Recipes

No-cook cranberry orange relish

Lemon blueberry coffee cake with crumb topping

Egg, spinach and feta strata

Slow-cooked pulled pork carnitas

Simplest soy-glazed fish

Maple glazed sweet potatoes

Grilled flank steak with soy-honey marinade

Potato salad with lemon and fresh herbs

Grilled pineapple

Chocolate chip cookie cake

Everything muffins

Slow-cooked Italian beef

Foolproof mashed potatoes

Kale salad with honey-mustard peanut dressing

Pumpkin bread with chocolate

Comfort in pancakes (banana chocolate chip)

Sliced green bean and ground turkey stir fry

Eggs and zucchini in tomato sauce

Matterhorn macaroons (and a belated 6th blogiversary giveaway)

Corn and black bean salad with chipotle dressing

Rosemary roast pork loin

Ginger lemon honey mint tea

Ghetto guacamole

Chinese takeout chicken (less the grease/guilt)

One of the best meals to be had in New York City – and very often my first destination off the plane – is a $5 tray of steaming hot dumplings in Chinatown. Xiao long bao – pronunciation shao (rhymes with now) lohng (long O like tone) bow (as in take a bow) – aren’t…

Cozy warm and coconut-creamy, this Thai curry is a dish to fend off the chilly drab of January. Heavy on veg and lighter on protein, it fits that new year’s resolution to eat more healthfully. A comforting bowl to tuck into while you’re catching up on all the work you put off in December, it’s…

My mom always drew the raves for her barbecue chicken – tangy and sweet, salty and sticky, equal parts American and Asian – and indeed she spent years gradually perfecting the recipe. But it was my dad who worked the old brick fire pit in our backyard, tending to the coals like incubating eggs, now…