I make no secret of my love for All Things Pumpkin. I'll happily bake and cook with pumpkin on a year-round basis, but the cool, crisp ...

Back when I began my blog I might have - rashly - thought that of course I'd still be blogging 29 months later, but from my current vant...

It has always been m habit to make stock with the remains of my Thanksgiving turkey (I previously posted my stock recipe here ). I freeze m...

What do you do when you have a surplus of fresh tomatoes? I often make either a quick or a long-simmering tomato sauce. In the summer my...

February 4 is National Homemade Soup day, and I can think of no better way to celebrate than with a hot bowl of English Onion Soup with Sa...

Let's see a show of hands here: When you heard on Oct 5 that Daniel Boulud's restaurant Daniel was just was awarded three-star Mich...

Even though I blanketed this chili with chopped fresh parsley (which usualy does the trick) it still looks pretty dreadful in the picture. ...

Meatballs? Yes please! I have never met a meatball that I haven't liked. Swedish meatballs from IKEA? I've bought them by the ba...

I have been making recipes from Cooking Light for more than 20 years. In fact before Cooking Light was a magazine it was a featured secti...

Black bean soup is one of the signature dishes at the Union Square Cafe in New York. When I ate there a year ago, I ordered this soup. It...

Above: Bobby Flay Below: America's Test Kitchen I didn't set out to have a chili throwdown. Really, I didn't. Most accurately...

Last January I enjoyed a lovely meal at the Union Square Cafe in NYC, including a bowl of their fabulous Black Bean Soup . I intend to try...

When I woke up today, I didn't think I'd spend the better part of the morning cleaning out our two freezers, although they desperate...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We are having an unusual holiday; since A.L.E. flew in today, and our relatives were otherwise occupied, we o...

This hardly qualifies as a real recipe, but busy times call for dinners with shortcuts! The original inspiration for this soup was on a labe...

Back before Google, Epicurious, and the Food Network, finding a good recipe took a bit of digging and, often, some crossed fingers as the ch...

If it is eaten with a spoon, chances are I'll love it. Cereal (hot or cold), pudding, applesauce, soup. Especially soup. Hot, cold, d...

In my forays around the food blogosphere, I came across a reference to walnut sage pesto. And was immediately captivated. We have a nice ...