This is a simple salad that has summer written all over it. Watermelon and strawberries--find fresh local ones if you can--are the perfec...

I often cook chicken for salads by pan frying chicken breast cutlets--those chicken breasts that have been sliced in half, making them ea...

Pho, the popular Vietnamese noodle soup made with beef, a spiced broth and fresh garnishes is wonderful but also wonderfully filling. Som...

If I was going to do one of those blogs where you cook every recipe in one cookbook, I'd probably choose Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins...

Roasted chickpeas are a wonderful thing. The little round legumes, when tossed with olive oil and cooked in the oven until their edges d...

"...the magazine equivalent of throwing an M-80 into a bowl of ramen and taking a crime-scene photo of the results." That'...

If you're like me and millions of other East Coast dwellers this weekend, you're snowed in. Restaurants, if you can walk to them,...

The roasted even smoky flavor of freekeh, a Middle-Eastern roasted wheat grain, is a wonderful match for late fall as the weather cools a...

Do you find it a struggle to eat healthy? It can be difficult, especially if you do a lot of traveling. Fresh fruit and vegetables can se...

Today is Labor Day, which is the unofficial "end of summer." But technically, it's still summer for another couple weeks, a...

As a kid, I loved clam chowder, and it's still one of my favorites. It's a wonderfully creamy soup flavored with the briny clams,...

 Pretty much any American child knows that cherries grow on trees. After all, besides after 1) being the first U.S. president, 2) leading...

If you live in Washington, D.C., I hope you've gotten to try Beefsteak , José Andrés' vegetable-focused fast-casual restaurant lo...

It's almost summertime, the season of picnics, cookouts and family get togethers. In some ways, that season began Memorial Day weeken...

This colorful spring salad is all about contrast, both in flavor and texture. It mingles smoky chewy bacon with crisp raw sugar snap peas...

Caesar salad freshly made with quality ingredients has been making a comeback lately. There's no excuse for the mass-produced style w...

The approach to this salad was inspired by my recent lunch at Beefsteak . The star ingredient is the sugar snap peas, which I boiled brie...