These no-knead dinner rolls are a snap to throw together. Thanks to the help of a muffin tin, you don’t have to do any tricky shaping. Buttery and crisp on the exterior and soft and tender on the interior, these rolls are perfect for the holiday table! 🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞 I know you may think there is no possible way you have time to add one more item, let alone homemade dinner rolls , to your Thanksgiving Day timetable, but I’m here on this snowy November morning to encourage — to insist!...
I made it and loved it and made it again and again. I wrote about it over on Food52. It’s a one-pot wonder made with water (as opposed to stock), and it’s seasoned with thyme, smoked paprika and lemon. I love the greens and cubes of feta gently folded in at the end. Description Adapted from the barley risotto with marinated feta in Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem . 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped, to yield a heaping cup 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 cup pearled farro 3 to 4 sprigs thyme 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika 1 bay leaf 4 strips of lemon peel Pinch crushed red pepper flakes one 15 -oz can crushed tomatoes or one pound of diced fresh tomatoes 4 cups water Kosher salt and pepper to taste 5 ounces kale or chard, leaves removed from stems, finely chopped (about 4 packed cups) 6 ounces feta, preferably in brine, cut into 1/2 -inch cubes Heat the 4 tablespoons of the olive oil in a large sauté pan or pot over medium-high heat....
This calzone, filled with a mix of goat cheese and mozzarella, minced scallions, parsley, garlic, and prosciutto, is heaven. Made from six-inch rounds of pizza dough, this recipe makes great use of pizza dough you may stashed in your fridge or a batch you make from scratch. See recipe box for details. Calzones in essence are steaming hot pockets of goodness. Envelope cheese in any number of ingredients, tuck it all into pizza dough, fold and bake, and it’s bound to be good....
Here’s a really fun, delicious meal to kick off grilling season: smoky grilled chicken thighs with cucumber-yogurt sauce. In essence, this meal reminds me very much of how my mother makes and serves chicken souvlaki : she grills garlic- and basil-marinated chicken and serves it with tzatziki, pita or flatbread, lemon wedges, and often a cucumber salad on the side. Here, the spices and sauces look farther east: the chicken marinates with cumin, coriander, and smoked paprika, the cucumber-yogurt sauce is inspired by an Indian recipe , and the spiced green sauce, skhug, is a condiment often used in Yemeni and Israeli cooking....
I grew up eating meat with tzatziki, a garlicky, lemony-yogurt sauce. Most often it was aside this chicken souvlaki , a favorite summer meal, but in addition to mint sauce , it often was on the table with lamb , too. In recent years, I’ve learned I love yogurt sauce just as much with vegetables — I love how its tang so nicely complements the earthiness of roasted squash, cauliflower, eggplant and others....
I’ve been trying to do a test run of Suzanne Goin’s stuffing with slow-cooked kale, but I can’t get beyond the cooking of the slow-cooked kale step. I’ve tried twice, but the kale keeps disappearing, and as a result, my loaves of country bread and bulbs of fennel continue to be neglected. Cooking kale in this manner is new for me. For one, like many people, I have taken to eating it raw not only because it tastes good but also because one raw bunch can be stretched over more meals than one cooked bunch....
With crisp edges, soft and chewy centers, and plenty of texture throughout, these white chocolate macadamia nut cookies are heaven! The dough comes together in one bowl, and the cookies bake in just about 10 minutes. Easy and delicious! At first glance, this white chocolate macadamia nut cookie recipe, from Yossy Arefi’s Snacking Bakes , looks like a classic, but upon closer inspection, you’ll see it’s so much more. For one, they are made with brown butter, which in addition to lending a lovely nuttiness also allows the batter to be mixed without a stand mixer....
Despite being inundated with CSA greens, I found myself returning from the co-op this week with Wellington’s spinach, a big bag of emerald green, crinkly and craggy leaves. I couldn’t resist. I had a recipe in mind, too, a warm spinach salad I had made years ago, which I had forgotten about, but whose method I love. No surprise, it comes from Chez Panisse Vegetables and calls for gently wilting the spinach in a stainless steel bowl set over simmering water....
The quantity of herbs heaped onto nearly every dish at every Vietnamese restaurant never ceases to amaze me. And this time of year, I crave nothing more than eating this kind of food: fresh, light, fragrant. Summer rolls lined with mint, green papaya salad speckled with Thai basil, chicken salad loaded with scallions and cilantro — oh Nam Phuong ! You feel so far away. This is another nice no-mayo salad to serve at a summer gathering or to bring to a potluck....
