Homemade baked potato chips.
Oh, Oven Chips, how I do love thee. Your dark, crispy edges. Your intense saltiness. You’re so easy, and so eminently flexible. You’re perfectly comfortable with burgers, but you can dress up, too, and go alongside …
Category: Sides
Delicious farro with butternut squash.
Winter’s a great time to cook with healthy grains; here’s a fab recipe for farro with roasted vegetables.
Perfect butter-roasted potatoes.
Sliced potatoes, perfectly roasted with butter and bay leaves. Get the recipe!
Couscous with roasted vegetables.
This easy recipe for couscous spotlights flavorful roasted vegetables. This is a terrific side dish for chicken or grilled fish.
Summer succotash.
In the heart of summer, I cannot get enough of corn, zucchini and tomatoes. They taste intensely of sunshine, they’re incredibly easy to prepare and they’re endlessly flexible. An article in the July/August issue of Eating …
Quick pickles.
I hate pickles. Let me be clear: I. Hate. Pickles. Hate them so much that I avoid at all costs what I call pickle contamination: that is, when the juice from an unwanted dill pickle sogs …
Grilled corn with Parmesan breadcrumbs.
Last summer, I shared a house favorite recipe: Corn and Parmesan gratin, also known as “West Chop Corn” from Susan Branch’s “Summer” cookbook of recipes inspired by Martha’s Vineyard. Now that sweet corn is in season, …
Grilling summer vegetables in foil.
It’s just after the Fourth of July, and summer is in full swing here in the Midwest. After a long, cool, record-breakingly rainy spring, I’m ready for the sun and heat. Bring it on. These long, …
This week at the farmers’ market.
One word: Strawberries!!! The first crop of strawberries showed up this week—not too many, yet, but they’re absolutely delicious. I had a bowl of sliced strawberries with vanilla nonfat Greek yogurt and a sprinkle of Turbinado …
