’50s Frosted Sandwich Loaf
Earning of pride-of-place on many a ’40s and ’50s shower table, the frosted sandwich loaf was a tower of cream-cheese ...
20 Lovely Thanksgiving Dishes
Life…love…liberty and friendship…each new day shining with possibility and challenge : There are SO many things to be thankful for ...
40 Cloves of Garlic Chicken
When James Beard first whipped this up for Julia Child, he included matchstick-sliced carrot + celery plus slivered onion in ...
After-the-Party Veggie Soup
It happens after every dinner party. The guests head home. I clear away the wine bottles, and whatever fell behind ...
Ancho-Braised Lamb Shanks
It’s 12th night tonight! I’m not in baking mode–running about in the sunshine with my boys–so no kings cake, but ...
Ann Sather’s Carrot Bread
In 1945, Ann Sather plunked down savings earned at a Chicago meat-packing plant to buy an already-existing Swedish diner. Although ...
Apple Almond Cheese Tart
Whatever craziness is going on, in my head or otherwise, baking grounds me. Last night, for example, at like 4 ...
Apple Cake (Gina’s Hubba Hubba Apple Cake)
Gina DePalma thinks her mom got the recipe for this gorgeous, not-too-sweet apple cake from a ’50s women’s magazine. When ...
Apple Pie
Good recipes are like friends, they come and they go. Some, you may not see for a long while, so ...
Asian Salmon, Rice + Egg Bowl
When I have the chance to make a special breakfast or brunch, this is my favorite. Perfectly sauteed fillet of ...
Ballymaloe Irish Lamb Stew
Jump to recipeCherished recipes are like ripples, each one an echo of the wave-maker that first broke the surface. This ...
Banana Pudding with Homemade Vanilla Wafers
This is comfort, pure and simple. Smooth and creamy vanilla pudding, fresh sliced bananas, crisp little vanilla wafers, and a ...
Banana-Stuffed French Toast with Strawberries
Since debuting in 1971 at Disney’s Polynesian Resort, Tonga Toast–a cinnamon-sugared chunk of flash-fried, banana-stuffed breakfast bliss–has always been a ...
Banoffee (Banana Toffee Coffee) Tarts
This recipe story moves from Chicago to England to California and back again : ) It started back when I ...
Beef Bourguignon
This is a pot of pure comfort. Beef Bourguignon. I have had many requests for this most-classic of beef-stew recipes, ...
Beef Mushroom Barley Soup
Enhanced with curry, dried mushrooms and bacon, this beef-barley soup from long-gone Helen’s Olde Lantern in Blue Island, IL, was ...
Berry Swirl Mini Cheesecake
When you need that summer cool, creamy little something, this cheery sour cream cheesecake will do it! Swirled with a ...
Best Chocolate Whipped Cream Birthday Cake
Perfectly moist, dark chocolate cake, with light-chocolate whipped cream, and a pint of fresh raspberries dotted over the top. That’s ...
Best Homemade Tomato Soup
My Father has simple tastes, and with home-grown tomatoes, simple is best. The juiciness and flavor of summer-ripened tomatoes has ...
Best Tarragon Chicken Salad
Herbs are the best thing about my garden. Lilac and sage, lemon thyme and basil, tarragon and dill greet me ...
Biscuits with Country Ham
Pull these soft little clouds of biscuit hot from the oven, slit them and fill them with salty country ham, ...
Borscht (Beet & Beef Soup)
I have a friend who calls beets “essence of dirt clod” : ) But I have always loved their earthy ...
Boston Baked Beans & Brown Bread
Despite the unfortunate Phaseolus vulgaris moniker—the American Common Bean category includes bunches of beloved, native-to-the-Americas beans: navy, red kidney, pinto, ...
British Picnic Pie
Jump to recipeThese British-styled picnic pies put me in mind of a Wind in the Willows repast with loyal Moley, ...
British Pork Pie
Americans love their apple pie, but in Britain, pork pies rule the pastry roost. Brits spend more than £165 million ...
Brooklyn Blackout Cake
From the time it opened in its first unit in 1898 until the last Ebinger’s Bakery turned out its lights ...
Brown Derby Cobb Salad
From Hollywood’s Brown Derby restaurant and named for its owner, Robert Howard Cobb, the Cobb Salad is to Americans the ...
Brussels Sprouts (Petals with Bacon & Onion)
Today it was an impulse buy. But seeing those beautiful, almost prehistoric looking stalks of Brussels sprouts, I couldn’t resist ...
Buttermilk Fried Shrimp with Chipotle-Lime
A bunch of Chicagoans wrote to tell us they missed this spicy-good signature shrimp appetizer from long closed Joe’s Be-Bop ...
Butternut Squash Ravioli with Browned Butter Sage Sauce
This autumnal treat is one of my favorite pasta dishes. Tender ravioli pillows filled with butternut squash, shallots, and savory ...
Cajun Crawfish Boil
Mardi Gras parades for 2021 may have been canceled, but the feasting goes on. With crawfish season on, fill a ...
Caponata
Delicious, easy-to-make, no-forks-required, healthy and beautiful: Caponata on baguette rounds hits all the marks, making it one of my favorite ...
