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 [...]
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 [...]
When I was a kid, everyone loved watermelon. On summer’s best days, we rinsed our pink, sticky arms with a hose at home, in a creek at a picnic, or in the ocean when camping. We held seed spitting contests. We had long discussions about whether that whole “growing a watermelon in your stomach” thing was [...]