SOME RECIPES CHANGE YOUR LIFE. THIS ONE CHANGED MINE Long before Chewing The Fat existed, before food blogging was even a glimmer on my horizon, I came up with a glazed ham recipe that turned out to have rather excellent manners. It made its way…

Dumpling Tomato Salad with Chili Crisp Vinaigrette: Summer in a Bowl with a Year-Round Twist Some recipes are instant classics, and the Dumpling Tomato Salad with Chili Crisp Vinaigrette is definitely one of them. Recently highlighted as one of the New York Times’ most popular…

ERIC KIM’S LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN WINGS ARE A BREEZE TO MAKE This easy recipe for Eric Kim’s Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings is a wonderful take on one of our all-time favorite foods. Chicken Wings! And we know our wings.  There are no less than 8…

“This tender pound cake has slivers of vanilla-poached rhubarb running across the top and shot through the center, adding a tangy sweetness to the buttery crumb.”–Melissa Clark Finding a Rhubarb Pound Cake recipe was never an issue but finding one that was also great-looking was…

MEATLESS MEALS 101: ROASTED BROCCOLI AND POTATO TACOS WITH FRIED EGGS This Kay Chun recipe came straight from the pages of the New York Times. Every Saturday, the Times publishes a set of 5 recipes to set us up for what to cook that week.…

This Valentine’s Day, we bring you Chicken La Tulipe and Valentine’s advice from one Jonathon Reynolds.  This Valentine’s Day recipe for Chicken La Tulipe is remarkably easy to make. It achieves the crispy-brown perfection of a great roast chicken. That would be good all by…

With the bright flavors and great looks of a Salade Nicoise, cooking salmon was never easier. This Salmon Nicoise is a stellar recipe! It is unbelievably simple–especially considering the results. It’s a one-pot wonder, a gorgeous presentation that puts so much color on each plate.…

This glorious cranberry tart topped with candied cranberries and whipped cream put cranberries on our Thanksgiving Table in a dramatic new way. I marvel at Andrew’s passion for baking. And it’s at its zenith at holiday time.  It doesn’t necessarily mean Thanksgiving or Easter or…

  This Sheet Pan Recipe Lets You Choose between Vegetarian or Sausage Versions Mushrooms are a favorite way for Vegetarians to swap out meat.  And the meaty Portobella is our favorite way to do it.  We were delighted to go back to Hetty Mckinnon’s 1994…

Loco Moco and Holoholo make a Trip to Hawai’i even more appealing… I don’t need to go into the reasons why. I am sure you too would love to bury your feet in the sand—if not your whole head. So today, we’ll dream of the…

If there’s one bad thing about Food Blogging it’s this: You never get to eat the same thing twice. Once it’s out in the blogosphere, it’s cooked. Literally. Today’s recipe haunted us—it was so good! And it was in our old recipe format. What a…

The only reminder of your Mom’s Tuna Casserole are the Potato Chips I announced to Andrew that we were having Tuna Casserole for dinner. His mother, his sister Lauren wrote, “made tuna casserole for all of us when we were children and she used potato…

This cake is such a winner, our reader Pam made it twice last week! Pam first commented: “So good! And really easy to make. I love that it’s not super sweet.” Then she was back saying: “So good I’m making another today. Yes, So good.” …

There are now over 42,000 Instagram Posts hashtagged #SheetPanDinner And after I publish this, there will be one more. It’s a riff on one of the 20 recipes the New York Times put together last month. Melissa Clark had roasted thick bone-in pork chops covered…