The Original: Expensive beef tenderloin cooked with button mushrooms and served over egg noodles. Our Version: Flavorful, inexpensive tri-tip roast in a wild mushroom sauce, served on toasted sourdough bread.
This traditional dish of beef, sour cream, and mustard may have originated in Russia, but it’s about time for a version with ramen noodles, don’t you think?
Caramelized onions, melty Gruyère, and a deeply savory broth deliver the kind of comfort that doesn’t need improving.
Cabbage is the unsung hero of the winter kitchen—available anywhere, long-lasting in the fridge, and super-affordable. It’s also an excellent partner for pasta.
Who says latkes have to be potato? Brussels bring a delicious cruciferousness.
A slow-simmering, comforting braise delivering healing to both body and soul.
This marinara sauce is great tossed with any pasta for a quick and easy weeknight dinner that will leave you thinking, “Why didn’t anyone try this sooner?”
An ex-boyfriend’s mom—who emigrated from Colombia—made the best meat sauce—she would fry sofrito for the base and simply add cooked ground beef, sazón, and jarred tomato sauce. My version is a bit more bougie—it calls for caramelized tomato paste and white wine—but the result is just as good.
Easy to make, impossible to stop eating.