Summer gatherings should highlight food that is delicious but easy to prepare. No one wants to spend a lot of time in the kitchen when the weather is hot. A talented French cousin once told me that ...

Roasting bell peppers adds a sweet, slightly smoky flavor. You can buy roasted peppers in a jar, but it’s so easy to do from scratch and the flavors are so much better. More delicious. I love them ...

My roasted shishito peppers are little flavor bombs that come out of the oven beautifully blistered, deliciously smoky, and ...

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a 9-inch pie plate or spray it with non-stick cooking spray. Combine bacon, onions and bell peppers and sprinkle them in the bottom of the pie plate. Sprinkle ...

Place a soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat and wait about a minute. Add the olive oil, wait a few seconds more, then swirl to coat the pan. Add the onion and cumin, and cook over medium heat, ...

My revelatory moment with red peppers occurred some years ago while visiting my husband’s Italian relatives in Pietraroja, a mountain village 50 miles northeast of Naples. Cousin Concetta’s red pepper ...