Caramel Pecan Sticky Buns
In a typical day, Shelby McCreedy might deal with, oh, money laundering, public indecency, intoxication, and some kind of theft ...
Carrot Layer Cake with Cheesecake Topper
I’m a carrot top who loves carrot cake! I’ve made many over the years, never quite as unusual as this ...
Cauliflower Bacon + PepperJack Gratin
Step aside, mac and cheese! This saucy cauliflower bake, with bacon, onion, and pepper jack cheese under a crisp crumb ...
Cauliflower Potato Leek Soup
Each week the farmers market brings new delights. I love both cauliflower and leeks and came home with an abundance ...
Cheddar Crackers
These nippy, buttery little crackers are soooooo easy to make! And they have a wonderful, crumbly texture. You can make ...
Cheesecake Like Little Jack’s
From the time it opened in 1905, until it closed in 1962, Little Jack’s restaurant was a force in the ...
Cherries Jubilee
Famed French chef Georges Auguste Escoffier had a long association with England, working with César Ritz of the Ritz Hotel ...
Chicago Chili Mac
Ask about the origins of this belly-filling, budget-stretching American favorite and you’ll get different answers. Some point to Cincinnati’s habit ...
Chicken + Veggie Noodle Soup (Gluten Free)
With a pandemic raging, daily life has taken on some sudden changes. For my family, with an nonagenarian dad upstairs ...
Chicken Consomme with Marrow Dumplings
While the chicken soup I grew up with was a hearty rustic version, friends of mine have sung the praises ...
Chicken Liver & Bacon Pate
After my brother got mononucleosis as a kindergartner (how does that happen to a five-year-old?) Mom launched a relentless iron-rich ...
Chicken Under Cover (Best Chicken Pie)
Homemade chicken soup may be a comfort for body and soul, but tuck that beautiful stock, chicken and vegetables under ...
Chicken Vegetable Barley Soup
Chicken soup is good for the soul, yes—but it’s also so nourishing for the body. There are dozens of versions ...
Chile Rellenos (Stuffed Poblano Peppers) with Rojo Sauce
Chile relleno, that egg-puffed, cheese-filled, roasted poblano marvel, is what I order when we get special Mexican food-to-go. But stuffed ...
Chili Con Carne with Homemade Chili Paste
One of my readers wrote in search of a recipe for bean-less chili that harkened back to her family’s Sunday ...
Chocolate French Silk Pie & Butterscotch Pecan Meringue Pie
Making pie crusts is such a soothing thing. A quieting, settling-in ritual that centers you in one place and time ...
Chocolate-Covered Cherries
Chocolate and Valentine’s Day are a forever pairing. For me, the choco-heart tradition is dipped in memories of my Aunt ...
Chocolate-Dipped Walnut Brittle
My Dad always loved English toffee, and kept it out of kids’ reach, high in a cupboard in the dining ...
Christmas Pudding
Stir it up! That’s the chorus in Britain on Stir it Up Sunday, right before Advent. Churchgoers hear, “Stir up, ...
Chunky Monkey Muffins (Banana Double-Chocolate Chunk)
I love bananas, their shape, color, scent & taste–and that they come wrapped in their own packaging, with a handle ...
Classic Bolognese Ragu
Jump to recipeKnown in Italy as “ragù alla Bolognese” this rich meat sauce actually has very little tomato in the ...
Classic Braised Beef Brisket with Caramelized Onions + Vegetables
Evanston-based poet and accomplished home cook Ori Fienberg likes Hanukkah latkes just fine, but his feast food favorite is most ...
Classic Christmas Sugar Cookies
When I was little, we had two favorite babysitters. One had the patience of a saint and taught us to ...
Classic Fresh Blueberry or Apricot Coffeecake Ring with Icing & Almonds on Top
Last time I chatted with longtime Minnesota State Fair “Supreme Ruler of the Kitchen,” Elaine Janas, the topic at hand ...
Coffee & Molasses Dream Bars
Richly flavored with molasses, strong coffee and a generous portion of ground cloves, these bars are one of my favorite ...
Colcannon
Yes, my hair is red. And yes, that means some Irish ancestry. Namely? A great-great gran named Ira Lake who ...
Como Inn Whitefish with Basil, Tomato & Oregano
I get a lot of requests for old recipes from the Como Inn, a long-gone Chicago restaurant favorite which operated ...
Concord Grape Tart & Pie
My lovely friend Kathleen S. grew up 15 miles from Silver Creek, NY, where they still host a Festival of ...
Corn Dogs
Here’s a little-known fact: Early corn-dog purveyor Ed Waldmire, Jr., wanted to call his corn-dog stand “The Crusty Cur”….his wife ...
Cornbread (Very Best! With Dried Sweet Corn)
I like a many-textured cornbread: crunchy on the outside, tender inside, with plenty of chewy corn niblets for added flavor ...
Corned Beef Hash
What to do with the leftover corned beef? Make hash! It takes just three ingredients: corned beef, potatoes, and onions ...
Country Captain
Even though Georgia’s “official” state food is grits, there was a time when this simple tomato-and-pepper chicken curry was identified ...
Cranberry Orange Charlotte Russe
This little jewel of a holiday treat combines whipped-cream vanilla mousse with a tart sweet cranberry gelee topper, all ringed ...
