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Make this soup on Friday and curl up on the couch to watch the first Christmas Movies! If you kept or froze your turkey carcass fr...

An ultra thin ginger snap smothered with hot pastry cream serves as the "crust." How the Quick Kiwi Tart with Gingersnap Crus...

Scroll down for recipe. Come fall, I make crostatas regularly.  They're beautiful, terribly good to eat, and generally make folks ...

Israeli (Pearl) Couscous, butternut squash, apples, pears, figs, cranberries, cheese, and pecans with an orange vinaigrette--cornucopia...

Slip some baguette with Gruyère under a broiler.  Saute some mushrooms with garlic, shallots, herbs, broth and wine.  Spoon the mushrooms...

. When brussel s sprouts (note spelling) first came back in vogue (they were vegetable non grata for a long time, right?), I put...

"Derby" Pie or  Pecan-Chocolate-Bourbon Pie.  Can you say decadent? When someone needs something baked, I do it if I can. ...

A tender, quite moist gingerbread from Nigella. Gingerbread is Christmas, right?  Maybe New Year's Day?  Certainly a cold-weather ...

Would you cook with this woman?  Meet Delia Smith. In North America, we might argue over who taught us to cook.  While Julia really was ...

What if you wanted beautifully written recipes, tastefully conceived, and perfectly photographed--all from home cooks--for home cooks? What...

I like a pasta bowl for lamb shanks and sides...sit them up in the rutabagas to show them off.  If you're a bi...

   Big bunch of bacon. (This is good.  I'm married to someone who eats anything with bacon.)  Next:  tons of onions.  Rice. Lots of ...

Turkey Pot Pie You might have lived when pot pies were a regular feature of your mom's menus.  Maybe you had them instead of TV Dinn...

Kathy's pie My hairdresser works about a half-a-block from my house.  Her name is Kathy.  I chose her because... she works about a h...

New USDA regs say it's ok if it's a bit pink.  As a recipe tester for Cooks Illustrated , I get to make all kinds of things....

I adore pumpkin in nearly any form.  I think I love pumpkins because they appear during my birthday month.  Maybe not, though.  Because...

What's in your frig?  Make pasta for a cool fall evening.  Pancetta helps. We lived for four years in Dayton, Ohio.  Ho...