These spring holidays are contradictory ones, foodwise and in every other way, it seems to me. I grew up eating Easter hams and hunting for eggs laid by chickens, presumably, […]
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COMMUNITY COOKS
About Those Granola Bars: ‘Cooks Know Crumbs Have No Calories’
A reader’s version with a peanut butter and chocolate topping
I read Sophie Mann-Shafir’s “Granola Bars With the Works” (March 23, page B4) with interest because I love granola bars and I, too, have struggled to find a recipe for […]
SNACK TIME
Granola Bars With the Works
Pistachios, cherries, and chocolate chunks come together in not-too-crumbly, not-too-sweet squares
This all started with Edouard Fontenot’s Indie-adapted Eleven Madison Park granola. I had to stop making it this winter because when I had it on hand it took over as […]
NEW ORLEANS DISPATCH
A Friday Fish Fry, Hold the Sacrifice
Crisp fillets with a hint of warm spices are a fine fast-food tradition
NEW ORLEANS — After the many indulgences of Mardi Gras, the Archdiocese of New Orleans publishes a list of antidotes in the Times-Picayune — “fish frys” to fill the Fridays […]
FAMILY RECIPE
An Eggplant Parm That’s as Good as Mom’s
Take it from Rosalie: peel the eggplant, make your own marinara, and don’t use too much cheese
Saying that your mom’s eggplant parm is your favorite thing to eat is like admitting that the Mona Lisa is your favorite painting. It’s a well-deserved classic, of course, but […]
FROM THE LARDER
Fondue Baked Into a Winter Pie
On a trip to France, ‘unexpected events’ are met with the comfort of cheese
In the end it will be the cheese that kills me. Not the red meat. Not the gin. Well, maybe the gin, a little, but mostly the cheese: hard or […]
WHAT’S OPEN
A Late Winter Outer Cape Dining Guide
The Independent’s almost-spring update on where to eat
The sun is up so early now and still in the sky (if it has turned up at all, that is) at 5 p.m. In related good news, this means […]
FROM SCRATCH
While Short Ribs Simmer, a Kitchen Memoir Takes Shape
A soup to accompany a writer’s weird limbo
There’s a marked difference between the menace of blizzard snow, icy and gravelly against the window, and what’s happening here today. Today, the sun is just barely shining through the […]
COOK’S KITCHEN
Nun’s Farts Are Dunkers to Sigh For
A donut devotee makes heavenly fritters for Fat Tuesday
Mardi Gras, a.k.a. Fat Tuesday, is next week — the last hurrah before the 40 days of fasting and self-reflection of Lent begin, for those who observe it. Besides prompting […]
THE ESSENTIALS
Two Cooks in the Kitchen
When love means ‘That’s Italian!’
It’s not always easy for two cooks to coexist peacefully in one kitchen. A neighbor of mine, a well-regarded French chef, lets his partner’s Thai cooking rule at home. In […]
POP-UPS
At The Painted Lady, Don’t Hold the Onions
The couple behind Local 186 get to do their own happy off-season thing
Heather Edwards and Todd Jansen are general manager and chef, respectively, at The Painted Lady — a pop-up making its debut in the space that otherwise belongs to Local 186 […]
WHAT’S OPEN
A Deep Winter Outer Cape Dining Guide
The Independent’s February update on where to eat
Cozy homemade suppers sound romantic in December, but by February the search is on for somewhere to go or at least something good to order in. We found plenty of […]
THE BREAKFAST BEAT
Good Morning, Shakshuka
Starting the day right with garlic, tomatoes, spices, and eggs
Starting my day with pancakes always put me in a moody, sugar-laden stupor. And I never could get behind a bowl of cold cereal for breakfast. Even when I was […]
COOK’S KITCHEN
A Dumpling to Keep You Cozy Through a Long Winter’s Night
Practice makes for perfect, pillowy potato gnocchi
January’s sun sets smack down in the center of Blackfish Creek tinting the clouds beyond my back window a cotton-candy pastel. It’s stop-in-your-tracks gorgeous Cape Cod light. And every bit […]
THE ESSENTIALS
One Chicken, Three Dinners for Two
Rice and greens transform broth into a fine Italian soup
I remember my grandmother — all four-feet-eight of her — standing tall before the grocer, as he rang up her order. “No, sir! I will not pay 59 cents a […]
