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  • Sweet Potato, Corn and Jalapeño Bisque

    I don't know about your pantry, but mine is stuffed to the gills with root vegetables these days. Turnips and rutabagas and celery root and, most of all, sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes upon sweet potatoes upon sweet potatoes. My farm is churning them out at an alarming rate. And while I'm grateful for my winter…

  • Bret Thompson’s Double Chocolate Cookies

    Uhh. Looky there. Chocolate. On chocolate. More chocolate. Can't speak, can't think. COOOKIE. Is this what it feels like to be a 15-year old boy in the presence of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model? The Culinary SOS column has struck again and with a vengeance. I read it last Wednesday and by Thursday night was…

  • Melissa Clark’s Roasted Broccoli with Shrimp

    You should totally make this for dinner tonight. No, really, you should. It's fast, it's delicious, it dirties only one pan (two, if you decide to make some rice, which I think you should), and it's so simple you can enlist your partner to help with measuring spices and seasoning the shrimp and opening and…

  • Amy Scattergood’s Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes with Fried Sage

    I am, shall we say, a little distracted these days. I'm leaving for Germany in a little less than three days. And I'm not coming back until the first days of January. That's the longest vacation I've taken in a good bit and I'm sort of agog at the prospect of so much (badly-needed) time…

  • Amy Scattergood’s Cranberry Bean, Lacinato Kale and Pasta Soup

    I've been doing this thing lately where I try to spend less than five dollars on lunch during the week. It's more difficult than you'd think, though perhaps not to those of you who work in Manhattan. A slice place opened up near me recently advertising one-dollar slices of pizza, which worked once or twice,…

  • Chocolate Chip Cookies with Buckwheat Groats

    Fine, you got me. I skipped a day, yesterday to be exact. I'm sorry. It's just that Sunday was such a nice day, so pretty outside and so full of other things to do besides cook and write, like walking in the Gardens and talking about our wedding and sitting around being indolent. Oh, and…

  • Lora Zarubin’s Warm Gruyere Sandwich with Mustard and Thyme

    It's been interesting to find out some things over the past few weeks. Despite what my passport tells me and the fact that I dutifully pay taxes every single year, cry every time I see an ad for the USO, and think American literature is a. not dead and b. pretty damn good, some people…

  • Edna Lewis’s Sour-Milk Griddle Cakes

    I'm sorry I left so abruptly, without warning. I wanted to tell you about these pancakes before we left, I really did, but you know how it goes with these mid-season vacations: they creep up out of nowhere and smack you out of your tired routine with unexpected strength. Before I knew it, I was…

  • Nigel Slater’s Peas with Olive Oil and Mint

    Okay, brace yourselves. This one's going to be short and sweet and to the point. Because we all have something else we should be doing – making these peas. You could be wondering why, and I'll tell you. They're likely the only way I will ever cook frozen peas again. Woah. That's a bold statement,…

  • Anya von Bremzen’s Potato Soup with Fried Almonds

    I've just checked weather.com and according to the map over there, not a single part of the continental United States has any sun right now. (Darn Hawaii.) So let's all take a collective breath and remember, February is the shortest month of the year for a reason. It is nasty out there today – New…