Last week, in my Thanksgiving Menu 2021 post , I mentioned I might bring back my Great Aunt Phyllis’s candied yams. Here they are in all their glory, creamy, orange-scented, brandy-spiked sweet potatoes buried under a blanket of brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon-spiced pecans. This is a very classic recipe, unapologetic in its use of butter and sugar, and I did not alter the recipe a hair, but for adding salt to the purée....
Ali Slagle, a recipe developer, food stylist, and frequent contributor to The New York Times , has a new book out, I Dream of Dinner (so you don’t have to) . It’s filled with 150 low-effort, high-reward recipes, all of which call for fewer than 8 ingredients and come together in less than 45 minutes. I have made three recipes from the book: good sauce from so-so tomatoes, skillet broccoli spaghetti , and crispy potato, cheese, and egg tacos, the recipe featured in this post, the one I think captures the spirit of the book best of all: it takes all of ten minutes to make, and it might be the most delicious thing you eat all year....
Five years ago, I published a post just after the New Year titled: Detox: Sesame-Crusted Tofu with Nuoc Cham . The sesame crust for this tofu included panko, which led one commenter to note it “wouldn’t actually be part of a detox because of the panko. Detoxing excludes gluten or wheat products.” News to me. I am a hopeless detoxer. I will never give up bread or legumes or grains or any other vilified foods this time of year....
If you love falafel but are deterred by the idea of deep-frying at home, these falafel burgers are for you. They’re loaded with vegetables, herbs, and spices, making them not only delicious but healthy, too. Serve with pita, quick-pickled onions, schug, tahini or yogurt sauce — the combination is spectacular 🥙🥙🥙 If you, as I, may have been a wee aggressive in your stockpiling of dried chickpeas mid March, I have just the recipe for you: broiled “falafel” burgers....
Flavored with orange zest and orange liqueur, this ricotta pound cake is incredibly tasty and moist. It is the perfect treat, particularly nice as an afternoon snack with a cup of tea, but it is equally good served for breakfast or brunch or even dessert — so versatile. Everyone raves! As five of us celebrated a quiet Thanksgiving down here in Virginia, the rest of my family journeyed north to Vermont to the shores of Lake Champlain for a wild gathering with my aunt and uncle....
Friends, I opened the mailbox this morning and found a hand-written note from a dear old friend. I had to transcribe it and share it with you. Dear Ali, I hope this letter finds you well. I just wanted to write because with the holiday season rapidly approaching, I know you and I and many of your friends will be spending a lot of time together. I feel awkward reaching out like this, but I think it’s best I voice my concerns now....
Have 10 minutes? Make this fresh enchilada sauce! Smoky, spicy, fresh, and bright, this sauce requires broiling vegetables briefly, then puréeing them with fresh lime juice and chipotle in adobo. Your enchiladas will never taste so good! This enchilada sauce tastes incredibly complex with notes of heat, smoke, and char, but it has a brightness, too, thanks to the fresh tomatoes, onions, garlic, and jalapeño. What’s more, it’s truly a snap to throw together:...
As someone who loves to cook, it’s a shame I’m not a better gardener. How nice would it be , I often think, to step outside with my kitchen shears to trim lettuce and herbs for our nightly salad, to pluck snap peas for snacking and cucumbers for pickling? I like to imagine my yard a sea of raised beds, to picture my days spent outside tending my mini farm, my nights in the kitchen cooking and preserving my daily harvests....
Somehow winter passed, and I didn’t make a single pot of tomato soup. Somehow spring arrived, and six inches of snow still covers my lawn. I’m craving rhubarb ( cooking with it , too), but living on beans and bread ; still making soup all the time. Here’s the latest: creamy tomato soup from a 2012 Bon Appetit . The recipe is incredibly simple, calling for nearly all pantry items: onions, garlic, tomato paste, and canned peeled tomatoes....
Bon Appetit began running a column this month called The Project , in which they detail how to make involved dishes, ones that require ambition, energy, thought, dishes such as cassoulet or ramen or their debut project: kouign-amann , a buttery pastry from Brittany, France. I love this idea. So often these days I am too focused on what’s easy, what’s familiar, what’s going to get dinner on the table fastest....
Greetings from Lake George! I’m here for the week with Ben’s family: parents, brother, and son, Nathan. We’ve been swimming, fishing, and tubing, and it’s been a blast. Yesterday Ben’s mother, Carole, and I took a trip to Top’s, the local supermarket, to shop for dinner, but, inspired by a “Local Sweet Corn” sign, made a quick detour just upon entering Bolton Landing. We picked up corn, tomatoes, peaches, watermelon, garlic, cucumbers....
