There’s little I like more than discovering a new dish that folds seamlessly into my life, like it’s always been there. That’s how I feel about this sweet corn and blueberry spoon cake. It’s the sort of dish that my grandmother would have made, except as far as I know she didn’t. But lots of …
Summer
People often ask me how often my cooking experiments fail. And I have to be honest—not often. Not everything gets into the “good enough to share with the world” category, but pretty much everything is good enough to eat. But there have been a few notable exceptions. There were some very old dried chickpeas that …
There’s something magical about the way a well placed splash of acidity can brighten up a whole dish. And these pickled banana peppers are a great vehicle for taking so many meals from fine to OMG so good! Banana peppers get their name from their resemblance to bananas. They’re long and yellow and sometimes curve …
When you find yourself with extra strawberries or rhubarb or peaches or plums or apples or, well, I could go on, one smart thing to do is walk over to the kitchen, and see if you have flour, butter, and sugar around. If so, you’re about 90% of the way to a buckle, a crisp, …
At the peak of summer’s bounty, it can be tricky to figure out what else to do with all of the tomatoes and sweet corn. If you’ve had as many BLTs or tomato sandwiches or panzanella and as much corn on the cob as you want, how do you honor the pint of sungold tomatoes …
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 …