Here’s a New Year’s resolution to embrace: Do less! That can mean many things, but it should especially mean doing fewer dishes. And what better way to stick to that goal than to cook more one-pot meals from New York Times Cooking? This is not permission to compromise on flavor; in fact you’ll find that…
LONDON — The quiet of January offers me a moment to look back at the weeks that came before and make heads or tails of them all. I am particularly interested in traditions: how they almost sneak up on us and surprise us, despite our misguided assumption that we are fully in control. And I…
Happy New Year-ish and welcome back to the workweek routine. Blessedly I spent the holidays with my in-laws, who cooked just about all of our meals and also fed my children. Such luxury! As a result, I returned to regular life having completely forgotten what my young kids will eat for dinner, aside from a…
Cooking a big pot of beef, beans and spices for hours may be one of the most traditional ways to make chili. But it’s not the only way, and it’s not what I’ve been doing lately as my beef consumption continues to plummet. To my mind, once you have all those beans and onions and…
Welcome to Clued In, a column that will give you insight into some of The New York Times Crossword clues and answers. ‘Italian cheese city,’ five letters: Parma. The word “Parma’‘ has been used in 65 New York Times crossword puzzles. It has been clued in several different ways, including “Toscanini’s birthplace” and “Cheese city.”…
When I was a vegetarian in high school, I got so sick of badly prepared portobello mushrooms! Watery stuffed portobellos, fibrous grilled portobellos, dry portobello sandwiches, spongy portobello salads. I avoided them for a while, not realizing just how good they could be. The portobello is a plain old brown mushroom, but harvested a little…
“I saw one collection that was in its entirety fake, and it had all been gathered 20 to 30 years ago,” she said. “There are some really well-known fakes that keep popping up.” Reliable statistics on the size of the problem are hard to come by. Ms. Graham-Yooll dismissed as hyperbolic a 2018 study claiming…
Also, maple-baked salmon if I can find some wild fish at the market. Kung pao chicken if I cannot. And definitely this amazing oat milk chocolate pudding, plush and sweet. I think it may be the best use of oat milk yet. There are thousands and thousands more recipes to choose waiting for you on…
SEARSMONT, Maine — Glendon Mehuren II’s Faithful Venture Farm, 35 miles east of the state capital of Augusta, looks as tranquil as the farms pictured on cartons of organic milk. Cows ramble among weathered barns perched on a hill surrounded by small pastures and woodlots. But things have been rough on the farm since August.…
My mother was convinced that baking genes skipped generations. After all, her mother was an excellent baker, she herself baked not at all and I baked all the time. I wish I’d known my grandmother as a baker, but I didn’t show interest in the craft early enough to learn at her elbow. I’ve got…