I cook for myself, and only myself (or one other person), A LOT. I think many others do, too. We solo (or duo) diners need downsized recipes that don’t require us to eat leftovers until they start to fuzz over with mold or perform complicated mathematical calculations just to make them.
Turmeric-Cauliflower Cream Soup
A half of a small head of cauliflower (found in the back of my fridge), some onion and garlic, a potato for creaminess and just the right amount of turmeric and…Presto! A rad [...]
Frisée Salad with Lardons
If you've had one, is there anything better than a salade frisée aux lardons – the French bistro classic that’s a tangle of frisée lettuce tossed with bacon (lardons), shallo [...]
Fresh Sole, Cancale-Style
Snooty foodie moment of the week: I caught myself wondering whether the sole I had in my fridge was fresh enough to eat. It was three days old. By three days old, I do not me [...]
Sautéed Escarole with Capers and Crispy Garlic
September is strange in Cancale this year. Instead of the glorious post-season weather I've grown to love more than summer, it has been chilly, blustery, wet—more like Novemb [...]
‘Simple, mais bon’ Summer Tomato Sauce
Simple, mais bon. Simple, but good. This may just be my new favorite food expression in France, because it beautifully, succinctly, and even poetically embraces the joy of un [...]
Savory French Toast Tartines
It has been a busy couple of weeks since I was last able to shop for food. Good-busy, with lots of eating out and seeing friends, but bad-busy in the sense that a lot of food [...]
Wild Garlic Spanish Tortilla
How can so few people in Brittany (or at least my part of Brittany) know about three-cornered leeks? Until my recent (as in, 2 minutes ago) internet search I’ve been calling [...]
Orecciette with Collard Stem Coins and Crispy Prosciutto
If I were giving this post the serious clickbait treatment, the tag line here would be, “Not cooking your kale stems? You’re missing out!” Or maybe: “The kale technique no on [...]
Red Pepper Soup with Crispy Chickpeas
Perhaps it is my straitened circumstances after losing my job when my longtime food editing gig ended in December. Perhaps it is the exorbitant prices I am paying for only h [...]
Cooking Laurie Colwin
"If you do not have insomnia, fussy eaters in your social orbit will give it to you." Laurie Colwin “Feeding the Fussy” Home Cooking Oh, how that line of Laurie Colwin’s spea [...]