Vegetarian Posts
How to Make Buttermilk Biscuits
These are super easy to make. If you have a food processor or mixer, you can throw them together in less than 10 minutes. If you don’t, it will take just a wee bit longer to cut the butter and flour together with a pastry cutter or a couple of forks. I made these this [...]
Creamy Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
This soup takes a while to make, but very little of that time is actually spent standing over the stove. Chunks of butternut squash, sweet onion, and elephant garlic are slow roasted in the oven for an hour-and-a-half, then simmered quickly with chicken broth and pureed. A cup of heavy cream added at the very [...]
How to Make Buttermilk Pancakes
I’ve had a surprising number of people tell me they have a really hard time making pancakes at home. Here’s how I make my buttermilk pancakes, which I whipped up for The Angry Chef just the other day. How to Make Buttermilk Pancakes: Wait, pancakes made with…olive oil? Yep, yep. My original recipe calls for [...]
8-Cheese Macaroni & Cheese
I have three words for you: ultimate comfort food. Cover anything in cheese, and I’m generally a really happy mouse. The more cheese, the better. Eight cheeses? Now that’s my idea of heaven on earth. Now, this is not haute cuisine (though if you tried, I suppose you could call this a sort of White [...]
Quick & Creamy Tomato Soup
I don’t know if this happens to anyone else, but when the weather turns colder, my inner eight-year-old starts to crave Campbell’s tomato soup and grilled cheese. Here’s my grown-up version. This frequently shows up on our table on weeknights when we don’t have a ton of time to cook. Because the recipe calls for [...]
Garlicky White Beans, Two Ways: Dip & Creamy Soup
I have a great—and relatively newfound—love for white beans. (See? I do eat more than meat.) Here are two of my favorite ways to prepare them. The first recipe is for a thick dip that’s fragrant with garlic and lemon. The second is a creamy, spinach-laden soup that uses the dip as a base. A [...]
Old-Timey Sunday Waffles
These waffles are crunchy on the outside and egg-y and moist on the inside. The Angry Chef and I both like ours slathered with thin slices of cold butter and dripping with good, local maple syrup. If there are any leftover, I like to reheat them in the toaster oven and melt a little cheese [...]
Spinach Raviolis with Aged Gorgonzola and Shaved Pear
This dinner is really easy to make—but appears and tastes as though you spent a fair amount of time slaving in the kitchen. The contrasting flavors and textures of a few good, fresh ingredients make this meal something special. Earilier today, my folks dropped in on their way up to Maine to celebrate their 38th [...]
Roasted Rosemary-Garlic Acorn Squash
This has got to be my favorite way to cook squash, short of doing that kind-of-horrifying-but-still-embarrassingly-yummy thing where you mash it up with butter then bake it under a snowy blanket of marshmallows. Think of this as grown-up version of that. It’s sweet and salty, and is a well-mannered companion for an elegant autumn dinner. [...]
Brown-Sugar Cranberry Sauce
Ever since I was a kid, cranberry sauce has always been one of my favorite things about the fall. Most of the time, my mom made homemade cranberry sauce. Now, she’s an amazing cook. Sometimes, though, if I was lucky and she didn’t have time, she’d bust out that ubiquitous canned cranberry sauce log. (Come [...]
