep You Sane

    I don’t know about you, but my head started to crack a bit like an egg last night thirty minutes into the debate. And instead of throwing that egg into a skillet by continuing to watch (“this is your brain on Trump”), I decided to turn off the TV and crack a few eggs for…

  • “This Is Not A Waldorf” Salad

    “This Is Not A Waldorf” Salad

    You don’t often think about turning on your oven to make a salad, but that’s exactly what I did after flipping through Suzannne Goin’s AOC Cookbook during the build-up to lunch on Saturday. My usual salads are normally quick affairs of tearing up some lettuce, drizzling on some good olive oil (lately it’s Séka Hills),…

  • Get Your Freekeh On with Balsamic Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions, and Feta

    Get Your Freekeh On with Balsamic Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions, and Feta

    Sometimes I do Q&As on Instagram and lots of people have been asking me lately how I shop for the week. The answer: I do a Supermarket Sweep every Monday at Cookbook in Echo Park. It’s a SuperMarket Sweep because you get the store to yourself, but you only get ten minutes, so you have…

  • Julia Moskin’s Corn Fritters

    Julia Moskin’s Corn Fritters

    According to Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Julia Moskin, “Corn is the One True Vegetable of American summer.” And though I sound like a broken record talking about trying to cook all of the summer things before it stops being summer (an unlikely prospect here in L.A.), I do have to make some time for corn…

  • Peach Ice Cream

    Peach Ice Cream

    Romeo asked, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” The same can be said of ice cream flavors. If we didn’t call Cookies & Cream “Cookies & Cream,” would it still taste like Cookies & Cream? Ice cream is an arena where names seem to matter. We…

  • Cap Off Your Summer with  Caponata

    Cap Off Your Summer with Caponata

    Okay, we have a week left of summer and I’m milking it for everything it’s worth. Right now I have peaches ripening in my fruit bowl and I’m going to make peach ice cream, probably the last ice cream I’ll make for a while. It’s not that summer truly ends here in L.A. — if…