The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Wild Rice Gratin with Kale, Caramelized Onions, and Baby Swiss
Another incredibly good, deeply satisfying vegetarian main dish from Deb. You could absolutely use regular rice, brown rice, bulgur, quinoa, whatever you have five cooked cups of on hand but I really like the wild rice part of this. I think because I so seldom make...Cook’s Illustrated: Glazed Maple-Pecan Oatmeal Scones
Readers, I have to disabuse of something right now: living at my house is not like an endless and much less disturbing visit to the Wonka factory. Yes, wonderful things are made regularly BUT, more often than not, they are carried out the door to work or a party or...The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Heart-Stuffed Shells with Lemon Ricotta Bechamel
Sometimes I can’t believe how sexy my food looks. Damn, I’m good. And so were these. You know what they kind of tasted like? That artichoke-mayonnaise dip that everybody made for every party from 1997 through late 2000, remember that stuff? It also had...

Two adults eating 1 pound of meat is wild.