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After reading an article about what kids around the world eat for lunch , I was curious to try khichdi, a one-pot Indian comfort food made o...

This recipe is simple enough for a midweek dinner and delicious enough for a dinner party; it works well as leftovers to top a salad for tom...

I caught a cold last week and decided enough was enough—it was time to conquer chicken soup. Here's what resulted from a stubborn determ...

Sauteed Corn with Cilantro and Avocado Smoked Bacon and Mushroom Risotto   Black-Eyed Peas and Polenta Sa...

Spring is here, and with it comes green garlic, red spring onions, asparagus, and memories of our trip to Maui. Throw those together in a pa...

If you think of rice as a plain old staple—something to plop down on your plate as a generic staging ground for a hunk of chicke...

Let us say, for the sake of argument, that you are trapped in Tahoe. In a condo, overlooking the lake. With the sound of water lapping away ...

 Found in the garden: Sweet Italian heirloom peppers, tomatoes, flat-leaf parsley Found in the cupboard: Red Bhutanese rice, butter beans Fo...

This isn't the flashiest dish, looks-wise, but they say it's what's on the inside that counts. And oh, my, its insides are delic...

There are few things as simple, hearty, inexpensive, and roundly delicious as rice and beans. Here's one of our favorite versions yet. ...

Fish and I have a long and complicated history. Long ago, when I was young...last weekend, to be precise...I would have summarized our relat...

After experiencing a deeply inspired pumpkin pizza at Tuli Bistro a few weeks ago, we vowed to recreate it ourselves as a grilled flatbread...

The combination of rice and beans and whatever greens we have on hand tends to be my go-to meal when I haven't thought ahead about dinne...

Found in our produce box: Spineless nopales. Which seem on par with seedless watermelons, as culinary inventions go. Now if someone would on...

I'm not sure it's possible to go wrong with rice and beans, but this version turned out to be particularly addictive. I suspect addi...

I got home one night last week at 8pm, walked into the kitchen, and went to gaze half-heartedly into the fridge to find something not too ri...

Just when we thought our CSA box couldn't get any more interesting, we opened it today to find ten little quail eggs in a miniature egg ...

At some point last week, I decided it was about time to learn to soak my own beans. Now, if you've soaked beans before, you probably thi...

Ha! Take that, kale. I have cooked you, and you are delicious. As risottos go, this one is fairly simple to prepare (as in, there aren'...

There's nothing like 102 degree weather to make venturing outside long enough to restock on fresh produce seem like a crazy, over-zealou...