
Squash and Ricotta Pizza with Sage and Arugula
Since I am limited in how many recipes I can reproduce on my site (go figure, it's like Molly wants to make money off her hard work and ingenuity or something) I'm going to just give you some guidelines on how to make this stupendous pizza. The dough is from Jim...
Off Topic: Crispy Pan-Fried Pork Chops
Tonight I made a dish from the November/December 2010 issue of Cook's Illustrated. As per usual, the fine people at Cook's have solved one of our nation's most urgent and intractable problems: poor coating adhesion on our pork chops. Turns out using a little...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Quick, Creamy, Mushroom-Spinach Lasagna
This was a delicious and easy lasagna although not much quicker than my usual. I've never used cream cheese in a lasagna before and I'm sure it will make purists sniff with disdain but hey, it works. I made the vegetarian version with mushrooms and spinach as well as...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Baby Spinach with Beets and Toasted Walnuts
I always forget that I like beets, and you should too (like them that is, not forget about them). They're sooooo delicious and I'm sure they're full of things like antioxidants, or probiotics, or carbon offsets or something beneficial. I'm giving you a highly...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Giant Linzer Cookie
I worried about this cookie at several points during its creation. It was liked a troubled child who manages to pull it all together at some point and ends up a fine, upstanding adult (I can relate). My first issue was that you are supposed to bake the two "cookies"...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Mocha Tartlets
Talk about bang for your buck. These are ridiculously simple and so very, very delicious. They require no baking and not only can they be made ahead but they must be made ahead. The recipe calls for assembling the tartlets in foil muffin cups but when I realized I...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Chicken Potpie
Yum yum yum. I made this and had my mom and her boyfriend, Rudy (my photography life-coach) over for dinner and everyone loved this dish. Special thanks to my neighbor, Jennifer, who saved me from having to make a THIRD trip to the store by hooking me up...