Articles by Amelia Plair
Butter Together: They’re good for your heart
If you are as weird as I am (please say you are … please say somebody is), you may already know about this super-hot controversy over beans. To salt or not to salt?
Butter Together: Fry-day every day
It’s funny how some of the dishes that seem the most basic are also the hardest to pull off.
Butter Together: For when you can’t stand the heat but can’t get out of the kitchen
I grew up in a home without central air conditioning. (I know, I know … my children could never.)
Butter Together: Loaf at first bite
I honestly didn’t know zucchini bread was a thing until we started a garden.
Butter Together: There is a season (‘Turn, Turn, Turn’)
I know I’ve hit a winner dinner when a kid takes a bite and says, “OH! THIS is what I want for my birthday dinner!”
Butter Together: A brownie worth its batter
Let’s be honest: the one thing that makes a meal feel fancy is dessert.
Butter Together: The heart wants what the heart wants
Am I the only person who sees someone eat something and suddenly develops an intense craving for that food?
Butter Together: One sauce to rule them all
Do you have certain restaurant meals or processed foods you enjoyed in your childhood that now live rent-free in your brain?
Butter Together: Salsa (the food, not the dance)
Do you remember being in high school and reading word problems about odd individuals who had, say, 35 jalapenos but needed 110 jalapenos?
Butter Together: Quinoa Cake: I swear this isn’t an April Fool’s
I feel like there are a few foods that every home cook should be able to pull off: a good chocolate chip cookie. A baked chicken breast that isn’t too dry or too bland. And a nice chocolate cake.
Butter Together: Mama’s Lemon Pound Cake: It tastes so nice
I will admit that I hadn’t given much thought to free speech before I began dating a journalist.
Butter Together: This flat of berries had me in a jam
It seems spring has sprung. Or at least it did for a few days.
Butter Together: Scallion cream sauce nobody on the internet knows about
I have been a little bit obsessed with this scallion cream sauce since I first had it in college.
Butter Together: A pasta salad recipe that even I can remember
I’ll admit it: I tend to forget recipes.
Butter Together: A classic from a classic
I’ve made a lot of brownie recipes in my lifetime. I’m always chasing that one from-scratch recipe worth the extra effort compared with a boxed mix.
Butter Together: Pulling a ramen out of the hat
When I asked P what she wanted for her birthday dinner this year, she answered quickly: ramen, chicken and boiled egg whites.
Butter Together: Nachos that don’t require a run for the border
Look, I know trying to replicate Taco Bell food at home isn’t exactly normal.
