Savory tomato and onion tart layers slow-cooked onions and peeled, seeded ripe tomatoes in a short-crust shell, finished with parsley, basil, and grated Parmesan. The long bake concentrates the tomatoes into jammy sweetness while the onions melt underneath. It's...
Cool & Creamy Russian Cornmeal Pudding (Mamaliga)
Chilled cornmeal pudding with farmer's cheese is mamalyga gone elegant: a buttery yellow cornmeal base set in a mold, then sliced and served with crumbled fresh cheese, sour cream, and black pepper. The long total time is almost entirely hands-off chilling....
Classic Sweet Noodle Kugel Recipe
Imagine a dish that perfectly straddles the line between savory and sweet, a comforting hug in a casserole dish. That's the magic of a classic noodle kugel! This beloved dish features tender egg noodles baked in a creamy, lightly sweetened custard of eggs and farmer...
Hearty Tuscan Bean and Pasta Soup (Pasta e Fagioli)
Tuscan red kidney bean and pasta soup, pasta e fagioli, is thrift at its most delicious: the beans and their cooking liquid become the broth, and a spoonful of tomato paste ties it together. Cook the dried beans yourself and you're rewarded with a soup canned...
Easy Fluffy Dumplings for Soup (Vegetarian Recipe)
Incredibly light and fluffy soup dumplings are the spoonable kind that turn a pot of broth into dinner: tender eggy pillows that swell as they simmer. Butter, eggs, flour, and milk come together in ten minutes. No rolling, no cutting, just a soft dough dropped...
Vegan Spaghetti Squash with Hearty Veggie Marinara
This healthy spaghetti squash with vegetable marinara is comfort food with a vegetable doing the pasta's job. A chunky marinara of zucchini, carrot, onion, and canned tomatoes sinks into golden strands of squash. The vegan Parmesan on top ties it together in...
Easy Overnight Cheesy Ravioli Bake
Make-Ahead Cheesy Ravioli Bake is the dinner you assemble in fifteen minutes and forget about until everyone's hungry — layered refrigerated ravioli with sun-dried tomatoes and three cheeses in a silky egg-and-milk custard. It waits in the fridge all day, then...
Easy Greek Feta Pasta Bake
Mediterranean Baked Feta Pasta takes everything people love about baked feta and turns it into an easy casserole — crumbled feta melting into tomato sauce with cannellini beans and briny olives. The breadcrumbs on top get toasted and golden in butter. Twenty-five...
Creamy Three-Cheese & Oregano Pasta Bake
The coziest, creamiest pasta bake you'll ever make earns its name with a butter-flour-milk sauce loaded with Port du Salut and American cheese, baked under toasty rye breadcrumbs. Shred the cheese yourself — that's the entire secret. Restaurant-smooth,...
Creamy Garam Masala Mac and Cheese
The coziest mac and cheese with a spiced-up twist! South Indian-style seasonings — garam masala, turmeric, and garlic — fold into a buttery cheese sauce with sweet peas. It's familiar and completely new in the same spoonful. This is the mac that made me stop...
Hearty Veggie Macaroni Bake
Layered Vegetarian Macaroni Bake is pastitsio's easygoing cousin — macaroni in tomato sauce with spinach, corn, and potato, layered and baked with a golden egg topping scented with dried mint. It cuts into neat squares like a promise kept. Mint and tomato is the...
Roasted Eggplant & Spinach Pasta Bake
Roasted Eggplant and Spinach Pasta Bake caramelizes cubes of eggplant with peppers and fennel seeds, then tumbles them with pasta in a creamy tomato sauce. Roasting is what makes eggplant taste like something. This is the version that converts the eggplant skeptics....












