During this time of quarantine, in the height of a global pandemic, we can make good meals with what we have on hand: canned tuna, pasta, chicken, potatoes, butter, jarred olives, spices. As a food blogger and a cookbook author, my job is recipes. I spend a good number of…
Pasta e ceci, which literally means pasta and chickpeas, is an essential one-pot Roman recipe, a cousin of pasta e fagioli, brimming with juicy tomatoes, tender chickpeas, hearty greens and pasta. Everything comes together in a simmering broth in just under an hour.
“Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.” ― Lemony Snicket This cinnamon bun recipe uses baking ingredients that you are likely to already have at home. Ooey gooey, sweet and sticky, aromatic cinnamon buns. Warm and tender and glazed with a silky cream…
Comfort cooking on a winter’s evening. Potatoes are a mainstay in my winter kitchen, as are seasonal lemons. I typically have olives and wine at the ready, so after a quick trip to my local fishmonger, Mark Drabich of Metropolitan Seafood, (check out this fantastic article about him here) to…
Winter cooking is among my favorite – the oven is warming both to the kitchen and to my spirit. Aromas rich and comforting in the quiet of February set me at ease as I begin to pine for warmer days ahead. With winter lemons on my counter, a bag of…