Most everyone who loves to cook has probably gone over the top at least once and created a feast of embarrassing excess. My long-ago decadent dinner began as an unlikely work […]
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KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
Button Mushrooms Can Be Magical, Too
We were on our annual pilgrimage to the Met a few years ago and I was giddy with anticipation of getting to watch the chandeliers sail into the ether, but […]
COOK’S KITCHEN
Maybe It’s Time to Set Your Salad on Fire
Three bitter-leaning chicories that subvert the lettuce paradigm
I recalibrate in January (we don’t say “resolutions” in our house). Right after the holidays, I am wildly enthusiastic about vegetables. Winter salads and sheet pans of roasted roots go […]
KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
Garlic-Ginger Paste Warms Up Almost Any Winter Dinner
After a brisk walk down to the bay on frosty winter day, I crave foods to warm me up from the inside out. There’s no better way to raise your […]
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
Broth for a Mid-Winter Morning
A blend of chicken stock, herbs, ginger, and spices to kickstart the New Year
Early winter is a fun season for those of us who like to cook. It’s the time of year when you get to impress friends and express your love through […]
IN BALANCE
The Case Against Resolutions (at Least Until Spring)
A banana chocolate-chip oatmeal to knock your winter morning socks off
Ahhh, a clean slate. It’s that time of year, I know. But I’m trying to keep the rituals of New Year’s resolutions out of my kitchen. Not that I have […]
COOK’S KITCHEN
A Seafood Stew for Christmas Eve
This riff on tradition is bright with tomatoes, thyme, and a hint of orange
My mother loved the holidays. Her big splurge meal was always on Christmas Eve, when she’d proudly serve red and green in the form of lobster with spinach salad on […]
COOKIE PARTY
The Crumbly Thrills of a Tea Cake
If the very thought of baking cutout cookies — the kind that stick to the dough board, rolling pin, and spatula and break before you can even decorate them — […]
COOKIE PARTY
The Bright Sparkle of Cranberry-Orange Cookies
In a former life I oversaw a test kitchen for a food magazine. Given the long lead time needed for development, editing, and printing, that meant Christmas in July every […]
SUGAR AND SPICE
The Bossest Molasses Cookies
Sometimes I wish I lived in my friend Karrie Adamany’s neighborhood. That way I could go over to her place with my sketch pad and colored pencils for drawing night. […]
ROME DISPATCH
Bucatini Cacio e Pepe Is Forever
A plate of pasta to love in the Eternal City
I’ve long suspected that air travel is unnatural, and the physical effects of being hurtled through the air in a metal tube across several time zones get worse as I […]
WHAT’S OPEN
Where the Kitchen Lights Are On
The Independent’s early winter guide to dining out
Sunset’s getting close to 4 p.m. this week. Does that mean meeting for dinner at 6? Why not? We’ve made our list and checked it twice, and the latest kitchen […]
CRUSTY GOODNESS
P’Town Is Pie Town for a Day
Recipes from the winners of the Provincetown Commons pie contest
PROVINCETOWN — Barb Fortier and her partner, Karen Edlund, bought a chicken pot pie for $725 a couple of weeks ago. The pie wasn’t made with a rare breed of […]
HOME GROWN
An Autumn Pilaf Stars the Eastham Turnip
Wild rice and mushrooms are the perfect partners for a humble root
Even though they’re stars among Outer Cape roots, turnips have a reputation for humility. They get along nicely with other earthy vegetables, including carrots, potatoes, beets, and onions. For the […]
WELL DRESSED
Gingerbread Stuffing for a New Tradition
Sometimes all you need is to change things up a little
I have never quite understood the proliferation of Thanksgiving recipes that fill the pages of food publications every November. Isn’t Thanksgiving all about eating the same things with the same […]
