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A tale of two children (and Brussels sprouts)

If you have more than one child, you may understand this tale. I have two children. One is an adventurous eater, and one is not. One loves fish, and the other can’t stand it (although I don’t recall her ever tasting much of it). One adores butter and milk, while the other would prefer not ...

Sheet pan cooking promises a flavorful dish

There are one-pan dinners, and there are sheet-pan dinners.They both make sense. By limiting the cooking action to a single pan, there is less to wash up, which is a definite bonus at the end of a long day. But there’s a more important advantage: One-pan cooking ensures that every ingredient ...

Souper shooters: Start the meal in a glass

There is something magical about roasted butternut squash.Its orange flesh softens into sweet, nutty squidginess, which is easily transformed into a puree. It’s hard to believe something so rich and sugary can be loaded with nutrients and beta carotene, but so it is. One cup of butternut ...

Move over, Honeycrisp: New apple to debut at grocery stores

SPOKANE, Wash. — They call it the Cosmic Crisp. It’s not a video game, a superhero or the title of a Grateful Dead song.It’s a new variety of apple, coming to a grocery store near you Dec. 1.Cosmic Crisp is the first apple ever bred in Washington state, which grows the majority of the ...

Leaning in to Puttanesca

It took me a long while to make puttanesca sauce, the feisty Italian tomato sauce packed with sharp, pungent and briny flavors. I admit it was the anchovies that gave me pause. While I don’t mind anchovies in moderation, I don’t liberally cook with them, either, foolishly reverting to a ...

The Family Table: A kitchen vacation

I took a couple week hiatus from cooking recently.It wasn’t voluntary.While cutting some kale, I also cut my thumb.I wish I could say it was the first time I had a mishap cutting things in the kitchen, but I’ve needed stitches to close up a nasty cut or two before. This, however, was the ...