Crawfish Monica
Crawfish season is in full-swing, and there’s no better way to prepare those bright red “mudbugs” than in a hot ...
Cream of Celery Soup
According to the Farmer’s Almanac, celery needs three things to thrive: a long growing season, mostly cool weather, and a ...
Creamy Nectarine-y Cheesecake
Creamy cool and sunny as the summer nectarines it includes, this light, fruit-flecked cheesecake was requested by reader Marge. Marge ...
Cubano Sandwich
What to do with the leftover Easter ham? Make Cubano Sandwiches! Cuban immigrants to Tampa and Key West who came ...
Curried Lamb & Potato Pie
Sure, sugar pies are good, but a sturdy savory pie in midwinter is heaven. In response to a reader request, ...
Date & Cardamom Spiral Cookies (Kleicha)
Kleicha (various spellings) is ubiquitous at religious holidays and special occasions in the Middle East. There are many variations of ...
Deconstructed Pumpkin Pie (Pumpkin Mousse, Maple-Pecan Brittle + Sugared Pie Crust Twists)
There are people out there who don’t like pumpkin pie. (Cue collective Midwestern gasp!) But there are other pumpkin possibilities ...
Deep Dish Cranberry Apple Pie
This bright gem of a fruit pie perfectly balances sweet and tart. Cranberries and apples nestle together in lovely symbiosis: ...
Double Chocolate Bread Pudding & Barley Malt Caramel
Take bread pudding up a few notches! With chocolate stout giving the cocoa-bean chocolate an more-intensely dark backbone. And the ...
Dreamsicle Birthday Cake
In the hazy realm of childhood memory live two related events: The first time I plopped a scoop of my ...
Dressel’s Chocolate Fudge Whipped Cream Cake
This beautiful cake is our family-birthday must. After I researched this story about it and developed the recipe, with input ...
Duck & Andouille Gumbo
There are nearly as many recipes for gumbo as there are Cajuns. A lot of ‘em are made with okra, ...
Easy Summer Succotash
Nothing says “summer” like sweet corn and tomatoes. In the Midwest, homegrown and farmer’s market options abound, letting you choose ...
Easy Turkey Pot Pie
The Thanksgiving guests are long gone, you’ve already had a day or two of sandwiches creatively piled high with turkey ...
Egg Lemon Soup with Spinach and Meatballs
With my husband’s maternal grandparents Greek and Armenian, one or another deliciously lemony chicken soup was often on the table ...
Egg-Salad Sandwich (Perfection)
To me, the best egg salad is a refined egg salad. In the realm of protein-“salad” fillings, chunky is fine ...
Empanadas Picadillo
This recipe search started with a request from a reader looking for a meat filling that included raisins, spices and ...
Evan Moses’ 1940’s-Recipe Chocolate Malted “Frosty” Ice Cream
If you ever get to Benkelman, Nebraska, stop in at the Dundy County History Museum and tell them Lost Recipes ...
Favorite Old-Fashioned Potato Salad
There seem to be as many versions of potato salad out there as there are varieties of spuds! My husband ...
Fennel, Farro + Mushroom Bowl
Spring greens everything up in April, bringing welcome fresh growth. Foragers search the woods for wild ramps and mushrooms. And ...
Fig Cake made with Fresh Fig Preserves
It probably wasn’t an apple. Apricot, pear or pomegranate…maybe. But mythologists suggest that the eye-opening, original-sin-ushering fruit Eve plucked from ...
Flint-style Coney Chili Dog
There are chili dogs, and then there are Flint-MI-style Coney chili dogs, grilled and topped with a very specific spiced-meat ...
Frank Sinatra’s Favorite Spaghetti
In a 1973 interview with long-defunct Mainliner magazine, Frank Sinatra said, “Everything I know about cooking, I learned from my ...
Franklin Park BBQ Day Sloppy Joes
PTA School Barbecue Day has been a beloved tradition at Franklin Park, IL, District 84 schools since the 1950s. Featuring ...
Fresh Cranberry Bars
From the Oleson-family-owned O&H Danish Bakery, just north of Chicago in Racine, WI, these bars are easy-good. Third-generation baker Eric ...
Fresh Fig Layer Cake with Caramel Icing
My Mom grew up eating fresh figs from a large, spreading fig tree that grew by her house in Southern ...
Fresh Strawberry Pie
This fresh strawberry pie, stacked high with just-picked farmers-market berries in a strawberry-juice glaze, comes with a great backstory. Liberace ...
Fresh Sugar Pumpkin Cream Pie
Turns out those cute pumpkins you purchased for Fall decorating are very easy to bake into delicious fresh pumpkin pies ...
Fritzel’s Griddle Cakes with Cherry Berry Sauce
There are a lot of vintage cheesecake recipes out there that ask you to “sieve” cottage cheese. Basically, that means ...
Fritzel’s Pepper Steak
I first launched Lost Recipes Found as a column in the Chicago Tribune, which has a lovely archive of vintage ...
German Chocolate Cake (Marshall Field’s)
It’s tall. It’s magnificent. It’s the quintessential German Chocolate Cake: Four layers with classic coconut pecan filling. This cake’s tender ...
Giant Cinnamon Rolls
This goes back to when I first launched Lost Recipes Found for the Chicago Tribune, in answer to a reader ...
