Orzo Pasta Salad
Dressed twice — once warm, once cold — so the seasoning goes through the pasta instead of sitting on it.
- Total time
- 30 min
- Yield
- Serves 8
Stovetop — page 2
Pans, hobs, and one-pot dinners.
Pans, hobs and one pot meals. A good share of these are built on what sticks to the base of the pan after searing, which is the most concentrated flavour in the kitchen and the thing most often washed away.
Where a recipe says to scrape the pan, that instruction is doing real work.
Cheddar Bay Crab Cakes with Lemon Butter Drizzle
Barely bound lump crab with sharp cheddar and garlic, chilled hard so it holds, seared in butter and finished with lemon.
- Total time
- 1 hr 15 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 crab cakes
Creamy Chicken Gnocchi
Browned chicken thighs and potato gnocchi in a thyme cream sauce built deliberately loose, because the gnocchi thicken it themselves.
- Total time
- 35 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Beef Tacos with Peach Vinegar Slaw
Hard-seared ground beef in warm tortillas, topped with a cabbage and peach slaw dressed at the last possible moment.
- Total time
- 32 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 tacos, serves 4
Cornmeal Onion Patties
A thick buttermilk cornmeal batter packed with finely chopped onion, shallow-fried crisp at the edges and tender through the middle.
- Total time
- 27 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 patties
Easy Fish Stew Delight
White fish poached gently in a tomato, fennel and garlic broth, with the fish added last and the pot never allowed to boil.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Cheesy Spinach Dip Chicken Pasta
A cream cheese and spinach sauce held just under a simmer, folded through seared chicken and short pasta in one skillet.
- Total time
- 40 min
- Yield
- Serves 4 generously
Five-Spice Brussels Sprouts and Sausage Stir-Fry
Halved sprouts seared hard in rendered sausage fat, glazed with soy, honey and five-spice, done in one skillet in under twenty minutes.
- Total time
- 30 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Chicken and Stars Soup
The canned soup of everybody's childhood, made with real thigh meat and stelline cooked apart from the broth so it stays clear.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Easy Turkey Chili Recipe for Comfort Food Lovers
Ground turkey browned hard, spices bloomed in fat and a slow, lazy simmer — the three things that keep a lean chili from going dry.
- Total time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Yield
- Serves 6