This recipe is a vegetarian modification of The Barefoot Contessa’s Butternut Squash Risotto recipe. If you wish to revel in your omnivorousness, use chicken stock and also add a bit of pancetta or bacon to sauté with the shallots. I’m sharing this recipe as step 1 to making butternut squash arancini (risotto fritters), but the risotto is [...]
Well, here come those holidays. For many turkey or tofurky consumers, this means mashed potatoes are coming, too. I have several favorite mashed potato recipes, but there’s one in particular that is a splendid, fluffy, make-ahead recipe, which is perfect if you are either joining a Thanksgiving/holiday potluck or are hosting and needing to juggle many dishes in one [...]
Some treats that I crave are so guilty that I can’t even stand them sometimes. To want them, I need to be in a dark and reckless mood (or on a road trip). We’re talking perpetrators like Rice Krispy Treats, Sno Cones, and Chee-tos. They require alternate spellings of words because they are not legally [...]