OTHER GREAT RECIPES TO MAKE WITH AUGUST TOMATOES: Creamy Gazpacho, Tomato Jam, Cacik, Summer Scallops with Sweet Corn and Tomato Succotash, Grandpa Potato Salad, Tomato and Dinner Roll Panzanella

I talk a lot about my fruit phobia. Probably too much. But I’m going to indulge again right now.

The thing is, I used to be terrified of cherry tomatoes. Long after I started eating regular tomatoes, cherries, unless diced like regular tomatoes, were off the table. And that’s not…

OTHER MAIN COURSE SALADS: Spicy Thai Beef Salad with Mizuna; Crispy Duck Salad with Pears, Pecans, and Ginger-Honey Mustard Vinaigrette; Saturday Salad with Walnuts, Dates, Zucchini, and Gouda

Salads are sometimes a bit of a food pickle for people trying to stay healthy. If you add bacon, cheese, egg, and chicken to your lettuce to make it delicious, and then slather it in creamy ranch dressing, is what you’re eating still truly a salad? Emotionally, maybe. But calorically? Hell to the no.

The cobb salad is probably the menu…

OTHER GLOBAL HYBRIDS: Moroccan Bouillabaisse; Soba Noodles with Kale, Parmesan, and Walnut Sauce; Austrian Breakfast Tacos

Throughout our many book appearances and Q&A’s, both online and off, one of the most popular questions people like to ask us is about our process: how do you come up with your recipes? Where do you get your inspiration?

We’re both pretty creative people, so the answer more often than not is: the idea just popped into my head, and I’m not quite sure how it…

Other BGSK Potato Salads: Warm Blue Potato and Green Onion Salad; Sarah’s Herbed Potato Salad; Grandpa Potato Salad

Last Labor Day, I shared the recipe for my mother’s herbed potato salad. If you’re looking for a classic BBQ side, it doesn’t get any better. But it’s also a lot of work.

Since I think about potatoes more than the average person, and my pasta cravings have now been shifted onto other carbs, this summer involved a lot of quick potato side dishes. One of the best thus far is…

OTHER QUICK PASTAS FOR ONE: Soba Noodles with Kale and Walnut Sauce; Spaghetti with Spicy Red Sauce; Pad See Ew; Garlicky Angel Hair with Shellfish; Linguine Aglio e Olio con Acciuga

When no one else is around for dinner and I get hungry, chances are I’ll whip up some pasta for myself. As anyone who cooks for one knows, it’s one of the best ways to make a single-serving portion, and as everyone in the world knows, pasta is just about the best foil for whatever ingredients and leftovers you have…

We started our Great Minds Eat Alike series in order to mix up the usual BGSK offerings with interviews and submissions by cooks and eaters whose mentality towards cooking and eating meshes with ours. Today we are incredibly excited to bring you a fabulous, informative guide on how to host a wine and cheese party from Maris Callahan, blogger behind In Good Taste. Maris is also a freelance PR gal and writer, and you can see all her work here.

As it turns out, Maris’s goals on In Good Taste are pretty…

EVENT: 3rd of July on the Island
VENUE: Phoebe’s Parent’s House, Martha’s Vineyard
PARTY SIZE: 2
TYPE: Romantic Saturday Night Dinner by the Sea
MENU: Broiled Oysters with Siracha-Lime Butter; Southeast Asian Paella with Bay Scallops and Shrimp; Patty Pan Squash Sauté

Since oysters have long been considered an aphrodisiac and usually appear on every Valentine’s Day prefix menu, it seems rather cliché to say that they have played a central role in my relationship.

Josh loves oysters, and so do I. On lazy Sundays this spring, there is…

Other Great Taco Condiments: Peach Salsa; Guacamole; Vegetable-Mint Salsa; Cooked Tomato Salsa; Chipotle Mango Salsa.

I think that as the summer wears on, we all become corn snobs. Around here, we start to see the first local ears just after July 4th, and it’s pretty exciting to make the switch from frozen corn-which we find useful in our small kitchens-to fresh. Though the ears are, well, a little small, and the kernels aren’t exactly oozing sweet corn flavor, they’re satisfying and we’re happy.

But by the middle of August, we’d totally…

Thank you all for sharing your beverage hopes and dreams with us as part of the Soda Stream Soda Maker Giveaway! We’re very excited to get to work on homemade ginger ale, mojitos, and flavored sodas-to name a few of the more popular items.

The lucky reader taking home their very own SodaStream is…Elena!

Here’s what Elena had to say:

Grapefruit crush! with or without alcohol. Or a sparkling sangria.

Stay tuned for lots of homemade drink recipes to come on BGSK, and more opportunities to win great products!

-Cara and Phoebe, THE QUARTER-LIFE COOKS

Other BGSK Tofu Dishes: Sweet and Sour Tofu; Asian Baked Tofu; Tofu Pizza with Garlic and Rosemary

For the last two and a half years, since this blog’s inception, I’ve been name-dropping Peter Berley’s dill tofu. In fact, I wanted to talk about it so much, I spent most of this post about soup gushing about tofu.

With full wariness about repeating myself, here’s a little background on my dating life and dill tofu:

In high school, our best friend Carolyn (not to mention Jordana) was…