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Pesto usually leaves me feeling a little... blah.  I like it on a sandwich or as the sauce on a pizza, but there has to be more stuff goi...

For some reason on our last trip to Cost Co I decided to pick up a can of jumbo crab.  I say "for some reason" because I am not...

We got the idea for this pasta as a combination of two recipes that I found on Epicurious - Farfalle with Golden Beets, Beet Greens and P...

I love fresh ricotta.  And the fresh ricotta we have in the fridge has been begging for another use.  I had various ideas about what t...

First things first - I have some friends to thank for this recipe.  I didn't find this recipe on my own.  Usually I am in charge o...

I know I mentioned Alex's challenge to make a week's worth of original recipes months ago.  And I also know that we're midw...

Sorry everyone.  I know I have been a little delinquent.  Again.  But in my defense, last week was a very busy week at work (although we ...

  As you can see, there has been something of a blog post backlog of late.  I only managed a paltry 11 posts in December (which I belie...

This dish was one that Alex pulled out of a hat (or off the internet) a few nights ago for dinner.  We had been planning on making some...

I wasn't going to post about this recipe because I didn't think it was particularly successful, but Alex told me that I should ...

After New Hampshire I craved salad - big mounts of leafy greens topped with all sorts of delicious things.  Alex craved soup with a bunc...

I must admit that I am not a very inventive vegetarian cook.  When I start thinking about making a vegetarian entree the first thing tha...

Lasagna is not something that I make very often.  It is just far too time consuming.  I think I have only made two lasagnas in all of th...

So I was blog-stalking awhile ago (I think it was last summer, which is kind of amazing and depressing all at the same time) and f...

Prior to seeing this recipe by Mario Batali in Bon Appetit , I had never heard of a sun gold tomato and I was fairly certain that it wo...

After a weekend of dining out at restaurants, it was nice to have something homemade and on the lighter side.  The corn and the squash ...

Last weekend when Alex and I went to Chelsea Market we ended up buying a little thing of tuna bottarga (Italian dried tuna or mullet ...

To take advantage of the fresh pasta we picked up today from Eataly I decided to make a recipe from one of my Batali cookbooks that I h...

Somehow the vegetarian meals we put together often end up being pasta.  And this meal is no exception.  I got the idea for a pea ravioli...

I know this meal sounds totally lame.  Pasta with Lentils and Kale?  I mean really?  But I promise it's good.  Yes, I did pick it b...