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One-Pan Pasta
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
I am here to tell you about a recipe for pasta that you cook in one pan. One pan, people! Dried noodles, sauce ingredients, water—they all get thrown into a big pan and boiled for less than 10 minutes. You…
Saffron Pasta with Spiced Butter
Friday, February 14, 2014
I can’t see a pasta maker without thinking of this one painting by John Currin. The painting is of two guys, presumably a couple, making pasta together. It’s not a painting that I particularly like, but it is a painting…
Tomato Pasta
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
I know it sometimes seems like I don’t eat dinner. I do, it just usually isn’t that interesting. I do what most of you probably do for dinner: throw together a sandwich, a salad, some pasta—pretty basic stuff. I save…
Pasta Night
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Between work, travel, and house guests, I haven’t been in the kitchen as much as usual. I did, however, make this pasta which has become one of our favorite dishes as well as one of the most frequently cooked meals…
Eating in London
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
We recently returned from three weeks in England. We spent a week in Somerset and the Cotswolds, but the bulk of the time was spent in London. It was a dream trip with origins in a week-long trip we had…
L + D Gift Guide 2022: Special Guest Edition
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
This year, in an unprecedented move on my part, I decided to ask other people to contribute to a second, bonus gift guide. This was mostly very selfish. Because my gift guide is always stuff I already have, it doesn’t…
Roasted Eggplant and Za’atar Lasagna
Monday, March 26, 2018
I already have two perfect lasagnas in my life. Ina’s turkey lasagna, which I wooed Bryan with, and Julia’s Nice Lasagna, which I could eat forever and never get tired of. But I was flipping through Nancy Silverton’s Mozza At…
Victories, Large and Small
Monday, September 12, 2016
I hope that Julia Turshen is the future of home cooking. There are a few voices in the crowd of people talking about food that are worth listening to–Julia’s is one of those voices. I would describe her, in lazy…
Torta della Nonna
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
A friend recently posted this article on Facebook that addressed the difficulties of Christmas gift giving between adults, which is something Bryan and I have been discussing a lot. As people who are celebrating the secular side of Christmas, we’re…
L + D Guide to Madison, Wisconsin
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
I spend a lot of time trying to convince people in Chicago that Madison, Wisconsin is one of the coolest cities in the country. I get a lot of blank stares or condescending smiles. But if you’ve been there, you…