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Charlie's Meatballs

I bake these meatballs because it’s quicker and easier.

Summer Vegetable Soup with Hominy & Lime

The majority of the flavor and texture in this soup comes from a can in your pantry.

Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs

Serve alongside your buttered carbohydrate of choice.

Braised Chicken Piccata

“If you were a food, what would you be?” I resent the question, but the answer would almost certainly be chicken piccata.

Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco

Come summertime, you’ve got a lot of options: skinny haricots verts, fat Romano beans, or classic, stemmy green beans—and all work here.

A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies

Yes, the anchovies are a secret weapon, but the garlic cloves, slowly softening and caramelizing in the oil, are the real hero.

Caramelized Onion and Anchovy Tart (A Perfect Snack)

Concentrated in its salty, savory flavors, it’s crispy and jammy, rich and light all at once.

Crunchy Chocolate Shortbread

I like these cookies thinner but larger-in-diameter, like a crispy, snappier cookie.

Cinnamon Sandies

The roll-in-sugar really does so, so, so much for the texture (so crisp!).

Brown Butter Pumpkin Cake

It’s demurely spiced and not all that sweet, with a texture that anyone would be pleased to experience

Semolina Cake with Lemon and Fennel

The semolina, more delicate than cornmeal both in flavor and texture, gives so much more tender crumb than an all-flour cake is capable of.

Bonnie's Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

If pineapple isn’t for you, or you can’t find one that’s even close to ripe, this cake is great for any fruit that becomes tender but not mushy when baked.

Dining In

From the book that gave you Anchovy Butter Chicken and The Cookies. Published in 2017! Were we ever so young?

Nothing Fancy

From the book that gave you Slow Roasted Chicken with Tomatoes and Brown Buttered Salmon with Red Onion, Capers and Dill, it’s Nothing Fancy. Published in 2019! Imagine!

Something from Nothing

The latest addition to your collection, Something from Nothing is for cooks who love their pantry and crave simple and thrilling in equal measure. Published in 2025! The newest one!

Sweet Enough

Published in 2023, this is the third book in the collection. Mostly desserts, yes, but also some baking that is quite savory (Tomato Tart with Crispy Capers and Garlic, savory scones, etc).

Anchovy Apple Apricot Artichoke Arugula Asparagus

Bacon Banana Beans & Legumes Beef Blue Cheese Blueberry Bread Brisket Broccoli Broccoli Rabe Buttermilk

Cabbage Capers Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chicken Chickpeas Chicory Chiles Chocolate Chorizo Cinnamon Citrus Clams Coconut Corn Cornmeal Cranberries Cucumber

Dates Dill

Egg Eggplant Endive Escarole

Farro Fennel Feta

Grapefruit Green Beans Guanciale

Harissa Hazelnut Hominy Horseradish

Kale

Labne Lamb Leek Lemon Lentils Lettuce Lime

Maple Syrup Matzo Mushrooms Mussels Mustard

Olive Onion Orange

Panko Parmesan Parsley Peach Pear Peas Pecan Pecorino Pepperoncini Persimmon Pickles Pineapple Pistachio Plum Pork Potato Puff Pastry

Radicchio Radish Red Onion Ricotta Romaine Rutabaga

Sage Salmon Sardines Sausage Scallions Sesame Shallot Shrimp Squash Steak Strawberry

Tahini Tarragon Tofu Tomatillo Tomato Tortilla Trout Tuna Turkey

Walnuts

Yogurt

Zucchini