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For the Pinteresty time of year: Applesauce spice cake
Every grill has its day: Chopped barbecue chicken salad
Sundays and sunshine: Lemon donut muffins
Easy breezy summer salad: Avoca roasted peppers and chickpeas
Three-ingredient strawberry sorbet
For diners big and small: Tomato mac & cheese
Strawberry tarts forever
A reason for messes: 10-minute strawberry jam
Cinco de Mayo: Vegetarian enchiladas
Forget the French fries: Salt and vinegar potatoes
Fit for Santa’s team: Rudolph loves cookies
The easiest snack you’ll ever make: Salted honey butter popcorn
Tales from a 40-year-old plant: Rhubarb raspberry jam
Factory-made — at home: Louisiana Chicken Pasta
Roasted carrots: Simple? Yes. Delicious? Definitely.
Easy Weeknight Dinners
It’s Salad for Dinner! Warm Chicken Salad with Roasted Potatoes and Chives
Snow Day Prep! Linguine with Lemon, Garlic and Thyme Mushrooms
Easy Weeknight Dinners: Black Bean, Corn and Tomato Tacos
Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère
Comfort food to calm the chill: Fettuccine with garlic cream sauce and sautéed tomatoes
The missing zing: Balsamic-glazed penne with roasted asparagus
Out of the rut: Barley risotto with spinach and sweet potatoes
Cooking off the Cuff: A Makeshift Pasta Fresca
Easy (and lovely!) Asparagus Gruyere Tart
For the love of tinkering: Easy spinach enchiladas
A dinner shortcut — so good I feel guilty!
I’ll take the whole enchilada
Let them eat pasta
Vegetarian
Snow Day Prep! Linguine with Lemon, Garlic and Thyme Mushrooms
Easy Weeknight Dinners: Black Bean, Corn and Tomato Tacos
Comfort food to calm the chill: Fettuccine with garlic cream sauce and sautéed tomatoes
Easy breezy summer salad: Avoca roasted peppers and chickpeas
For diners big and small: Tomato mac & cheese
Cinco de Mayo: Vegetarian enchiladas
The missing zing: Balsamic-glazed penne with roasted asparagus
Out of the rut: Barley risotto with spinach and sweet potatoes
Spring, salad and photo shoots
Forget the French fries: Salt and vinegar potatoes
A cure for what ails you: Roasted vegetable soup
Chilly weather means chili weather
Cooking off the Cuff: A Makeshift Pasta Fresca
Food for a fairy tale: Wheatberry salad
Easy (and lovely!) Asparagus Gruyere Tart
Pretty on Pinterest = yummy in the tummy
Go ahead, bake some love
For the love of tinkering: Easy spinach enchiladas
It’s flying from the stovetop! But it’s the prettiest of soups.
End-of-summer pizza
Don’t tease the underdog: Fettuccine with eggplant
You’re never too old for mac and cheese
Horseradish, I think we can be friends now.
Hi ho, asparagus! ‘Tis the season
Amber’s Magic Salad
Roasted carrots: Simple? Yes. Delicious? Definitely.
Back to basics: Dill fingerling potatoes
Vegetable Week: It’s like Shark Week, but healthier
Project NYT: Garden minestrone
Winterizing summer favorites: Spanish roasted potato salad
Eat your vegetables
Let them eat pasta
Breakfast
Stop and Smell the Pancakes
Holiday Baking: Make-Ahead Cherry Scones
Worth the Effort: Pain Aux Raisins
Fit for a Fairy: Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Dessert Fix: 20-Minute Apple Turnovers
Don’t get hangry: How to build the perfect breakfast tacos
Sundays and sunshine: Lemon donut muffins
Eat like a monkey: Ginger(monkey)bread
Fall in New England: Apples, waffles and a hooray for new seasons
Of markets and merriment: Vintage breakfast puffs
Timers? Sweets? Huzzah! Sour cherry maple muffins
A tale of time and taste: Sour cherry cream cheese coffee cake
Like living in a pancake: Maple yogurt pound cake
Pretty in pictures, lovely in words: Orange and cranberry fairy buns
Are we pastry, or are we baked good? Strawberry banana muffins
Rise of the Monday: Asparagus and egg bake
We will be morning people: Cinnamon pumpkin oatmeal
Voice for the misunderstood: Prune coffee cake
Recipes for naptime: Lemon vanilla bean muffins
Lessons from a do-over: Banana tea muffins
Call it a blueberry morning
And the baking returns! Cranberry orange scones
Do you like green, eggs and ham?
The Breakfast Club: Pumpkin waffles
Once upon a time, three apples found their destiny
Hi, old friend: Pumpkin scones
Watch out, Pillsbury. I’m going old school.
A belated bit of British business: Blueberry scones
Project NYT: Old South Buttermilk Biscuits
Ina, which came first: the chicken or the egg?
