I got a subscription to Bon Appétit this year for some new dinner ideas. Some of them were immediate favorites and are now in regular rotation. So here are the recipes from the second half of 2024 with notes on modifications and whether the effort is worth it or not – plus a list of the recipes that I liked so much, I made them multiple times!
Continue reading “Bon Appetit, Part Two”
“What do you want to do for dinner?” I haven’t had to think about that since I got a subscription to Bon Appétit as a gift this year. Here’s are my favorite recipes for the first six months of 2024, with notes on modifications and whether the effort is worth it or not.
Continue reading “Bon Appetit, Part One”
“We’ve had one, yes. But what about second breakfast?”
If you’re going to have a Lord of the Rings marathon with the extended versions of the movies, you need to figure out what to eat for an entire day (11 hours and 36 minutes, to be exact). With the help of a few friends, I planned, prepped, and cooked an all-day feast to accompany this gathering.
Continue reading “The Long-Expected Party”This pad thai doesn’t come from a proper cookbook, but it comes from my notebook where I keep recipes that I’ve torn out of magazines and newspapers, photocopies, printed out and written notes on, or jotted down on the back of receipts. The notebook has no order or theme, it’s just a jumble of flavors that looked good to me. It’s my favorite cookbook, and after many years, it’s fairly hefty with some favorite dishes. But there are a lot of dishes that I still haven’t tried yet.
Louisa Gaylord 