For home cooks craving this deep, savory stew, we've turned to Ginette Mathiot's "Je Sais Cuisiner" ("I Know How to Cook"), an authoritative cookbook for French housewives first published in 1932, and...
This recipe is authentic to the Caribbean larder: beans, garlic, cumin, citrus and meat, bubbling together on the stove. Of course, rice and beans are served across Latin America, in different variations,...
The Thai-style version of duck à l'orange here requires only a little more work. It does not take much time to begin with, but if it makes life easier, prepare the curry base in advance, then cook the...
With a bit of red Thai curry paste, some cans of garbanzo beans and coconut milk, regular pumpkin is turned into an aromatic hot pot that can be served as a mildly spiced vegetarian curry, with more paste...
"Red cooking'' means braising with a strong sauce, one that incidentally is reddish in color. The technique is usually applied to meat but it works well with any firm white fish. If carp is unavailable,...
This recipe was originally developed by Pierre Franey in 1991 for the 60-Minute Gourmet column, a weekly feature dedicated to Times-worthy dishes that were easy, quick and inexpensive. This recipe fit...
This is an Iraqi dish for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, with bitter Swiss chard, sweet beets and beef in a sweet and sour sauce. In Amara, a city near Basra in southern Iraq, the dish is called "mahshi"...
I love the fact that beans, lentils and greens symbolize prosperity in the New Year in places as disparate as the American South and the South of France. I wonder if it's really because lentils and beans...