A foodie fund-raiser.
How is it that Rob and I have lived in Cincinnati for years and only just discovered 1 Night 12 Kitchens? This event raises scholarship funds for students at the Midwest Culinary Institute at Cincinnati State, …
Category: Main dishes
Pizza with chard and onion.
It’s a wonder that pizza—a single-crust version without any pepperoni, sausage or Mozzarella cheese, one topped with healthy veggies, no less—could taste so rich. I spotted this recipe for Onion Pizza with Ricotta and Chard in …
Moroccan chicken tagine.
Our January trip to Morocco opened my eyes to a world of sights and smells I’d never experienced. And it introduced my palate to a fantastic way of cooking. I’d been passingly familiar with Moroccan cooking, …
Pasta with sausage and other good stuff.
In my library of a decade’s worth of old Bon Appétit magazines, I know exactly which issue to reach for: September 1995, the American Restaurants Issue. Page 93. Page 93 is dog-eared, wrinkled from the steam …
Basic risotto.
We have a Williams-Sonoma Collection cookbook (you know, one of those slim, almost square volumes they’ve published for years) devoted to risotto. We’ve had this since about 1996, and it is thoroughly abused: spine cracked, pages …
Better than store-bought: How to make easy homemade pasta (really).
I love the idea of making my own pasta, but I never do it. First, there are so many excellent dried pastas available out there—my favorites being Rao’s Homemade and Cipriani. Second, I don’t own a …
A flavorful, healthy fish recipe.
Several years ago at a family gathering, we enjoyed a fantastic dinner that featured healthy grilled fish supported by an explosion of flavors. I didn’t get the recipe, but nonetheless managed to deconstruct the dish and …
An international dinner.
Some days, it’s all I can do to think of something interesting and healthy to fix for dinner. Some days, I’m completely inspired to cook. Yesterday was one of the latter. Four things conspired to produce …
Pizza with pretty much everything.
As I was paging through the December issue of Food & Wine over the holiday break, a gorgeous pizza recipe caught my eye: Called Pizza Vesuvio with the Works, it’s from Rustic, the new restaurant that’s …
