Category: Main Dishes

The fantasy: Your house is clean. Your children have finished their homework and are playing by themselves quietly and without incident. You have the time to chop, sauté and simmer, and fill your house with …

This recipe, which is adapted from Dorie Greenspan, may not pass the five year old test (until she TRIES it) but it is one of my favorites. Dorie calls it "Pumpkin Stuffed with Everything Good" …

  There are things I love, but I’m too lazy to make them often. Chicken and dumplings – a relatively simple dish — just seems exhausting to me. Cooking all that chicken! Making that soup! …

...Of course, once we got home, I had Maine withdrawal. Lobster in California is never, ever, ever $2.99 a pound. So I made do, in a thrifty New England way, and came up …

...The first time I made this street meat, the scent of the rice instantly carried me back to that summer, and I was, however briefly, 24 again. It has since become a serious …

Ordinarily as a Californian, I decry hot weather. “We get plenty of sunshine!” I say. “Bring on the rain and the fire’s cozy glow.” Well, here it is, the end of March, and I realize …

Soup is one of those hearty, homey dishes I’d like to make more often.  Wintertime is when I crave soup, but it’s also the time when our family business is at its peak.  Easy soups …