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.) …
Pasta
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 …
Hot days call for easy meals that don’t require turning on the oven or laboring over a hot stove. We’ve been enduring a heat wave for the last couple of weeks around here, and I have barely had the desire to cook at all. But even if my appetite is a little suppressed by the …
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 …