After two of these bourbon cocktails, I think paying taxes is a good thing.
Recipes
Cooking with Scraps: Brothy Beans with Roasted Garlic and Parmesan Rind
These brothy beans are inspired by a recipe that Food52 cofounder Merrill Stubbs makes—they’re a stripped-down, vegetarian take on hers.
Cooking with Scraps: Dill Pickle Brine Potato Salad
Pickle brine is an incredibly useful scrap. Once you start using it—in potato salad!—you might find yourself running out of brine before the jar of pickles.
Cooking with Scraps: Any-Season Strata
A strata is a versatile dish for clearing out odds and ends in the fridge, and it’s make-ahead friendly. A strata is also one of the best ways to put stale bread to good use.
Dorie Greenspan’s Triple-Layer Parsnip and Cranberry Cake
A layer cake is like a fanfare: It blares “Celebration!” Full of flavor, this cake is based on nuts, cranberries and grated parsnips, a vegetable that might not spring to mind immediately when you’re thinking cake.
Dorie Greenspan’s Mediterranean Shepherd’s Pie
There’s a lot of fancy food in this world, and then there’s shepherd’s pie, a rustic hodgepodge often made with leftovers, seldom made the same way twice and always satisfying.
