What to Cook

Tangy, Spicy Grilled Ribs

These ribs are for people who lack the time, tools, space or knowledge to execute something that could be considered “proper” barbecue, but do possess the desire for highly seasoned slow cooked pork basted with a slightly sweet (but mostly tangy) sauce and charred by fire.

Whole Wheat Pie Crust

While stone fruit and berry galettes do play well in this type of environment, my favorite application for whole wheat/whole grains is for savory galettes and quiches.

A Very Tall Quiche with Zucchini and Greens

If you need a good breakfast/brunch/lunch dish, this quiche is unreasonably delicious, a really special dish to make for your family or friends, and a great way to use the gorgeous squash blossoms that are at the markets right now.

Tomatoes Dressed in Toasted Fennel and Anchovy

The anchovy-fennel-chili-infused oil is good on quite literally anything, but is especially great drizzled over the sweetest little tomatoes you can find.

Frizzled Chickpea Salad

I’d eat these not quite fried, not quite caramelized onions and chickpeas with salty, creamy feta and lots of herbs (leafy, spriggy, coarse!) literally any time of day—an ideal side no matter the meal.

A Better Garlic Bread

While we’re talking classics, this garlic bread really is better than the rest, and I would argue almost non-negotiable with a cheesy pasta and salad.

Cheesy, Salty, Savory Scones

Feeling like something savory instead (same, always)? There’s also a salty, cheesy, dilly version of these perfect fluffy babies.

Sweet Enough Scones

These fluffy, buttery, juicy scones are a nice way to use summer berries, and are very cute on the breakfast table.

Salty Lemon Shortbread

These tart, salty, buttery cookies are an any-occasion dessert for me. Excellent with coffee or tea, a delightful addition a holiday cookie tin, or a nice way to end a big meal.

Hot Buttered Rum Pudding

If you’re looking for a great, unexpected, dare I say sexy dessert for your next dinner party, here it is folks. It’s a nice wintery dessert, especially when served with a post-meal amaro.

Matzo Ball Soup

If you’re celebrating Hanukkah (or just looking to fight off a winter cold) you can’t beat the classic. This soup has all the best things: light, fluffy matzo balls, an intense amount of celery, and #lotsofdill

Celery Salad with Sour Apple and Walnuts

This is the best salad to eat next to any hunk of braised meat, or on its own in the middle of the day with shredded bits of leftover roast chicken.

Anchovy Apple Apricot Artichoke Arugula Asparagus

Bacon Banana Beans & Legumes Beef Blue Cheese Blueberry Bread Brisket Broccoli Broccoli Rabe Buttermilk

Cabbage Capers Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chicken Chickpeas Chiles Chocolate Cinnamon Citrus Clams Coconut Corn Cornmeal Cranberries Cucumber

Dates Dill

Egg Eggplant Escarole

Farro Fennel Feta

Grapefruit Green Beans

Harissa Hazelnut Hominy Horseradish

Kale

Labne Lamb Leek Lemon Lentils Lettuce Lime

Maple Syrup Matzo Mushrooms Mustard

Olive Onion Orange

Panko Parmesan Parsley Peach Peas Pecan Pecorino Pepperoncini Pickles Pistachio Plum Pork Potato Puff Pastry

Radicchio Radish Red Onion Ricotta Rutabaga

Sage Salmon Sardines Sausage Scallions Sesame Shallot Shrimp Squash Steak Strawberry

Tahini Tarragon Tofu Tomatillo Tomato Tortilla Trout Tuna Turkey

Walnuts

Zucchini