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Grilled tomato-basil chicken.
We’re just back from a long weekend in Florida, where we enjoyed the sunny weather and played golf (poorly). We returned to a Florida-like climate here in Cincinnati, as temps yesterday hit the...
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French picnic salad in a jar.
Can I just gush for a moment about How. Much. I. Love. This.? A beautiful layered salad in a jar (I used a Weck .5L Mold jar), perfect for transporting to a picnic or, less romantically, to the office....
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Comfort food, Mexican-style.
I’ll take a break from sharing my best holiday cookie recipes to post about one of my new favorite dinners: chilaquiles. It’s a traditional Mexican recipe, designed to use up leftovers (tortillas,...
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The Clara Project: old-fashioned meatloaf, updated.
Thumbing through the collection of vintage recipe cards that inspired The Clara Project, one thing is striking: the comparatively small number of recipes for main dishes. Most of the recipes are...
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Fabulous wild rice salad with chicken.
I know: Salad for dinner. It just sounds so, I dunno, uninspiring. But I love a really hearty salad for dinner—one that’s full of flavor, texture (um, and maybe a bit of cheese) along with greens and...
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Beautiful salade lyonnaise.
What is salade lyonnaise, you ask? It’s a classic French bistro salad, a very simple combination of frisée, bacon, egg and a mustardy dressing. What’s interesting about it—aside from its, you know,...
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Lunchbox salad with chicken, carrot and fennel.
Those who know me best know that I appreciate need a good lunch. A rotten mid-day meal (which occasionally happens when I’m time-pressed and just grab whatever is convenient) can send me into a...
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Beautiful French salad in a jar.
Can I just gush for a moment about How. Much. I. Love. This.? A beautiful layered salad in a jar (I used a Weck .5L Mold jar), perfect for transporting to a picnic or, less romantically, to the office....
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In praise of: the chop salad.
Recently, we had occasion to dine at Bluebeard in Indianapolis — a great farm-to-table restaurant with a terrific vibe in an up-and-coming neighborhood south of downtown. Of all the yummy things we ate...
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Pizza with prosciutto, fontina and arugula.
There’s a popular food-related parlor game that, depending on which variation you’re playing, requires you to identify the one dish you’d either 1) want if you were stranded on a desert island or 2)...
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Pasta with bacon, kale and Fontina.
I’ve long been a fan of Swiss chard; it grows beautifully (and easily) in my small backyard garden. I love its bright, almost citrus-y flavor and the way it pairs so beautifully with non-leafy...
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Jambalaya-style risotto.
Not just because it’s Mardi Gras time—when all Cajun and Creole foods come into high fashion—but also because it’s so darn cold: Jambalaya is precisely the dish you want for dinner this week. Hearty,...
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The Clara Project: A new take on old-fashioned meatloaf.
I suppose you can divide people into groups any way you want: Democrats or Republicans, East Siders or West Siders, UC fans or Xavier fans, meatloaf fans or non-meatloaf fans. I, for one, am a meatloaf...
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Bacon black pepper cheddar sticks.
As you become a more experienced cook, you become a more confident cook. You learn that it’s OK to substitute ingredients for what you happen to have on hand or to accommodate your family’s likes and...
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Summery zucchini, bacon and ricotta pie.
I’m hooked on turning summer’s fresh vegetables into savory pies (I suppose there are worse vices). Think quiche—only packed with tons more vegetables and lighter on the eggy richness (and calories). I...
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Easy butter-roasted chicken.
‘Roast chicken.’ The words just sort of take you to Grandma’s kitchen, don’t they? And yet, why do we make roast chicken so infrequently? It’s one of the simplest, most satisfying dishes, and you...
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Beautiful salad with roast chicken, apple and pecans.
Sometime forever ago, when a) we still received Williams-Sonoma catalogs practically every week, and b) said catalogs included lovely recipes, I clipped out a recipe for chicken salad with fennel, bell...
View ArticleSmashed potato salad with bacon and herbs.
This potato salad with bacon and fresh herbs meets my very particular criteria for potato salad. No eggs, no pickle relish, no celery. Get the recipe. Continue reading →
View ArticleBGT salad: bacon, goat cheese and tomato.
Here's a new take on the ubiquitous summer tomato salad with ... wait for it ... BACON. Even better: a warm dressing of bacon drippings (let's call it what it is, people: bacon FAT) and balsamic...
View ArticleBeautiful roast chicken salad in a jar.
This recipe is an old favorite, clipped from a Williams-Sonoma catalog a bajillion years ago. We've made it for dinner a number of times, and then I hacked it as a salad-in-a-jar, which is perfectly...
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