The Anti-Deprivation Bowl
What to eat when everyone else is not eating some major food grouping in the name of reversing holiday-dining damage? A big bowl of nutritious comforts customized to what’s on hand and what’s striking the mood.
The Layered Look
We dress in layers at this time of year and there’s wisdom, not to mention waves of flavors, in cooking that way, too. A dish of cacio e pepe beans, pesto and roasted onions offers a blueprint for stylish simplicity.
Salted Cod in Brandade
When the fish that changed the world is reconstituted, whipped with potato and jazzed with roasted garlic, its comforts know no bounds. When the resulting spread is stuffed into roasted mini peppers, its fans span from single-digit to senior in age.
Chicken: It’s What’s for Dinner
Is there any aroma more heavenly in winter than that of a roasting bird? Only a bird that’s also been spatchcocked, smothered with a custom paste and set to drool over a stew of vegetables. Come and take a sniff of Kiera’s oven magic.
Chill Warm Shrimp
Bringing a lighter touch to suppers on these darker days doesn’t have to mean cutting back on anything – not flavor, not substance, not the spark of sunshine that citrus imbues.
Caviar, Casually
Fancy is fine, but does the fish roe that’s been called the Rolls-Royce of ingredients really need blini and puffy poufs?
Vegging Out Right Now
A year-round farmer asks a fundamental question – and then answers it with a wealth of ideas for wintertime cooking.
Baked Rice Bowl
A challenger to baked mac-and-cheese offers just as many customizing possibilities. It might even be easier and quicker to make.
Cran-Coco-Lime Cookies
Holiday cheer comes in a sweet package with accents of tart and hot, salty and sour. It’s the Cookie Supper you’re allowed to sneak in at least once this season.
Beans + Quinoa = Beanoa
Pronounced bean-whaa, but no matter how you mangle it, this powerhouse partnership is prime nutritional fuel. That you can deck the combo with a world of custom accents is even more reason to add it to your repertoire
Vegetable Pot Pie
It’s fit for a Thanksgiving potluck, adaptable to a variety of vegetables, right as a main course for guests who prefer plant-based foods and also suitable as a side for meat-eaters. It’s a heavenly savory pie.
To Spice, with Love (Part Two)
All-pro masalas and a novella-like cookery book are all you need to bring the magic of Barkha Cardoz’s flavors to your home kitchen.