Gingerbread Cookies
My boys love gingerbread–the dark rich flavor of the cookie, and, the poses they can bend and flex the classic-cookie-guys ...
Glorious Morning Muffins
With the weather gorgeous and school ending, we are ready to be outside. These oh-so-tender little morning muffins are a ...
Gluten-Free Cinnamon Rolls
America’s love affair with cinnamon rolls is alive and well. Cinnamon rolls, sticky buns, coffee cakes…I’ve featured recipes for all ...
Golden Fried Chicken
July 6th is National Fried Chicken Day, smack in the middle of the Fourth of July holiday weekend. That makes ...
Gooseberry Tart
Wow, the things you learn when digging into etymology! Word geeks tell us that the “goose” in “gooseberry”, for example, ...
Grandma Bertha’s Apricot Delights
Although there’s not much razzle dazzle on the outside, beauty–delicate, buttery, apricot-tender, cinnamon-sugared perfection–lies within. Susan Levin of Long Grove, ...
Grandma’s Sunday Supper (Chicken Fricassee with Vegetables & Light Slaw)
When I grew up in nineteen-seventies Chicago, Sundays were family days. We’d drive to Grandma’s little brick bungalow on the ...
Green Beans Almondine
Jump to recipeSnipping stems off a pile of fresh green beans the other day, the bright scent wafted up and ...
Green Goddess Dip
Anchovies, chives, parsley, wine vinegar, sour cream…the original Green Goddess dressing was created by Chef Phillip Roemer of San Francisco’s ...
Grilled Pork Chops with Fresh Currant Marinade & Sauce
Fresh currant berries are the culinary pearls of the fruit family. Actually a member of the gooseberry family native to ...
Hand-Cut Fries with Lemon Curry Leaf Aioli
Somehow our dryer, oven and dishwasher all gave up the ghost in the same week. With four guys in the ...
Heirloom Squash Medley with Arugula-Tahini Vinaigrette, Fried Sage, Pomegranate and Pumpkin Seeds
I love winter squash–so sweet and nutty, rich and warm. Simply roasting the many varieties will give you a platter ...
Herb & Sausage Stuffing
The scent of toasting bread cubes, sausage in the skillet and fresh snipped sage make Thanksgiving morning warm and toasty ...
Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup Brownies with Chocolate Frosting
Nevadan Elizabeth Castle says she got this recipe from her 93-year-old aunt, Myrnie Dawson, of Princeton, IL. Elizabeth got so ...
Holiday Brandied Fruit & Nut Bars
My Mom had a pecan tree on the grounds of her childhood home in Houston. Long after she married and ...
Holidaze! Sweets & Treats
The sun is shining in through the windows, lighting up the mixing bowls and rolling pins, cookie cutters and pudding ...
Homemade Fresh Fig “Newtons”
When Stuart Smalley (Al Franken) saves his family in Harold Ramis’ 1995 comedy of the same name, it’s not without ...
Homemade Gnocchi
If you’ve considered, but not yet tried making fresh pasta at home, pillowy little gnocchi are a great place to ...
Honey Cinnamon Graham Crackers
For all of you firepit fans and s’mores lovers out there, here’s my absolute favorite homemade graham cracker recipe. It ...
Hoosier Mama’s Frito-Chili Pie
Born and schooled in Texas, I ate traditional Frito-Chili Pie with the best of them (aka bag-o-corn-chips with chili ladled ...
Hoppin’ John (Black-eyed Peas with Rice, Greens & Cornbread)
We could all use a little good luck to kick off the new year–platefuls of it, in fact. Good thing ...
Hot Cross Buns
“One ha’ penny, two ha’ penny, hot cross buns!” was once a British street-vendor cry heralding the sale of spiced ...
Irish Barmbrack Bread
Jump to recipeHappy St Patrick’s Day (!) from me and this beautiful barmbrack (bairin breac or “speckled loaf” in Gaelic,) ...
Jalapeno Creamed Spinach
Creamed spinach–Texas style! Sans canned-creamed-soup and minus the processed cheese, this is a gourmet side dish worthy of birthday dinners ...
Jam Tart (or, Best Basic Bar Cookies)
The bar cookie brings with it the promise of plenty, the memory of family gatherings where people talked long and ...
Jambalaya
I’ve had many requests for a good home-cook version of jambalaya, and this is that. Like the dish itself, a ...
Johnny Marzetti Casserole
Johnny Marzetti could very well be America’s best loved and longest standing comfort casserole. A mix of ground meat, tomato ...
Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins
I first ran this recipe story four years ago, when the Chicago Tribune gave me permission to take the Lost ...
Kentucky Derby Chocolate Pecan Pie
Was Derby pie named for the hat or the horse race? The horse race. But a hat does figure in ...
Key Lime Pie
The story of Key lime pie is delightfully odd, including Cuban sponge “hookers”, mystery aunts, canned milk and curing. The ...
Kirk Douglas’ Favorite Meatloaf
Before there was Michael Douglas, there was Kirk Douglas, Michael’s 1940s matinee-idol father. If it weren’t for Ant Man, in ...
Leek & Potato Soup
There is a delicious vegetable soup in this post. But first? Some stories. I don’t know why but I awoke ...
