Inspired by Food52’s Cheddar, Mustard, and Tomato Galette recipe and a big bowl of ripe plums, Matt and I decided to turn on the old oven for the first time all summer and bake a couple of galettes. One savory and the other sweet. In a food processor we quickly made a simple pâté brisée […]
Food Notes
Cooking Solo: The Joy of Cooking for Yourself
Table for one! We loved this idea. Of course food and all its pleasures are meant to be enjoyed around a table with a warm body in every chair. The more the merrier, right? But, after spending time with Klancy Miller’s new book Cooking Solo, you’ll come to realize, as Klancy does, that “preparing a meal for yourself is a special exercise, an unpressured act of creativity, self-care, and validation.”
Easy Dinners for Back-to-School Week
Your weeknights just got a whole lot busier. No worries! We’re here to help. Robyn curates a week’s worth of our kid-friendliest dinners. Pull together a shopping list, hit the make-ahead elements on Sunday night, and get to helping with homework that much sooner.
Never-Ending Summer, The Italian Way
Want to hold on to summer a little longer? How about for months longer? Us too. Cooking teacher and author Domenica Marchetti knows how to make summer’s bounty last—and how to make it last the Italian way. If you love Italian flavors—and preserving fruits and vegetables in interesting (mostly easy) ways, the book Preserving Italy is for you.
The Fix for Busy Cooks
If you find long recipe ingredient lists daunting and twenty minutes of meal prep prohibitive this time of year, we’ve got a fix for you. Or rather, chef and cookbook author Stuart O’Keeffe has the fix. Stuart’s new book, The Quick Six Fix includes 100 No-Fuss, Full-Flavor Recipes (subtitle). And here’s where that fix comes […]
Where Are Your Favorite Fresh Corn Stands?
On his way through the rolling Litchfield Hills, Alex Province was struck by how beautiful Connecticut is this time of year. And one of his favorite things to see on those hills. . .farms. And rows and rows of corn, as far as the eye can see. Crops so close to the road you feel […]
