Recently I noticed paella made with pasta instead of rice at a Catalonian restaurant in Miami. The chef told me it's a centuries-old dish from the Mediterranean areas of...
Keep the crisp, lose the labor
Come Super Bowl Sunday, we all love a heaping platter of wings. They've got to be crunchy. They've got to be a little bit greasy. They've ...
Winter's chilly, gray days make the days of summer's colorful garden-fresh produce seem so very long ago. But you still can get your vegetable fix from hardy winter gree...
The French love to cook fish by poaching it in a flavored liquid, usually a combination of white wine and water, leeks or onions, and some herbs. It's a notably lean way...
The United Nations declared 2016 as the International Year of Pulses. That's beans, aka legumes, to you and me. They're a great investment: cheap, sustainable, pantry-fr...
Alice was our au pair from China, and when she joined our family she brought with her a slew of tasty dishes.
Our family fell in love with her complex fried rice, dumpli...
I loved every bite of the holidays and I'm not going to look back with regret.
I am, however, not going to continue eating this way indefinitely. And this salad is why I...
The first time I ate spicy, red chorizo sausage was at a Cuban friend's house many years ago. I loved the small, crisp slices of chorizo nestled among the shrimp, chicke...
Eggs for dinner! Talk about serious comfort food. And one of my favorite weeknight ways to prepare them is as frittatas.
A frittata is an Italian omelet, but one in whic...
The best New Year's Eve party I ever attended was a progressive graze of one appetizer after another all evening. When a dish came off the grill or out of the oven, we n...
