The fundamental problem with mashed potatoes seems to be that they only get more delicious if you add more butter and cream. So when I followed the Cook’s Illustrated recipe for cooking diced potatoes in butter and milk, they ended up appropriately soft and silken, but it did not feel virtuous to eat them as…

Butternut squash takes on different tastes and textures depending on how you cook it, so it can be mixed with nearly anything and still add structure and wholeness to a dish. We had a quick breakfast before I spent the day helping run a phone bank: Scrambled eggs with sage, and pastries from the Korean…

Everything was going well until we learned the election may not be as straightforward as we had thought. I had a pumpkin cupcake for dinner, two of them, the old-fashioned kind from the grocery store where the diminutive body is an accessory to the orange frosting. (Photo: Appalachian Trail near Leesburg, Virginia.) >> October 29…