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  • Chicken Liver Toast & The Secret To A Good Chicken Salad

    Chicken Liver Toast & The Secret To A Good Chicken Salad

    For as long as I’ve been roasting chickens (and I roast chickens all the time) I’ve been throwing away the liver that comes stuffed inside, along with the giblets, because–well–I don’t know: am I supposed to cook and eat that thing? Well, yes. I mean not all the time. But they don’t put it in…

  • Leftover Broccoli Sauce

    Leftover Broccoli Sauce

    You know that thing where you buy two big bunches of broccoli for dinner one night and then you only end up using one bunch so the other bunch sits in your refrigerator in a plastic bag for a week? And then, one week later, you look at it and kind of feel sorry for…

  • Lebanese Chickpea Stew

    Lebanese Chickpea Stew

    The first post of 2013 has to be a winner–that’s a rule–and so it’s a huge relief to share with you a dish that I made for dinner the other night that’s such a winner, it portends very good things for the year to come. I’m at the point now where I can read a…

  • Anything Goes Salad

    Anything Goes Salad

    After my New York Public Library event with Deb Perelman (there were 230 people there!), I’m rethinking my whole blog. Somehow, through my aggressive questioning, I forced Deb to give up her blogging secrets. And the one that’s really staying with me the most is the fact that she cooks during the day to have…

  • Rustic Vegetable Ragu

    Rustic Vegetable Ragu

    Cooking without a recipe. How do you do it? You start with ingredients. My favorite way to do that is to open my refrigerator to see what’s there: on Friday night (when Craig was working late and his parents were flying in from Seattle) I saw carrots, I saw celery, I saw onions. I decided…

  • Pasta with Roast Chicken, Currants and Pine Nuts* (*Unless You Can’t Afford Them)

    Pasta with Roast Chicken, Currants and Pine Nuts* (*Unless You Can’t Afford Them)

    Two of my favorite dinners in the world are roast chicken and pasta. In fact, if I had a death sentence looming over my head, I’d ask to be executed twice so I could have two last meals, one a roast chicken, the other a big plate of pasta. Luckily, that’s no longer an issue…

  • Harvest Roast Chicken with Grapes and Olives

    Harvest Roast Chicken with Grapes and Olives

    I am so proud of my friend Deb Perelman and her Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, which is taking the world by storm. She’s proving, with her New York Times bestseller status and Amazon-clobbering sales rank, that food bloggers are here to be taken seriously. It’s especially exciting because Deb and I have the same cookbook agent…

  • Easy Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese

    Easy Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese

    Sometimes I write recipe posts where I share a recipe at the end and other times I write recipe posts where the recipe is embedded in the post itself. There’s a reason for that! Recipe posts where the recipe’s at the end are the kinds of recipes where specific amounts matter; recipe posts where I…

  • Sam Sifton’s Thanksgiving Pear Cobbler

    Sam Sifton’s Thanksgiving Pear Cobbler

    Talk about waiting until the last minute… Most food blogs and websites have inundated you with Thanksgiving recipes for WEEKS and here I am, the day before Thanksgiving, offering you up a recipe for cobbler. But maybe you’re still figuring out dessert? And maybe you haven’t heard about Sam Sifton’s Thanksgiving book yet? If the…

  • Easy Butternut Squash Soup with Whiskey Ginger Cream

    Easy Butternut Squash Soup with Whiskey Ginger Cream

    When I got back from my book tour, all I wanted to do was cook cook cook. Comfort foods, mostly. That first night it was my ultimate comfort food dish of fusilli with homemade tomato sauce and a Caesar salad to start. The next night, though, I wanted a different sort of comfort food. I…