Rebekah Peppler’s frites from À Table.

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Air fryer asparagus with miso butter and a slow-poached egg, as inspired by Momofuku.

There’s something deeply satisfying about learning to love a new food, like you’ve leveled up in a game and you’ve opened a whole new world of games to play. For years I’ve tried to like asparagus, but I never could figure out a way that I could find it palatable–roasting the asparagus didn’t seem to…

Gail Simmons’s jerk shrimp from Bringing it Home, but make it lettuce cups.

The mark of a good cookbook to me is how much I use it, and I use Gail’s Bringing it Home a lot. I love how much it covers, from breakfast and brunch to fun party snacks and noodle dishes, and I also love how conversational the headnotes that precede each recipe. It’s easy to…

Pork cutlets fra diavolo inspired by Michael Solomonov and Israeli Soul.

One of my go-to, “oh shit I need a protein to go with pasta” dishes that I turn to time and time again is the cutlet, either with chicken or pork. Sometimes we’ll have them as our first course because the pasta dish I’m making is more extensive, or we’ll have them standing by to…

Sheldon Simeon’s lomi salmon from Cook Real Hawai’i.

Months ago now, I had the rather brilliant idea of going on a walk over to Whole Foods on a weekly basis in order to get fresh fish and vegetables in order to make ceviche. I thought that this would be a really fun way to eat more fish and get some good walking in,…

Making holiday cheer in the form of home-infused liqueurs with the help of America’s Test Kitchen’s lavender liqueur.

(Note: America’s Test kitchen sent me their The Complete Autumn & Winter Cookbook for review purposes, though all opinions are my own.) As I write this, we’re less than two weeks from Christmas and less than three from the New Year, and thanks to our vaccines and boosters, gathering for the holidays is once again…

Giada De Laurentiis’ pepperoncini shrimp.

With Halloween long over and November in full swing, it seems like everyone I know is either thinking about “stuffing season” or is already breaking out the holiday décor. Honestly, if you’re in the latter camp, I can’t say I blame you–it’s been a tough last two years, and if seeing some twinkly lights or…

Celery root soup with apples and Hawaji from the Zahav cookbook.

Now that it is unmistakably fall, I’m trying to deal with it by embracing autumnal dishes, including soups. Michael isn’t the biggest fan of soup, but I’ve made inroads with him thanks to how refreshing gazpacho is during the summer. That said, when it comes to cold-weather soups, I need to show him something compelling…

Two Basque Country cocktails for the waning days of summer: Basque sangría (Zurracapote) and red wine-cola cocktail (Kalimotxo).

With August coming to a close, I realized recently that I had yet to make a batch of sangría at all this spring or summer, which is very out of character for me and something I had to rectify immediately. Our building was having a get-together–the first that we’ve had in probably two years now–and…

Frozen pea soup from José Andrés’ Vegetables Unleashed.

As I write this, spring is coming to a close but you would be forgiven for thinking it’s already summer by how hot it is in various parts of the country. Hot weather always makes me want to eat raw fish or fish that’s been cooked in acid and sip on cold soups. While gazpachos…