The Best Sweet-Savory Kugel

And Sarah DiGregorio ginned up an amazing lentil soup with smoked sausage and apples. That’s an easy and fantastic midweek feed. You might, however, prefer Julia Moskin’s recipe for pasta with bacon, cheese, lemon and pine nuts. Or, you know what? Sometimes life calls for baked chicken tenders and a soapy police drama on your…

Pekarna Opens, Featuring the Cuisine of Slovenia

Headliner Pekarna This spacious new Upper West Side restaurant eventually intends to feature the food of Slovenia, with dishes like brodet, a kind of fisherman’s stew, Bohemian squash and mushrooms, and kremsnita, a creamy, custardy cake. For now, while the restaurant waits for gas for cooking, it’s more generally American and European. Though the chef,…

Reserve a Cookie Box From Some Culinary Darlings

This cookie assortment — from Resy, the restaurant reservation platform, and Ovenly, the Brooklyn-based baker — has a dozen cookies made from recipes by chefs like Missy Robbins, Alice Waters, Enrique Olvera, Jeremy Fox and Nina Compton. The selection, available through this month, includes a winter spiced sweet potato cookie, lemon fennel shortbread, chocolate chip…

My, What a Sneaky Little Flour

It’s nothing like spinach in the mashed potatoes. Adding a boost of fiber to home-baked goods, even sugary holiday treats, is easy with a new all-purpose flour. Flourish — made from a strain of white wheat, with a naturally high fiber content, grown by farmers in various locations and processed by Bay State Milling —…

This Cookbook Raises Money for the Ballet

Even the dancers and other staff from the American Ballet Theater have been spending time cooking during the pandemic. The result is a digital cookbook with 65 recipes, including delectables like tarte au citron from Emily Hayes in the corps de ballet, and pirouette pumpkin muffins from Kara Medoff Barnett, the executive director. Among the…

Panettone, Fresh From Italy

Back in 1882, when Olivieri, a bakery in Arzignano, Italy, near Vicenza in the Veneto region, started producing panettone you can be sure that it did not make an apricot and salted caramel flavor. But Nicola Olivieri, a sixth-generation baker in the baking family, is doing just that, along with other flavors, for his luxurious…