Fast Easy Recipes

A little seafood goes a long way
Seafood is a treat in our home and I enjoy a recipe that makes a little go a long way -- seafood pie is such a dish.

Wolfgang Puck: Duplicate the ease of grilling meats outdoors by pan-frying inside during winter
In last week's column, I wrote about the special pleasures of throwing casual, comforting dinner parties in winter. But I certainly didn't exhaust the topic.

Spice shop fantasy becomes a reality in Oakland
When John Beaver searched online for the keywords "spices" and "Oakland" he found restaurants that used spices. He found recipes that used spices. There was even a movie, "The Mistress of Spices," about a shop owner trained in the art of healing with spices. The story was set and filmed in Oakland.

Richard Beckel: Marketing talent
Alexandra Greeley Special to The Washington Examiner One of D.C's many talents in the restaurant arena is New York native Richard Beckel, executive chef of the newly opened Market Tavern in Arlington. Actually, both the chef and the restaurant are a perfect match: good food served in a sleekly elegant steakhouse ambiance, especially in its upstairs Chophouse. Beckel attended the Culinary ...

Retro dishes too good to forget
Welcome to the new year. A time for out with the old and in with the new, and I certainly accomplished that over the holidays by cleaning closets and organizing my kitchen. But when it comes to cold-weather cooking, I find the old favorites are what I crave, and that's when I go back in my files searching for recipes that are too good to forget.

Two fine cookbooks, no matter your gender
Year after year, good and not so good cookbooks keep coming out. Recently, two new titles made us wonder whether there is something gender-specific about cooking and cookbooks. Could a cookbook in 2012 possibly have something to say to women and not to men? Or vice versa?

Recipes that celebrate citrus
How discontented would our winters be without the glorious summer promise of oranges, grapefruit, lemons and limes?

Warm those winter days with a bit of sunny citrus dishes
Limes, lemons and varieties of grapefruit and oranges, including the ruby-fleshed blood oranges, are abundant in stores now.

Beef up your diet with these recipes
"Where's the beef" was a popular phrase in the 1980s, and Americans still love the protein that is a naturally nutrient-rich food, packing many essential nutrients into fewer calories.

Kellan Hori: Cioppino, 2011 Edition
San Francisco is famous for a humble dish called Cioppino. If you aren't quite sure what it is, the first word many of my friends will use to describe it is delicious.