No-Cook Pasta Sauce #1: Angel Hair Zucchini
I’m on deadline with a bunch of projects this week, so I’ll keep it short and simple. It’s hot. I don’t want to cook, especially because I’m testing at least two desserts a day for the Easy Indulgences chapter of the cookbook. So I don’t cook. Well, I cook a little—just a single pot, for ...Keep Reading
Escarole Salad with Pecorino, Lemon, and Mint
I don’t know about you, but when I think “salad,” escarole isn’t usually the first green to pop into my mind. Or even the second. To me, escarole is a cold-weather vegetable, one to braise lovingly alongside white beans or add to farro-and-white-bean soup, maybe mix into a frittata with sautéed mushrooms and zucchini. But ...Keep Reading
It Had to Happen
(Move along, nothing to see here—unless you’re interested in my Weight Watchers progress…) I gained weight this week. Six-tenths of a pound, so it’s not much, and I definitely had it coming. I, uh, overdid things a bit over the course of the week. Several times, in fact. It started with that brisket. Oh, it ...Keep Reading
Jim Lahey’s Mushroom Pizza
I seem to be on a pizza kick. What can I say? Maybe it’s because, now that I got a taste of how ridiculously easy it is to make dough from scratch, a whole new world has opened up. Or maybe it’s because my adorable, almost-a-preschool-graduate* son spent the weekend asking for two things: Hot ...Keep Reading
Apple-Cinnamon Whole Wheat Pancakes
I’ve had a hankering for pancakes. And so, it seems, has my son—he asked for them at least three times this week, but my freezer stash was depleted so a weekday pancake-fest wasn’t in the cards. Sunday morning, on the other hand… especially a Sunday morning when my darling child wakes me at 5:45? Plenty ...Keep Reading
