It seems like everyone in the farmers’ market has strawberries in their shopping bags or in their hands. Who can walk by the tables — brimming with boxes of…
Appetizer/ mezze (small plates)/ my favorites/ Poultry/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Sticky Wings and Pickled Things | Ottolenghi
An evening at home streaming a Hollywood movie and serving up sticky wings and pickled things may be the perfect entertainment or a cozy retreat. Can’t decide which? I…
autumn/ Bake/ cheese/ Italian/ my favorites/ pasta/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Butternut Squash Lasagna Pie | Yotam Ottolenghi
Butternut squash lasagna pie that looks like a cake, rather than a casserole, sets the tone for a fall celebration. Outside, the leaves are slowly showing their brilliant colors.…
Mediterranean/ mezze (small plates)/ Seafood/ vegetarian
Scallops with Roasted Catalan Sauce | José Andrés
We are welcoming José Andrés as the current featured chef at I Heart Cooking Club whose members will be cooking and blogging his recipes. Very few chefs show up…
In his cookbook Jamie Oliver Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy, there are easy and versatile recipes post-pandemic, I hope. Whether you’re planing a casual dinner or a celebration feast…
easy everyday/ Grill/ summer/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Grilled Corn with Avocado Butter, Grilled Limes and Aleppo Chili
Jersey Fresh produce, homegrown sweet corn, tomatoes, squash, eggplant, green beans are bountiful and glorious. I have to find new ways to take advantage of the summer harvest, especially…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Seafood
Portuguese-Style Sea Bass & Beans En Papillote | Everyday Dorie
We eat fish regularly and having more ways to cook fish is wonderful. First of all, en papillote is French for “in a pouch,” or sealing and baking the…
A puff-pastry pie shell filled with spinach and feta is “approachable” and “crowd-pleasing”; “healthy” and “hearty”; “unpretentious,” with a bit of a built-in “wow.” That’s the way Ottolenghi describes…
Fish/ Mediterranean/ my favorites/ Roast/ Sauté/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Cod with Sweet and Sour Pepper | Yotam Ottolengi
When I see this recipe in Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem, one other cod dish comes to mind. It’s the cod Basquaise from Eric Ripert. The ingredients are similar, but the similarity…
Ellie Krieger/ foundation recipe/ Pantry essentials/ pasta/ Soup
The Checklist to Build Your Own Favorite Soup | Minestrone
Winter is upon us, when the outside temperature drops and stays low, our craving turns to a warm and hearty bowl of soup. What can be more sustaining and…
It’s a good day when you score a dish like the one-pan orecchiette puttanesca. I mean it in every sense of the word. First, it takes one pan from…
There are a few seasonal ingredients in which we indulge: wild-caught Chilean sea bass and blood oranges. That’s what we have and I put them into Dorie’s citrus-marinated sea…
cheese/ Mark Bittman/ Meat/ my favorites/ pasta/ Salad/ summer/ Toss
Antipasto Salad | Giada De Laurentiis & Mark Bittman
I combine part of Giada’s antipasto salad and part of Bittman’s tomato salad to make a big platter of antipasto. That plate speaks the language of Italy with ingredients…
Layering a chicken chili with a cornbread topping, that’s the essence of a chicken-chili tamale pie. This is my first. It’s very much like the way you’d make a…
Last time I made something similar to the Mediterranean shepherd’s pie was the chicken pot parmentier from My Paris Kitchen by David Lebovitz. Remember that! They are both delicious…
A good alternative to a tomato-based pizza is a white pizza. Make the white base with mascarpone, pecorino, anchovies, sage and lemon zest and a good grind of pepper.…
In 2021, I’d like to take up a notch with some of the classic recipes which seem to defy time and place. The first one is coq au vin,…
Braise/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Meat
Slow-cook Brisket with Carrots and Sweet Potatoes | Everyday Dorie
Among the many appliances I have in the kitchen, slow-cooker is not one of them, surprisingly. To slow cook, I prefer sous vide or use a Dutch oven in…
Haven’t been making focaccia for a while. Why? For some reasons and for a long time, the focaccia have not turned out as well as I’ve expected. However, I…
I can’t think of a more appropriate place to deploy the kitchen-sink approach to cooking than the bean and tortilla soup. Besides a long list of ingredients, this soup…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Pantry essentials/ Salad/ Sauté/ Seafood/ summer
Miso Corn and Squid | Everyday Dorie
Dorie writes about her encounter with the mythical Kyoto corn and the other Japanese culinary wizardry. That stirs up the sensational memory of my solo trip to Kyoto (my…
cheese/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Pantry essentials/ Side/ summer
Ricotta Spoonable | Everyday Dorie
The idea of having a ricotta spoonable to go with almost anything is appealing. I serve the spoonable with some steamed yellow beans and crabmeat. I’m fortunate to receive…
Let’s be honest. Easy cassoulet is an oxymoron. It isn’t easy without committing the labor, time, lots of ingredients and mindfulness to make a cassoulet. Cassoulet is a rich…
What does a bread baker do with all the time on her hands amid the lockdown? Well, my focus has been to bake breads that require more time than…
The shelter-in-place order is less of an interruption of daily life than I thought. I use the unique opportunity of being home to clean out my freezer, among other…