Fast Easy Recipes

Recipe: Beef and Bean Taco/Burrito
A nicely spiced, easy to make beef and bean filling to mound into taco shells, or roll in flour tortilla shells, with other ingredients.

Give leftovers hearty new taste — use them as ingredients in soup
Mario Batali talks about a traditional Tuscan bread-based soup called ribollita and offers a recipe for a hearty white bean soup.

Cooking up a guilty pleasure: Pad Thai
  Let's think for a moment about guilty pleasures.You know what I'm talking about: extra-dark chocolate, Swedish fish, peanut-butter-filled pretzel nuggets, super-premium ice cream. Those are some of mine; I know you have yours.Oddly enough, one of my very favorite guilty pleasures is Pad Thai,...

Meg Wolff: Plant-Based: A Hearty Bean, Grain and Vegetable Soup That's Also Wheat- and Gluten-Free (Video)
Because I eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet with a minimal amount of processed foods, it isn't a huge stretch for me to remove wheat- or gluten-containing ingredients. It didn't take a lot to adapt this recipe.

Burns Night supper: vegetarian haggis
With no mucking about with messy innards or arcane cooking methods, a meat-free haggis can be made in 30 minutes. What are you doing for Burns Night?

9 Healthy Super Bowl Snacks
The Super Bowl is one of the biggest calorie fests of the year for many Americans. The average football fan eats about a day’s worth of calories during the game, and the U.S. Calorie Control Council estimates that Americans pack away 11 million pounds of chips on Super Bowl Sunday.

Putting on the pressure for bean recipes
A reader's request for a recipe to make beans in a pressure cooker elicits several responses from Tampa Bay area cooks. See more in the recipe exchange.

Erie men share their love for cooking
Shrimp, marinated with olive oil, sesame oil, sea salt and garlic, sizzled in the superhot wok. The aroma of garlic filled the kitchen.

Roasted whole hogs are part of Chinese New Year celebrations
If you’re a devotee of Cajun cooking you may be a fan of cochon de lait or whole roasted pig.

Batali | Come in from the cold for a comforting, versatile soup
The ribollita at Mario's Greenwich Village flagship restaurant, Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca. Everyone's recipe for ribollita is different. (Courtesy Josh Laurano/MCT)