The Perfect Pantry®

New from the archives: three fresh posts (Recipes: farfalle or rotini pasta with spinach and sausage, pear and parsnip soup, football season chili)

Since early summer, I've been wandering through the archives, updating posts from the first two years of The Perfect Pantry, in the days before I photographed the food I cooked.

I'm really having fun cooking some of my favorite recipes again, with some of my favorite pantry ingredients, and while I'm at it, I'm updating old links and adding new ones, too. I don't know if I'll ever get completely caught up with all of the posts from the early days, but many more of them now have photos of the finished dish, along with links to other recipes I think you'll like.

This month's posts feature ketchup, garlic and chicken sausage, in recipes that at first glance look like winter dishes, but are on-the-cusp dishes you can serve right now, whether you're living in early Spring (as we are here in New England), or early Fall.

New from the archives: three fresh posts (Recipes: chicken tagine with prunes and almonds, chipotle meatloaf, Napa cabbage salad)

Keeping my promise to update a few posts every month from the days before I photographed the food I cooked, I chose three recipes I absolutely love, but, for some reason, hadn't made for ages.

New from the archives: three fresh posts (Recipes: albornia de chayote, mushroom barley soup, sweet couscous with pistachios)

Since early summer, I've been wandering through the archives, making a few dishes each month from the first two years of The Perfect Pantry, in the days before I photographed the food I cooked.

I'm really having fun cooking some of my favorite dishes again, with some of my favorite pantry ingredients, and while I'm back in the archives, I'm also updating the recipes and links.

This month's posts feature eggs, barley and instant couscous, and the recipes are ones you might be able to incorporate into the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend of eating and entertaining.

New from the archives: four fresh posts (Recipes: Floribean chicken chili, rotini with spicy meat sauce, tomato-nectarine chutney, kicked-up gingerbread)

Every month since early summer, I've been traveling back in time, making a few dishes from the first two years of The Perfect Pantry, in the days before I photographed the food I cooked.

I'm really having fun cooking some of my favorite dishes again, with some of my favorite pantry ingredients, and while I'm back in the archives, I'm also updating the recipes and links.

This month's posts feature chili paste with garlic, tomato paste, cider vinegar and crystallized ginger.