Lemony Olive Oil Tea Cakes
I am just back from TUTTOFOODMilano, Italy’s biggest food exposition. (Akin to our National Restaurant Association show, but on Italian-design ...
Lemony Smoked Salmon Dip
I’ve always loved smoked salmon, so tucking it into a creamy dip with fresh herbs and lemon is always a ...
Lime-Chocolate Ice Cream Pie
Serendipity! Two or three people who don’t know each other, and live hundreds of miles apart in separate States, ask ...
Lobster & Avocado Salad
For a light summer lunch that’s elegant and satisfying, this salad is just what you’re looking for. A silky combination ...
Lutz’s Raspberry Nut Bars
One of Chicago’s most famous pastry chefs until his death in 2011, Lutz Olkiewicz was sweets master at the Drake ...
Madison Guerrilla Cookie (….or comes close!)
I first posted this story exactly three years ago. In the interim? I’ve had another dozen letters from Madison Guerrilla ...
Mango Lime Sorbet
July 22nd is National Mango Day. When my boys came home with a celebratory box of very ripe mangoes, they ...
Marshall Field’s Chinese Chews
I would never have thought to put dates with chocolate. But wow! So good! The result, as exemplified in this ...
Marvelous Mashed Potatoes
Chicago chef Mike Sheerin has been making the mashed potatoes at family gatherings since he was six years old. On ...
Melting Apple Cake
Baking recipes usually frown on softer apples, specifying instead that you use Granny Smith. But this fragrantly spiced, fabulously flavored ...
Meringue-Topped Strawberry Rhubarb Custard Slices
Rhubarb, that gorgeously deep-pink vegetable that is most often used as a fruit, keeps really well in the fridge. I ...
Meta’s Buttery Buttermilk Biscuits
I woke up this morning remembering a whimsical fact: When my youngest child was a very small grasshopper, he nicknamed ...
Mexican Holiday Punch (Ponche Navideño)
The tiny little tejocotes were so cute, I bought a handful just to look at them! When the guy at ...
Mile-High Country Cornbread
Just had the pleasure of writing about Chicago chef’s favorite food memories, represented in this photo of a golden hour ...
Mincemeat Tarts
Among traditional Holiday foods, mincemeat goes waaaaaaay back. Dating from the 11th century, mincemeat pie originally packed (along with the ...
Mister MacTavish Rarebit Burger
Once-upon-a-time, I left a job as an editor for a national food magazine, to do marketing for Chicago’s beefy Lawry’s ...
Mom’s Chili Mac
The first time my parents drove to the tiny Texas town where I would spend my early childhood, Dad got ...
Naturally-Dyed Eggs
Well, here’s a Jacob Grimm you may not have heard : ) As a philologist studying Germanic folk customs, Grimm ...
New England Clam Chowder (James Cagney’s)
As long as there have been celebrities, there have been fans obsessed with them. The minutiae of their lives…where they ...
New Orleans Okra Giardiniera
When Liz Williams, director of New Orleans’ Southern Food & Beverage Museum was little, her mama couldn’t stand okra. “So, ...
New York “Dry” Crustless Cheesecake
The checkout lady at the grocery store thought I was on a real fat bender. “What are you going to ...
New York Crustless Cheesecake with Candied Lemon Wheels
I’ve made many cheesecakes over the years, but this one is Dad’s favorite—perfect for his 96th birthday! Smooth and creamy, ...
Niçoise Salad
When it originated in Nice, salade niçoise was just a mix of tomatoes, anchovies and olive oil—simple food for poor ...
Nigella + Sesame Cracker Crisps
I was delighted to get a letter from my sister-in-law Tonia that included a special gift: Nigella flower seeds to ...
North Carolina Cassoulet (Navy Beans & Meats in Ham Hock Stock)
This satisfying Southern dish full of richly flavored stock, smoky pork, vegetables, and creamy white navy beans, came to me ...
Not A White Russian
White Russians. Remember those? They were silky as the synthetic dresses my girls-college friends and I used to slip into ...
Old-fashioned Butter Cookies
When I was growing up, our sometime babysitter Shirley loved baking. I can still see her, arms crossed behind her ...
Orange Dips
In 1961, these light, fresh-orange-and-sugar-glazed, tea cookies won Jo Ryman Scott the first-ever bake-off at Fairbanks, Alaska’s Tanana Valley State ...
Panna Cotta with Wine Poached Pears
As far back as the 15th century, English cooks discovered that wine-poaching hard pears made them tender and tasty. One ...
Parsley Cilantro Pistachio Pesto
Pesto is a recipe that hardly needs a recipe—so versatile + quick + inviting of experimentation. I am constantly changing ...
Pasta Shells with Roasted Vegetables (Maggiano’s Original Recipe)
It’s a thing: Thriving restaurant concepts refresh and update menus often, sometimes eliminating dishes from menus that might have been ...
Paw Paw Cake with Silky Ermine Icing
When I was a little girl, my first swim lessons came from my Mom. She taught me a lovely, languid ...
PBJ Bars (Fresh Concord Grape with Peanutty Crust)
The grape harvest had happened, truckloads of deeply fragrant Concord grapes already on their way to become juice and jam ...
