Lemon bars have been one of my favorite treats ever since I discovered a recipe for them while flipping through my mother’s Junior League Cookbook when I was a child. We had a Meyer lemon tree that more closely resembled a sprawling bush, which produced so many more lemons than we could use that we gave them away by the grocery bag-full. Plenty of
Most of our mothers served us chicken noodle or chicken and rice soup when we weren’t feeling so hot as kids. Creamy, salty, soothing and fortifying, a hearty and yet light soup like this is guaranteed to make you feel better. And the good news is, you don’t have to pretend you’re too sick to go to school these days in order to find yourself gratefully slurping up a bowl.
It’s officially autumn, and it finally feels like it: the nip in the air, the toasty smell of changing leaves on the wind, the shorter days and chillier nights. This is the time of year when we’re blessed with abundant butternut squash. One of my favorite ways to enjoy this squash is blended into a smooth, naturally creamy soup. Hearty and surprisingly rich, a
When I lived in Italy, I was more homesick for the States than I’d expected to be, but one part of Florentine life that kept me cheerfully distracted from those pangs was the reverent culture toward food: simple, delicious, classic foods that feed the soul. I especially looked forward to my almost-daily marketing trips to the nearby Mercato Centrale—I had my butcher, my
Well, Memorial Day weekend has come and gone, it’s June, and it’s officially summer. To so many of us, that means eating a little bit lighter. Whenever it got really hot when I was growing up—too hot to turn on the oven or the stove, when a hot meal seemed as unappetizing as anything in the world—my mother would throw a whole bunch of marinated and fresh