French toast for one
Project NYT: Maida Heatter’s preheated-oven popovers
You’re welcome, houseguest: Butternut sage scones
Project NYT: Spiced pumpkin oatmeal
Minimal ingredients, maximum results
Cookies, Bars and Candy
Baking for Bear: Gluten-free peanut butter cookies
Mint Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
Beany’s Goodnight (Funfetti) Cookies!
Sweets in the snow: Cocoa brownies with sea salt
Beany vs. the Boxed Cookie: A Quest for Homemade Fig Newtons
Salad for lunch, cookies for dinner: Peanut butter chocolate chip biscuits
Salty, sweet, gone: Chocolate-pistachio sables
Taste of sunshine: Lemon sandwich cookies
Delicious endings: Easy chocolate sugar cookies
Birthdays and Banana Blondies
Fun and fancy’s not free: Cardamom and currant snickerdoodles
Admiration and emails — and lemon cream cheese cookies
Life without a microwave: Brown butter Rice Krispies treats
Poetry and cookies: Sweet citrus shortbread
Minding our Ps and Qs: Ricotta Lemon Bars
The house where Gretel lives: Peanut butter marshmallow sandwich cookies
Fit for Santa’s team: Rudolph loves cookies
Now, that’s neighborly: Simple homemade peppermint bark
It’s time to meet the blondies
Pumpkin picking and the punkin’ snaps reboot
An experiment in fall flavor fusion: Punkin’ snaps
For when the moon is blue: Chewy chocolate brownies
The cookie was calling me
Lemon, for you, I’ll bake
Sweet reflections and hopeful cookies
Meet me at The Nola Bar
Who are you, peanut butter cookie? Who are you?
Dessert that’s fit for a king. Or queen. Or anyone who’s keen on crowns.
The food blogging conundrum: Saving room for favorites
The happiest cookies you’ll ever make
We moved. All is well. I’m baking again.
Because there’s always more rhubarb to love
It’s pumpkin time — again
Project NYT: Lemon sablés — everyone needs some sparkle
Project NYT: Lemon bars
Dessert fix: Molasses cookies
Project NYT: Chocolate quakes
Granola + Cookie = Love
Project NYT: Flat-and-chewy chocolate chip cookies
Project NYT: Brown sugar shortbread
Sometimes love is sweet: Valentine linzer cookies
Project NYT: Spice krinkles
Project NYT: Baking from honey-dipped memories
Project NYT: Nostalgia and the 67-year-old brownie
Project NYT: Oatmeal, meet Cookie. Om, nom, nom.
Another day, another cookie (salted double chocolate peanut butter)
Ode to a cookie: Recipe for a masterpiece
Forget long distance; I’m switching to spritz.
Cookiepalooza 2010
No tricks, just treats
Casper meets chocolate
Muffins/Cakes/Custards
Fit for a Fairy: Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
For the Pinteresty time of year: Applesauce spice cake
Simple moments: Angel food cake with strawberries and cream
Sundays and sunshine: Lemon donut muffins
The world according to Beany: Chocolate banana muffins
Happy Easter! Lemon Ginger Bundt Cake
Eat like a monkey: Ginger(monkey)bread
Of markets and merriment: Vintage breakfast puffs
Timers? Sweets? Huzzah! Sour cherry maple muffins
A tale of time and taste: Sour cherry cream cheese coffee cake
Like living in a pancake: Maple yogurt pound cake
Pretty in pictures, lovely in words: Orange and cranberry fairy buns
Are we pastry, or are we baked good? Strawberry banana muffins
The princess and the baked good
Voice for the misunderstood: Prune coffee cake
Let’s go camping: S’mores cupcakes and a campfire baby shower
Recipes for naptime: Lemon vanilla bean muffins
Every blackberry has its day
Delicious muffins and other weighty matters
Lessons from a do-over: Banana tea muffins
It’s the Great Pumpkin Muffin, Charlie Brown!
It’s not easy being cheesy
Dear Ms. Witch. Your house smells good: Gingerbread cake
Rising against the elements: Homemade cream puffs
Pretty desserts can be trusted: Raspberry custard cups
It’s OK to be a picky eater
A cupcake for any occasion
Project NYT: Sugared puffs
Peach torte: It’s peachy keen.
Blueberry muffins go strawberry
Project NYT: Lemon cake
Project NYT: Jordan Marsh’s Blueberry muffins
Project NYT: Peanut butter cupcakes
Zucchini, meet Bread
What’s up, doc? Whole-wheat carrot cake muffins
Project NYT: Purple plum torte
Pumpkin muffin experiment
Delicious distractions
Feeling cold, tasting spring: Lemon olive oil cake
Project NYT: Molasses cupcakes with lemon icing
Fresh baked snow day
Project NYT: Apple coffee cake
Minimal ingredients, maximum results
Do you know the muffin (wo)man? Yep, that’s me.