Peaches + Cream Pie
If you’ve had the pleasure of plucking a sun-warmed, fully ripe peach from a tree and eating it right there ...
Peanut Butter + Banana Muffins
When I was in kindergarten, my best friend’s mom—a prima ballerina from Australia, took it upon herself to teach the ...
Pear Gingerbread Upside Down Cake
Gingerbread is a favorite in our house—most recently in the form of this delicious cake with its pudding-like topper of ...
Persian Quail with Pomegranate Walnut Sauce (Fesenjan)
Sweet, tart, earthy and rich, this beautiful celebratory Persian dish originated thousands of years ago in the Iranian province of ...
Persimmon Spice Cake with Caramel Frosting
For anybody unfamiliar with the pretty orange fruits, American persimmons are native, highly-nutritious and were prized by American Indians and ...
Pheasant Ballotine with Sausage, Herb & Pistachio Stuffing
As a youth, a friend of mine used to travel to South Dakota where his older brother owned a spread ...
Pimiento Cheese Cherry Bombs
My mom loved pimiento cheese. She had an old box grater and used to make me shred mounds of cheddar ...
Pork Chops with Sauerkraut +Apple Stuffing
With three boys, a daughter, and son-in-law coming home for the Holidays, hearty, comforting dishes are in order for those ...
Portuguese Egg Bread
Perfect for your Easter morning! Suzana B. wrote in search of this Portuguese Sweet Egg-Bread recipe her husband fondly remembered ...
Portuguese Egg Bread
With ginger, mashed potatoes and some of the water you used to boil the potatoes in the mix, this beautiful ...
Potato Turbate
Since I ran the recipe for this Pinellas County, FL school cafeteria lunchroom favorite, I’ve heard from more than a ...
Preserved Meyer Lemons
Preserving lemons in salt is an ancient practice with delicious results. I am crazed for these, eating them sliced and ...
Pub Cheese
You could buy pub cheese from the refrigerated section near the deli, or you could make this creamy, smoky, beer-and-bourbon-spiked ...
Quinoa Roast Potato & Caramelized Onion Bowl with Arugula & Tahini Lemon Dressing
January being a time of new beginnings, it’s not surprising I’ve heard from readers and friends searching for the healthy ...
Radicchio & Lettuces with Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette, Pancetta + Blue Cheese
I like bitter lettuces—radicchio, endive, arugula—even dandelion, but balanced. So this salad has just a few leaves of the most ...
Raisin Date Nut Bread Baked in a Can
Because the result is so moist, baking and/or steaming bread in cans is an old-fashioned tradition people still ask about ...
Raspberry Fool (Raspberries + Cream)
Berries and cream have been a thing as long cows and brambley hedges have roamed and rambled across the British ...
Red Velvet Cake (Monica’s All-Natural)
It’s been a while since I’ve been to Beeville, TX. Not far from Normanna, Orangedale and Skidmore, it’s the Bee ...
Red+White+Blue Berry Trifle
Fresh picked and washed under the water spigot at edge of the orchard is undeniably the best way to enjoy ...
Rhubarb Rosette Upside-Down Cake
Gorgeously colored from ruby to pinky-red with blushes of celery green that take on a satiny-sheen in the light, rhubarb ...
Roast Baby Squash with Spiced Butter
Poultry may be the big star this month, but vegetables make my culinary firmament sparkle. Before Midwest farmers markets bow ...
Roast Pork Tenderloin with Grapes, Pomegranate, Fingerlings & Shallots
I often hum in the kitchen, especially when the meal prep is for a special gathering. For this delicious pork ...
Roast Pork Tenderloin with Grapes, Shallots, Fingerlings, Pomegranate & Herbs
I often hum in the kitchen, especially when the meal prep is for a special gathering. For this delicious pork ...
Roasted Tomato, Garlic, Herb & Cheese Pies
Because I love them so, herbs dominated my vegetable garden this year—dill, oregano, lovage, lavender, parsley, French tarragon, lemon balm ...
Roasted-bone Poultry Gravy
Using freshly made poultry-bone stock to make your gravy yields a result that is truly liquid gold. To make the ...
Rosemary Garlic Pork Roast
Low and slow. There is no better way to cook a nice, big pork shoulder roast–one that you have marinated ...
Rosemary Garlic Pork Roast Tacos
Low and slow. There is no better way to cook a nice, big pork shoulder roast–one that you have marinated ...
Rum Cake
When reader T.J. Campbell wrote in search of the recipe for a famous rum cake that used to be the ...
Russian Salad
I laughed when I saw it. Delightedly chortled, more like, to see that the New York Times was running a ...
Russian Tea Cakes
These little snowballs of melt-in-your-mouth pleasure are full of crunchy toasted walnut. They’re the perfect go-along with that mug of ...
Russian Vegetable Pie with Whole Wheat & Nut Flour Crust
Anna Thomas’s “The Vegetarian Epicure, Books I and II,” were the first cookbooks I ever owned. She published them in ...
Salmon Coulibiac
Truly the cuisine of royalty, salmon coulibiac (koo‐LEE‐bee‐ak) was Prince Philip’s favorite dish. It is to fish what the Wellington ...
Sauerkraut Soup
We’ve had requesters looking for what to do with the leftover sauerkraut, so this one’s for you! Rich with butter, ...
