It’s nearly July but it feels like summer just started. [Probably because technically today is the first day of summer, and also because it ...

Well I've been a bit delinquent, haven't I. Life got really busy and, although I've been cooking just as frequently as I used t...

I’ve really become obsessed with buying everything at the farmers market – Michael Pollan would be proud of me. I haven’t been to the sup...

I couldn’t resist buying the strawberries that were staring me in the face at the supermarket last week. I’m actually not a big fan of str...

I really did not like green beans when I was younger. My mom made them two ways: French cut ones with garam masala and chopped ones with...

I’m on the fence about cornbread. When it’s good, it’s soft, fluffy, and slightly sweet, and I totally love it; when it’s not, it’s grainy...

Update (January 2011): Upon retiring his long-running Minimalist column, Mark Bittman selected his top 25 recipes and this was one of them....

I’ve been really sick the past few days, so I haven’t had the energy to cook. Last night I really wanted tomato soup and grilled cheese – ...

I’ve never been a fan of parsnips, but I sort of changed my mind about them a few weeks ago after using roasted cubes of them in a version ...

And another recipe for brussels sprouts. They have gotten a bad rap for so many years because they haven’t been cooked the right way. Thes...

I always serve roasted Brussels sprouts at Thanksgiving, and this year I wanted to change them up from my usual treatment of toasted walnu...

This is another side dish I served for my family’s Thanksgiving dinner . I had a lot of fun with taking traditional Thanksgiving ingredient...

This is the second course I served at my family’s Thanksgiving dinner. (I know the photo isn't great; it's hard to tell your hung...

I’ve never eaten green beans almondine in my life, so imagine my surprise when I learned that what I thought was a clever way of dressing up...

I'm not really sure where the inspiration for this came from; all I know is that the words coconut and coriander popped into my head whe...

This past Sunday at the market, I noticed that the stand next to my tomato purveyor of choice had tons of zucchini and squash on the cheap:...