Food

CRAVE: School lunch ideas for pint-size vegetarians

Do you have a vegetarian living in your home? Even a little one? There are many kinds of vegetarianism, but many folks are reducing the amount of meat in their diets, or cutting it out altogether. And these choices are being made by kids, too. So with the new school year, the question ...

As inflation soars, access to Indigenous foods declines

Chicago — Blueberry bison tamales, harvest salad with mixed greens, creamy carrot and wild rice soup, roasted turkey with squash. This contemporary Native American meal, crafted from the traditional foods of tribes across the United States and prepared with “Ketapanen” – a Menominee ...

CRAVE: Contrasting ingredients liven up summer berries

It’s time to stop thinking about the difference between sweet and savory spices. Many cooks around the world don’t make such a distinction. In Greece and Turkey, for example, tomato sauce comes spiked with cinnamon, and in Mexico, fruit salad is sprinkled with cayenne pepper. In both ...

CRAVE: Unlock the secret to great salmon

For weeknight cooking, we love seared fish since it usually cooks in half the time as chicken or other proteins. But it’s a fine line between cooked and completely dried out. So for this recipe from our book “Milk Street Tuesday Nights,” which limits recipes to 45 minutes or less, we ...

Get school lunches ready to roll with easy wraps

There is little debate that the sandwich is the mainstay of most kids’ lunches; two slices of bread with anything they might consume layered in between. Wraps, however, have also taken their place in the pantheon of sandwich possibilities, and sometimes the mere novelty of a rolled-up ...

CRAVE: Chilies, turmeric boost 20-minute stir-fry

Weeknight ease, plump texture and briny sweetness make shrimp one of our go-to dinner solutions. Simply stir-fry a few aromatics and spices until fragrant, toss in the shrimp, and dinner is on the table in 20 minutes. We had that in mind for a “dry” but intensely flavored stir-fry recipe ...