Sauerkraut Supper
Ask my 95-year-old dad Bob about food memories and he is sure to tell you about sauerkraut. His mom (my ...
Sauteed Fish with Melted Tomato, Spring Onion + Asparagus
Taking the short walk across the Piscataqua River from Kittery, Maine to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Cathy Wolff points out historic ...
Scotch Eggs
So a little history…Go to the website for British gourmet food retailer Fortnum & Mason and you’ll find the claim ...
Senator Russell’s Sweet Potato Casserole
Calling down to Georgia’s State Capitol offices and the Culinary History Society of Georgia, nobody could comment on the gustatorial ...
Serviceberry Pie (Yes, you can eat them!)
The berry world has its less-than-romantic nomenclature. I mean, “straw” or “rasp” don’t scream, “Eat me!” But those berries eclipsed ...
Seven-Layer Salad (A Classic Updated)
A thing is the sum of its parts. If the parts are stellar the whole can be a beautiful thing ...
Shaker Lemon Pie
Except for the no-sex and separation-from-the-world rules (pretty hard to overlook), I admire most everything I’ve read about Shakers. Progressive ...
Sherried Mushroom & Walnut Loaf
I once lived in a big, pale-green commune of sorts, where vegetarian was how you cooked, if you cooked at ...
Sherried Mushroom + Walnut Loaf
I once lived in a big, pale-green commune of sorts, where vegetarian was how you cooked, if you cooked at ...
Shortrib Stroganoff
For many during childhood, “company coming” unexpectedly meant mom whipping up the 2-cans-of-condensed-soup-ground-beef-bacon-&-sour-cream stroganoff. Although that was a comfort classic ...
Sizzling Salmon with Lemongrass & Tamarind
Pan-steaming fish over aromatics and then sizzling it with hot garlic oil is an old Cantonese cooking method…..the tamarind, ginger, ...
Skillet Cornbread with Molasses & Honey
Hailing from Texas, my Mom made a lot of cornbread: Corn dodgers, corn cake, cornbread…we ate it with butter and ...
Somali-style Lamb Shanks with Seasoned Rice
One of my boys went to school in Minneapolis where there is a large Somali population. He fell in love ...
Sour Cherry Hand Pies
Hand pies take a person back. To fourth grade, maybe (or even earlier,) when you’d bike to that corner grocery ...
Southern Squash Casserole
Squash casserole is a classic Southern comfort dish. Nearly every community cookbook south of the Mason-Dixon line has a version—most ...
Spanakopita Triangles (Spinach Sorrel + Cheese Pies)
Spanakopita—the buttery Greek comfort dish of flaky phyllo dough filled with cheese and greens, can be made as one large ...
Spiced Butternut Squash Pie & Southern Sweet Potato Pie
Ever since a food blogger published an article early this fall talking about her shock and horror at discovering that ...
Spiced Shepherd’s Pie
One of my boys loves lamb, and this one-dish classic casserole, layering sautéed garden vegetables and gratineed whipped potatoes over ...
Spinach Souffle
As a child, the dreaded words, “Eat your spinach!” had me pushing the boiled mass around on my plate, trying ...
Spudnut Donut Holes
Just in time for Fat Tuesday, Say, “hello,” to our spudnuts! These little potato-donut morsels are descendants of the German ...
Sticky Maple Pudding-Cake
Rich, sticky, sweet and gooey, it’s really like an upside-down cake, minus the fruit. Simple vanilla cake batter baked in ...
Stovetop Steak + Stout Stew
One of my boys loves deep dark flavors. If you want that in a good stew, steak and stout are ...
Strawberries & Cream Fridge Cake
Dreamy, chilled desserts full of cream, marshmallow, or mousse were very popular with housewives of the forties and fifties when ...
Strawberries in a Cloud (Blitz Torte)
I am a strawberry girl. I eat strawberries out of hand, make pies & jams with them, macerate them, even ...
Strawberry Shortcakes with Sugared Cream Biscuits, Strawberries & Cream
Dough made with a high fat-to-flour ratio is called “short” and bakes up into the tender crumbly biscuits we call ...
Stuffed Cabbage Rolls with Ground Turkey & Rice
The want for hearty/healthy chill-weather dishes has me celebrating casseroles and bakes. Using ground turkey instead of beef in these ...
Summer Girl Soda
Still hot? Me too! How about this vintage soda fountain creation? Raspberry, orange and vanilla in frothy foam…with all those ...
Summer! Sister Mary’s Corn Relish
This is the corn relish recipe that has won self-professed “ribbon slut” Barb Schaller eight blue ribbons at the Minnesota ...
Summerberry Pie
Juneberry, Sugarplum, Shadblow, Saskatoon…there are many names around the U.S. and Canada for what we know in Illinois as the ...
Summery French Lentil Salad
Greens are great, but for savory satisfaction in a summer salad, I love this cool and crunchy lentil and veggie ...
Sunchokes Two Ways: Soup & Smashed Potato
Earthy, sexy, silky, sunchokes beguile. To me, they’re like truffles in their scent and ability to make you crave just ...
Swedish Beet, Potato & Lettuce Salad with Mustard Cream
Really simple, really good, really pretty: just chilled red potatoes, beets, crisp lettuce and a creamy, sweet & tangy mustard ...