If monkeys could bake…
Pies and Tarts
Farm, Family and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Dessert Fix: 20-Minute Apple Turnovers
Tarts are for dreamers: Blueberry nectarine tarts
Once-a-year twice-baked cherry pie
Strawberry tarts forever
Simplicity and flavor: Tiny maple cream tarts
French apple tartlettes? Bon appétit!
Easy (and lovely!) Asparagus Gruyere Tart
Go ahead, bake some love
The best things in life are sweet
Remembered Recipes
Project NYT: Blueberry Pie with Lattice Top
Frozen Desserts
It’s popsicle time! Blueberry lemon pops
Three-ingredient strawberry sorbet
Cup of Joe — à la mode, please
Time for a little chocolate fix
Project NYT: Mr. Wonka, this one’s for you
When life gives you limes, make ice cream
Project NYT: Strawberry ice cream forever
Jams and Jellies
A reason for messes: 10-minute strawberry jam
Tales from a 40-year-old plant: Rhubarb raspberry jam
No bake? No problem.
Pasta/Rice/Grains
Summer Market Risotto
Snow Day Prep! Linguine with Lemon, Garlic and Thyme Mushrooms
Comfort food to calm the chill: Fettuccine with garlic cream sauce and sautéed tomatoes
For diners big and small: Tomato mac & cheese
The missing zing: Balsamic-glazed penne with roasted asparagus
Out of the rut: Barley risotto with spinach and sweet potatoes
Spring, salad and photo shoots
Cooking off the Cuff: A Makeshift Pasta Fresca
Food for a fairy tale: Wheatberry salad
Fine dining à la home: Mushroom and spinach risotto
A dinner shortcut — so good I feel guilty!
Pasta + cheese = comfort
Don’t tease the underdog: Fettuccine with eggplant
Factory-made — at home: Louisiana Chicken Pasta
You’re never too old for mac and cheese
Hi ho, asparagus! ‘Tis the season
It’s the lazy (wo)man’s risotto: Creamy orzo
Happy day food: Lemon spaghetti, a la Giada
Good things take time: Butternut squash risotto
Let them eat pasta
Bread
Worth the Effort: Pain Aux Raisins
Becoming Bread Makers: Awesome Everyday Bread
Challah, you’re the flavor I was missing
We’re Southern now, y’all. And we’re cooking up cornbread.
Irish brown soda bread
Pizza/Sandwiches
Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère
Worth a second chance: The meatball sandwich
Pretty on Pinterest = yummy in the tummy
End-of-summer pizza
Project NYT: Rollin’ in dough
Salads
It’s Salad for Dinner! Warm Chicken Salad with Roasted Potatoes and Chives
Every grill has its day: Chopped barbecue chicken salad
Easy breezy summer salad: Avoca roasted peppers and chickpeas
Spring, salad and photo shoots
Food for a fairy tale: Wheatberry salad
Horseradish, I think we can be friends now.
Hi ho, asparagus! ‘Tis the season
Amber’s Magic Salad
Project NYT: Mark Bittman’s Real Ranch Dressing
Winterizing summer favorites: Spanish roasted potato salad
Soups/Stews/Chili
A cure for what ails you: Roasted vegetable soup
Chilly weather means chili weather
Chicken stoup for the snow-lovin’ soul
It’s flying from the stovetop! But it’s the prettiest of soups.
Pasta and bean soup with kale
Project NYT: Garden minestrone
Project NYT: What’s up, Butternut?
Project NYT: Lentil ginger soup
Appetizers/Sides
Summer Market Risotto
Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère
Forget the French fries: Salt and vinegar potatoes
On top of spaghetti: Fast and easy meatballs
Easy (and lovely!) Asparagus Gruyere Tart
Pretty on Pinterest = yummy in the tummy
Go ahead, bake some love
Horseradish, I think we can be friends now.
Roasted carrots: Simple? Yes. Delicious? Definitely.
Back to basics: Dill fingerling potatoes
Vegetable Week: It’s like Shark Week, but healthier
Project NYT: Parmesan crackers, no boxes allowed
Winterizing summer favorites: Spanish roasted potato salad
No bake? No problem.
Eat your vegetables
We might be giants
Meat/Eggs
Don’t get hangry: How to build the perfect breakfast tacos
Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère
Every grill has its day: Chopped barbecue chicken salad
Rise of the Monday: Asparagus and egg bake
Worth a second chance: The meatball sandwich
On top of spaghetti: Fast and easy meatballs
Chicken stoup for the snow-lovin’ soul
Do you like green, eggs and ham?
I’ll take the whole enchilada
Factory-made — at home: Louisiana Chicken Pasta
I made meatloaf. Call in the parade!
Ina knows her chicken. My chicken. All chicken.