Category: Main Dishes

The first meal you cook in a new kitchen feels portentous. As if the success or failure of all future culinary endeavors rests on the results of that one meal. It shouldn't be too …

I've never been tempted to be a vegetarian. I never went through that adolescent phase where I got squeamish about meat. I don't find chickens or cows particularly cute; I will cheerfully handle …

\ I don't really understand the marketing of Mother's Day. I see all these floral pastel cards and delicate lacy handkerchiefs and early morning breakfast in bed and advertisements for "brunch" and "afternoon tea" with …

I grew up in the kitchen. From a tender age, I watched my mother cook dinner every night, and began "helping", by stirring a sauce here, adding a pinch of herbs there.  …

Back in the day when I lived in New York, I was more than a little homesick. I pined and yearned for my home state of California, and pounced on everything I could find …

I was roasting a chicken the other night, and I realized that I've never posted roast chicken on my blog, which I really should. It's my go to Sunday night supper, one we have …

The summer after I graduated from college, I took off for Europe. I wasn't living the bohemian life with a backpack and a Eurail pass (Quel horreur!), I was traveling with my parents and …