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garlic

  • Spicy Cauliflower Pasta

    Spicy Cauliflower Pasta

    Whenever I’m asked “what’s your favorite cookbook?” my instant response is always The Zuni Café Cookbook by Judy Rodgers. What’s funny about that is that as much as I adore this book — it’s a constant presence on my most prominent cookbook shelf — I rarely, if ever, cook from it.

  • Focaccia with Butternut Squash, Garlic, and Sage

    Focaccia with Butternut Squash, Garlic, and Sage

    Butternut squash and sage in the spring? Alice Waters would throw a fit! But, hear me out: we went to Sailor last week in Fort Greene and April Bloomfield’s food was so incredible — I’m still dreaming about that green toast… and that chicken… and that stuffed radicchio — that I spent much of Saturday…

  • Cavatappi with Anchovies, Garlic, and Red Peppers

    Cavatappi with Anchovies, Garlic, and Red Peppers

    Following a recipe can sometimes feel like you’re on a mad voyage with a crazed captain determined to set your kitchen ablaze in a quest to capture that ephemeral, culinary white whale. “Are you out of your mind?” I wanted to yell at Melissa Clark, whose Pasta with Caramelized Peppers and Anchovies inspired this particular…

  • Three Smoke Alarm Chicken, Sausage, and Broccoli Rabe

    Three Smoke Alarm Chicken, Sausage, and Broccoli Rabe

    As far as arrivals to one of my dinner parties go, last night was maybe the most dramatic of all time. I was making a chicken and sausage dish from Nancy Silverton’s under-appreciated cookbook Mozza at Home (I seriously consider it one of the best cookbooks to come out in recent years) and I’d cranked…

  • Chicken Under A Brick (Or A Cast Iron Skillet)

    Chicken Under A Brick (Or A Cast Iron Skillet)

    Scared you, didn’t I? Well I didn’t mean to. It’s funny how many people read my last post and assumed I was ending my blog. That’s not what I said! I just said that my blog was no longer my primary source of income; in many ways, it’s a liberating state of affairs. It means…

  • My New Favorite Fall Salad

    My New Favorite Fall Salad

    Sometimes there’s a salad that you like, but don’t love, and then you change a few things about it and suddenly it’s your new favorite salad. That’s what happened with this salad, a familiar combination of apples and fennel and walnuts and golden raisins and arugula. It’s one you can probably find in my archives…

  • Bruschetta with Homemade Ricotta, Roasted Yellow Peppers, and Green Garlic

    Bruschetta with Homemade Ricotta, Roasted Yellow Peppers, and Green Garlic

    So once you have your homemade ricotta, the next question is: what to do with it? Me, I decided to be ultra-spontaneous. Well mostly spontaneous. On Saturday, I bought a nice loaf of bread, made the ricotta, left it overnight in the refrigerator to drain. Then, on Sunday, with dinner guests coming at 5:30, I…

  • David Lebovitz’s Caramel Pork Ribs and Garlicky Slaw

    David Lebovitz’s Caramel Pork Ribs and Garlicky Slaw

    Many moons ago, a man in Paris wrote me an e-mail and told me about his food blog with a link at the bottom. I clicked it dubiously–we food bloggers get e-mails like this all the time–only when I clicked, the blog it took me to was unusually impressive. More importantly, the man behind it…

  • Spaghetti with Purple Cauliflower Sauce

    Spaghetti with Purple Cauliflower Sauce

    Unpacking my first CSA box felt a bit like opening presents on Christmas morning. (Note: I’m Jewish but I date a non-Jew, so I know what I’m talking about.) There was the going to bed the night before, knowing the box would arrive the next day; the anticipation, getting out of bed that next morning,…

  • Easy Weeknight String Beans

    Easy Weeknight String Beans

    The name of the game on a weeknight, as far as I’m concerned, is “big results, minimum effort.” Recipes that meet that criteria are few and far between, but when you hit on one (like the roasted broccoli, for example) you’ll never forget it. Meet your new string bean side. You won’t need your old…