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...
Rustic Cranberry Bacon Chutney with Rosemary and Port
This stuff is so good, it's evil.
It's smokey and sweet. It's dotted with bits of bacon and rosemary. It's bursting with unexpected orange flavor that's followed by a refreshing tartness from the cranberries.
I could...
Split Pea Soup with Homemade Pork Stock
This soup was a happy accident.
Normally, I make split pea soup the way a lot of folks do: I simmer split peas in water with garlic, a handful of diced carrots and onions, and,...
Garlic and Ginger Infused Chicken Broth
Everyone has their own cold remedy. This is mine.
Make the sniffles stop!
I've had a savage cold for the last three days. Since The Angry Chef is catching it, too, neither of us was in...
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...
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...
Crispy Bacon Buns
At the risk of sounding like a big geek, these are buns that would make a Hobbit proud. They're fragrant with garlic and dotted with crispy chunks of bacon. They're marvelous slathered with a...
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...
Old-Fashioned Pasta Salad
This is one of those recipes that's better the next day. And even better the one after.
It's a good base pasta salad recipe, so you can add anything else that you want to it...