There are few more comforting meals than classic mac and cheese. It’s simple and rich kid food that grown ups love, too. And this baked Brussels sprouts mac and cheese is one I turn to again and again. (Adding some vegetable matter makes me feel better about eating a dish that’s mostly carbs and cheese.) …
Weeknight meals
This is a later winter soup. A weeknight soup. A mostly from-the-pantry soup. A simple throw-it-together, simmer, blend, garnish and ladle into bowls and curl up on the couch in your sweatpants and watch some Netflix kind of soup. I first learned about this soup when I came across it on Luisa’s site about five years …
I love a good baked pasta dish. Something that makes the kitchen smell like garlic with a tomato sauce that burbles around a top layer of deeply burnished cheese. And while there are plenty of ways to get there, this baked ziti is my take on the Italian-American classic, and it’s a good one. (I …
When it comes to weeknight dinners that clock in under half an hour and still manage to taste like something real—a little bit cheffy, even—it’s tough to beat this ricotta pasta. It’s a sort of cousin to cacio e pepe, in that in its soul it is a cheesy, creamy tangle of long noodles flecked …
Pasta e ceci is a humble dish. In Italian it means “pasta and chickpeas,” and at its base, it’s just that. But it’s so much more than the sum of those simple parts. I was first introduced to pasta e ceci when I studied abroad in Rome, years ago when I was in college. It …
Who wants chicken for dinner? It turns out I do. At least if it’s crispy and rubbed with a spicy garlicky cashew sauce. I was a vegetarian for a long time, and most of what I eat is still plant-based, but it’s meals like this that make me appreciate my carnivorous side. This recipe comes …