Swedish Cardamom Sweet Bread
Fragrant with the lovely scent of cardamom, this golden, Swedish-pearl-sugar topped braid has been part of the Good Templar Swedish ...
Swedish Orange Cookies (Apelsinkakor)
Today is Saint Lucia’s Day! Kicking off the Christmas holidays in Scandinavia, Saint Lucia’s means girls in white dress with ...
Swedish Pancakes (Plätter or Tunnpannkakor)
Swedish pancakes are tender, lacy, lovely creations. Finished, the delicate rounds are traditionally folded in thirds and served with lingonberry ...
Sweet Rice-Flour Pancakes (Crespelle)
I didn’t have the chance to visit 4000-year-old Otzi The Iceman, oldest mummy in Europe, at the South Tyrol Museum ...
Sweetcorn & Bacon Pie
The waitress at Ernie Risser’s family restaurant in Womelsdorf, PA, watches me looking dubiously at the gravy boat she plunked ...
Sweetheart Tart: Red Berry and Custard (Gluten-, Dairy- and Egg-Free)
When I hear, “Valentine’s Day,” the queen of hearts rhyme I learned as a tot, always pops to mind: “The ...
Tender Wedge Salad with Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing
Wedge salad is the perfect showcase for garden-grown lettuce and tomatoes. We tender it up by using Baby Butterhead (aka ...
Texas Slow-Roast BBQ Brisket
Yes, you can use the oven to make a good Texas Slow-Roast BBQ brisket! It’s not quite the same as ...
Thai Glass Noodles, Shrimp + Veggies
One of my dear friends–blonde, blue-eyed Becky, grew up in Thailand, and didn’t even visit the States until well into ...
The Original Chocolate Fudge Brownie (Palmer House)
The Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 was a chocolate-lovers dream: Boston-based chocolatier Walter M. Lowney brought the first American ...
Tortilla Crunch Stack
This crispy crunchy stack of fresh-fried tortillas layered with a tomatilla- poblano meat sauce, and Chihuahua cheese is a surprisingly ...
Tropical Fruit Tapioca Gelee Dessert
You know those recipes your mom used to make from what she pulled last-minute from the pantry? Nothing gourmet about ...
Vanilla Chia Pudding
I’m so late to the charms of chia! And not for lack of my daughter Em’s trying–she’s been raving about ...
Veal Stroganoff
When Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov wasn’t busy commanding the Russian infantry in Napoleonic Wars, he feasted: Historians suggest that an ...
Vegan Red Curry with Bok Choy, Sweet Potatoes, Squash & Lentils
This veggie laden curry is a favorite go-to for a sweetly spiced and satisfying healthy bowl. I’ve made it either ...
Verdant Veg + Chevre Tart
I love vegetable tarts—so versatile and pretty. I first made this one with brilliant yellow and green zucchini, patty pan ...
Very Airy No-Bake Cheesecake
Cheesecakes come in dozens of flavors and textures. Contrasting with the dense, baked cheesecakes many know, this vintage 1959 no-bake ...
Very Nutty Peanut Butter Granola
Was a time when “granola” wasn’t just used as the noun for the crunchy, nutty, dried fruit cereal, but for ...
Viet Cajun Shrimp and Sausage Boil
When my mom grew up in Houston, Texas, excursions to Galveston, where my grandfather owned land, were a beach-filled regularity ...
Vintage No-Bake Icebox Cakes: Berries & Cream and Chocolate Mousse
Chilled desserts full of cream, marshmallow, or mousse were very popular with housewives of the forties and fifties when the ...
Vintage Tea Sandwiches
One of the more entertaining things about recipe books from the ‘30s and ‘40s, is what they reveal about changing ...
Waldorf Salad
Recipe provenance is a wily thing. Who combined (insert ingredients) to make (insert dish) first? Definitive answers to almost any ...
Whitehall Club Creamed Spinach
Established as a private-dining club in Chicago’s boutique Whitehall Hotel in 1956, The Whitehall Club was a fine-dining fixture for ...
Whitehall Club Creamed Spinach
Established as a private-dining club in Chicago’s boutique Whitehall Hotel in 1956, The Whitehall Club was a fine-dining fixture for ...
Wild Caught Alaskan Cod with Fresh Sorrel Sauce
I’ve been singing the praises of lovely, lemony sorrel for a while now. The culinary herb—related to both buckwheat and ...
Wild Ramp Risotto with Spring Asparagus
Jump to recipeLast year, we planted our first crop of asparagus and were delighted to see the spears shoot up ...
Wine-Poached Pear & Rosemary Tart
I so love the flavor of our wine-poached pears with a little cheese, it made me imagine them in this ...
Wine-Poached Pears
As far back as the 15th century, English cooks discovered that wine-poaching hard pears made them both tender and palatable ...
Yule Log Cake (Bûche de Noël)
Among our family’s Holiday-making traditions, filling rooms with boughs of evergreen is one of the brightest and best. As we ...
Zucchini Relish
Like bread & butter pickles? Then you’ll like the taste of this relish. I’ve received requests for what to do ...
Zwiebelfleisch (Red Star Inn)
The road to recreating lost recipes can be winding–not always leading where you expected it to go. The search for ...