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This one-pot meal marries risotto magic with a good-for-you grain

A warm and slithery slurp of minestrone is all well and good, but I’m even more partial to the next-day thickening that occurs when the soup’s pasta or grains have been refrigerated in tomat...

DATE: Nov 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

There’s a tangy sharpness to this chicken, yet no knife is required

There are plenty of people who cannot get behind the “Zen” of kitchen prep work, and I can understand that even those who do find the chopping somewhat meditative would be hard-pressed to fe...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Hooray for queso, especially when it’s draped over tacos

That Soft Cheese Tacos are an item, a Dallas specialty, had escaped me until I read about them in Lisa Fain’s upcoming cookbook, Queso! Regional Recipes for the World’s Favorite Chile-Cheese...

DATE: Sep 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

An easy omelet for dinner, made sweeter with figs

My neighbors’ offer of plump, purple-blush figs from their tree sent me searching for savory ways to use them. Devotees of the lush fruit know its late-summer/early-fall season is upon us, a...

DATE: Sep 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

It’s August, and you haven’t grilled a tuna steak? Here you go.

You can forget how meaty and moist a half-inch-thick tuna steak can be - right up until you bite into one. It makes a fine summer meal. Here, a 20-minute marinade of garlic, basil, lemon jui...

DATE: Aug 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

There is comfort in a warm bowl on a hot day

It’s convection-oven hot outside, yet I am craving a warm bowl of soup. That might have something to do with how I began eating in 2017, during a month-long staff challenge. (I followed a so...

DATE: Aug 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Bake chicken and peaches together, and they make their own sauce

An interesting thing happened on the way to delivering this recipe. It’s a one-pan dish that fuses a few spices and brown sugar with ripe peaches and that old weeknight standby – boneless, s...

DATE: Jul 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

These enchiladas don’t require oven time

When you happen upon a recipe ingredient list that is divided into subcategories, do you turn the page or simply hit next? For-the-this, for-the-that often involve processes that may overmat...

DATE: Jun 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

An old favorite returns to the rotation with a leaner look

Curried Singapore Noodles was my standard order at a restaurant in Washington’s Chinatown – until it wasn’t. That kitchen’s particular proportions of curried sauce, rice noodles, vegetables,...

DATE: May 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Eats like a pizza but takes less time to make and bake

Pizza-type meals are easy to pull together on a weeknight, as long as you plan ahead for dough or keep the store-bought, refrigerated bags of it in stock. But this recipe from John Whaite’s ...

DATE: May 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Quick to make, fun to eat: Chinese lettuce wraps will never go out of style

Here’s a meal that works for a household full of folks on different schedules. Stir-fry the ginger-and-garlic-flavored mushrooms and ground pork whenever you’ve got a quorum for dinner. It h...

DATE: Apr 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Easter lamb, ham, scaled to suit

The Easter table’s main attractions – lamb by the leg, ham bigger than a diver’s helmet – are built to feed a crowd. But options for a modest holiday gathering can be rustled up more easily ...

DATE: Apr 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food