The greenest thing I know how to make is also the most delicious. It's the cover star my third cookbook, a celebration of roasted garlic butter and fresh greens, tangled with spaghetti and it's the kind of recipe we made once then again and again.
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Pi(e) Day Perfect: The banana cream pie that made me fall in love with banana cream pie: pressed-in vanilla cookie crust, an easy one-pot custard, and heap of slightly tangy whipped cream piped chaotically all over, using @emcdowell pie book for guidance.
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New! A forever favorite salad, more vibrant than ever: more lime, heat, crunch, herbs, and avocado too. It's a little bit party snack, but an easy lunch too. We scoop it up with tortilla chips and marvel as the giant bowl disappears.
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Tender, deeply flavorful meatballs cooked in a coconut broth are a forever favorite because it's so flexible -- add rice or skip it, add heat or limit it, load it with every single herb and garnish you see here and or keep it simple. Just don't miss this one!
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Quick, essential stovetop mac-and-cheese that you can have 15 minutes from now, or whenever an intense need for pasta with a sauce of salty melted cheese strikes and nothing else will do.
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These fatteh-inspired spiced baked chickpeas are served with pita chips, a finely-chopped tomato cucumber salad, lemon-tahini yogurt, and toasted pine nuts. Together this is the kind of colorful, layered, and flavorful dish I crave endlessly.
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This week's SK Digest is for those of us yawning into the week, missing our hour of sleep, with easy dinner ideas for evenings that feel shorter and two non negotiable treats. Plus, an interview with Anna Hezel about her excellent cookbook, Party Tricks.
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A quite simple but very kicky (garlic! lemon! pepper flakes! pecorino!) approach to a farro salad that's as good cold (potlucks and weekday lunches) as it is warm (with an egg, burrata, or crispy crumbs on top) that I cannot wait to have for dinner tonight.
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This week's SK Digest addresses the seasonal tug-of-war that is March weather with a collection of recipes that suggest spring, even when the warmth has yet to arrive. Plus, a new recipe and an interview with Tanya Bush, whose cookbook is out tomorrow.
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Chocolate-marbled, cheesecake-filled, crisp and buttery hamantaschen -- triangular filled cookies for the Jewish holiday of Purim -- are everything I've ever wanted in a bite-size and highly portable cheesecake.
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This bowl of soup is the coziest thing on the menu at Veselka, a beloved Ukrainian restaurant in my neighborhood, and soon, your kitchen as we push through, I hope, the last gust of winter chill. The splash of sauerkraut juice at the end is ...chef’s kiss.
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These small-batch pancakes are tall and fluffy but also one-bowl, no-fuss (nothing ghastly like separated eggs or random ingredients) which means you can make them half-asleep, as I usually do.
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A lemon curd tart for home cooks like us: Whole eggs, no rolling pins, no pie weights, no thermometer. It’s fancy enough to be served to the fanciest people at the fanciest brunch, but simple and sunny enough to make an endless winter feel brighter. Shall we?
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Snow again? I think it calls for this spin on rajma, a longtime favorite weeknight dinner. It’s a spicy mix of beans, chopped and sauced tomatoes, ginger, onion, garlic and spices that can be on the table in 20 minutes.
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Wild rice, roasted sweet potatoes and broccoli and a miso-ginger-tahini dressing all piled into one bowl make this one of my favorite everyone-approved weeknight dinners -- use any kind of rice or combination of vegetables you've got; the dressing is the star.
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New snow day baking project just dropped: A plush banana cake that's crisp with a flaky layer of cinnamon sugar on top and studded with a quilt of chocolate chips is an update of one of my family's favorite cakes, and it's caused just as much of a commotion.
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Plus, we have an interview with the fabulous Ella Quittner whose new cookbook, Obsessed with the Best, is out tomorrow. You're going to love it.
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Today's Smitten Kitchen Digest is about higher-protein recipes -- wait, come back! -- for the reluctant, that is, no bland egg whites or chicken breasts, but recipes that I hope feel joyful. And by joyful, I mean peanut butter cookies.
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Chicken pot pies are a snow day-perfect meal in a self-contained, even-better-than-you-remember-them package: tender chicken and vegetables in a creamy but unheavy soup base with an impossibly flaky but easy pastry lid. The weather commands us to make these.
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Thank you!
Old-school banana pudding with one little twist: double "nilla" wafers with a hint of sea salt because there was no going back after trying them. Snug and cozy in little dishes, this is a perfect snow day treat.
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The second I made this, it became one of our favorite winter meals. Budget friendly, hearty, so simple it involves not a single chopped vegetable, I had no idea stuffed cabbage could taste like this.
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I forgot about this!
The perfect freezer-to-toaster waffle [cough, Deb-Os] and it couldn’t be easier: a one-bowl, butter and yogurt-enriched batter that smells like heaven. I share all the tricks I’ve learned to ensure they come out of the toaster crisp outside and tender inside.
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I have a hunch that it's too long since we last made White Russians -- they're cozy and lightly sweet while packing a sneaky punch, so perfect for staying in.
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Cacio e pepe, one of my favorite dishes, as good at you’d have in Rome -- that is with only cheese, pepper, pasta, and water and not one other thing. You could be eating this in 20 minutes.
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The crispy, toasty, nutty object of my late (sigh) City Bakery cookie obsession, tweaked with brown butter and extra sea salt. The flavor and texture of these cookies is a dream; it always seems impossible that a single cookie could be so good.
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An unboring carrot soup with a lemony tahini swirl, smoky spices, crispy chickpeas as croutons that's vegan and magical, mostly because it was inspired by one of my favorite snacks, carrots dipped in hummus.
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A one-skillet, weeknight-friendly chili with a simple ingredient list that requires little planning ahead, which is awesome because despite years of opportunities to practice, I’ve not mastered planning far enough ahead to not be in a rush when making dinner.
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To make the most plush, moist, tender-crumbed vanilla-scented confetti cupcakes? Skip the eggs and butter. These cupcakes are vegan, one-bowl, and can be entirely finished in under an hour.
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