Recipes

Chicken Marbella revival

Christmas colcannon

Cornbread stuffing with sausage and apples

Persimmon bread

Orecchiette with sausage, fennel and tomato

Lemon cake with lemon buttercream

Roasted tomatoes

Kettle corn

Quinoa with sweet potatoes, red pepper and feta

Tsukune (teriyaki meatballs)

Broccoli salad with Greek yogurt, cranberries and almonds

Spinach dip (without the mix)

Roasted potatoes with garlic and lemon

Turkey chili with zucchini and corn

New potato and asparagus salad with lemon-dijon dressing

Stovetop asparagus

Unplugging for a week (and roasted butternut squash)

Maple vanilla Greek yogurt

Hurricane popcorn

Kung pao (gong bao) shrimp

Ritzy chicken fingers

Chinese steamed sponge cake (ji dan gao)

Ham and cabbage soup

Northstar Café salad

My favorite easy fish preparation is also a perfect January recipe. It ticks all the new years resolution boxes: Cook at home! Be healthier! Eat more fish! Lose weight! My husband swears he always loses weight after we have fish for dinner, even if he’s stuffed after the meal. We all know fish is great…

One recipe, two ideas here: First, that you can use ground turkey in a stir fry. Second, that when you have older, thicker green beans, you can transform them by cutting steep diagonal slices that will absorb a fantastic amount of flavor. My mom has made green beans like this for years, so it always…

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…