The best types of salt for cooking.

Which type or types of salt are best for cooking? There are so many options, but I’ve narrowed them down to three essential salts in my kitchen.

Toasted pecan granola.

Use the best nuts you can find for this homemade toasted pecan granola recipe, and chop them into big, yummy chunks. You won’t stop eating it!

Really good Irish soda bread.

Tis the season for Irish soda bread, and here’s a really good (and easy) recipe that’s studded with raisins and caraway seed.

Roasted sugar snap and shallot salad.

Here’s a fresh new take on salad, which skips the lettuce and instead focuses on a few vegetables, both raw and cooked, in a simple dressing.

Simple pasta with vegetables.

This simple pasta recipe is endlessly flexible: Use any combination of vegetables that you like. Be sure to choose orecchiette pasta, whose bowl shape works perfectly here.

Sea salt chocolate chip cookies.

You may not think you need another chocolate chip cookie recipe. But you need THIS one.

Buttery Special K cookies.

These buttery cookies can be made with any flake-type cereal you may have on hand. This recipe is inspired by homemade cookies we had at a B&B years ago.