Mmm…carbs. I refuse to categorize them as good (complex…like those whole grains everyone’s always telling you to eat these days) or bad (simple…like pasta and couscous) because they’re all pretty wonderful.
Single-Rise Moroccan Bread
This is the homemade bread recipe for people (like me) who don’t just *love* bread baking. It is easy. It exceeds my expectations for shape, texture, and flavor. The dusky, d [...]
Fresh Pasta with Pumpkin Sauce and Crisped Sage
The first pasta dish I remember eating that didn’t involve tomato sauce or tons of cream and cheese was a New York restaurant entrée of fresh ravioli stuffed with pumpkin and [...]
Linguine with Clams and Chorizo
Linguine with Clams and Chorizo 2 to 2 ½ lb. (1 kg.) Manila clams (this is what I can find in the Mont-Saint-Michel bay) or littleneck or cherrystone clams (about 50 to 60 sm [...]
Linguine with Clams and Garlic Petals à la Marie-Christine
I still can’t believe how fast—or how good—this recipe is. When Marie-Christine made it for the first time, I watched her, I devoured the clams—minus the pasta (she was servi [...]
‘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 [...]
Farfalle with Fresh Peas and Zucchini
Pasta, fresh peas, and lashings of grated cheese…that’s the kind of supper you want on an evening when the rain blows in and brings with it a 20-degree temperature drop at th [...]
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 [...]