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...
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...
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...
Easy Sunday Hash Brown Omelette
Omelettes have always been one of my favorite weekend foods. You can get up late, fill one with whatever you have on hand, and it will keep you going for most of the day.
When...
Herb Roasted Chicken Legs with Root Vegetables
I know that fall is officially on its way when I start to roast chicken.
Even though I bake pretty consistently year round, I'd never dream of roasting a chicken in the summer. For some...
Smoky Corn Chowder
This soup is gloriously rich and bursting with chunks of sweet corn and potato.
It gets its smokiness from bacon and chipotle pepper. The pepper's heat is tempered nicely by the creamy broth. If you're...
Sesame Garlic Snap Pea Salad
I've had a lot of requests for this lately when we have a barbecue. The crisp beans are a refreshing balance for smoky, spicy pork ribs or a perfectly charred sirloin.
The toasty sesame dressing...
Fiery Tomato Salad
So it finally stopped raining in Boston. While the rain's been bad for just about everyone and everything lately, my veggies have been loving it. I have more peppers and tomatoes than I know...
Midsummer Harvest
Despite being plagued by the dreaded Tomato Horn Worm (if you've ever grown tomatoes, you know how horrifying these beasts are), this summer has been a remarkably good one for my vegetable garden.
Like a...
Crunchy Kosher Pickles
Seeing as it's summer, here are the pickles I remember from my childhood. They're the perfect complement to any BBQ.
They're really crispy, and have just the right amount of bite that they don't overwhelm...