One of my most exasperating traits — or, perhaps one that makes me ideally suited for this space I invented, coincidentally, to suit my collection of traits — is that I have a terrific amount of random ingredient preparation ideas …
I’m not sure if this is a sign of hitting a certain age — like a sudden interest in bird feeders (check, and please tell me about yours), or beekeeping (well, in the TikTok sense, not sorry), and animated conversations on the best …
While I’m not from a cheesecake family — it is never unwelcome, but we are more deeply devoted to things like pastry creams, chocolate pudding, and stellar coffee cakes — I married into one, which means that even though this …
I’ve been pining for a springy way to combine leeks and lentils in an unfussy, one-pot, weeknight-friendly way but would get stuck on one thing: how annoying leeks are — and I say this from a place of adoration! I think leeks are o…
I was in Paris* last week — no, I cannot believe I get to utter sentences like that so casually, either, pinch me — and it was really, truly, and surprisingly spring. The magnolia trees at the Jardin du Palais Royal supplied us wit…
Somehow, despite how impossible it seems (to me, a person who has neither aged nor matured a day), that it’s been almost twenty years since I first told you about my family’s favorite coffee cake. It’s tall, plush, crisp with…
How do you cook when your kitchen isn’t available for kitchen-ing? On a Sunday last April, I awoke at the crack of dawn jet-lagged from an (excellent) trip to Amsterdam* to an email from my apartment building that ConEd had found a gas l…
If you want a homemade pizza that requires no kneading, no special flour, or long wait time (because who among has ever said “what I really crave is pizza that will be ready 1 to 3 days from now”), you should really, really be maki…
I’ve craved this specific salad all month and finally caved.
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