French picnic salad in a jar.
This beautiful layered salad in a jar is perfectly portable for a picnic or lunch at the office.
Category: Meat and fish
Grilled tomato-basil chicken.
We returned from a long weekend in Florida to warm temps here, and this grilled chicken was the perfect homecoming dinner.
Better than store-bought: Homemade chicken stock.
Good quality packaged chicken broth will do in a pinch, but it’s a snap to make fantastic homemade chicken stock.
Spiced steak and tomatoes.
There are two dishes that combined prevent me from becoming a full-on vegetarian: Rob’s always-perfect grilled hamburgers and this: Fennel-spiced steak that’s grilled and served over sliced tomatoes. When summer tomatoes are at their best—big ones, …
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 …
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 …
Fusilli with shrimp & chicken.
When I was newly married 20 (gulp!) years ago, one of my first acquisitions for our tiny apartment kitchen was a subscription to Bon Appétit magazine. Bon Appétit taught me as much about cooking—and especially about …
