The recipes we actually cook.
Spaghetti, cherry tomatoes, and garlic cooked together in a little oily water, so the sauce makes itself as the water boils off. It’s the Cherry tomato and garlic pasta build of one-pan pasta.
This is a lighter version of Milanese, with no egg or breadcrumbs. Crispy chicken and a pan sauce pairs nicely with fresh sides.
I started making focaccia when I needed to find a use for some leftover pizza dough. I enriched it with olive oil, topped it with kosher salt, and baked it in a pan. We ate it with olive oil and balsamic, and it was lovely.
Making pasta by hand is easier than it looks. It takes about 20 minutes, plus a bit of cleanup.
A scalable, by-weight meatball for spaghetti, braises, and the freezer.
This is a classic, comforting soup, perfect for late summer or fall.
This was our kids’ first and favourite lasagna, and we used it as a vessel to hide vegetables in.
There are a few ways to make pizza sauce, depending on how lazy you are. One of our favourites is cooked down from good tomatoes for a moderate amount of time; my fastest comes from a tin of crushed tomatoes or sauce, thickened with paste. …
Some days I just want an easy pizza dough. I don’t want it 3 days from now, I just know I have food in the fridge that needs to be used up, and a pizza is the most palatable way to do it. This recipe is based on a Serious Eats recipe, and I …
A basic marinara sauce can be used directly or as a base to other sauces. This recipe is based on Chef John’s and others I have seen. It’s thicker and richer than a pizza sauce, and can be adapted as a base for savoury sauces (meat or …
This is a great filling for vegetarian pasta like ravioli, tortellini, or sauced pastas like lasagne or ragù.
Pizza with less effort, what’s not to like? A long rise time results in a deeper flavour.
This is an improved dough tuned to work easily with a 6 L stand mixer. It’s high-hydration and can be sticky, but the extra water provides a better ferment and lift. It also works well for focaccia with more oil in the pan and whatever …
This is another iteration of my pizza dough recipe, based on some experimentation in late 2021. This is a medium-high hydration dough, optionally reinforced with additional gluten for structure and chew. I skip the autolyse step now, which …
This is a great filling for vegetarian pasta like ravioli, tortellini, or sauced pastas like lasagne or ragù.
This was one of the first fancy recipes we made when the kids were young. It was the beginning of our shared journey into cooking new foods.
