Marinated olives

Here’s an easy way to dress up green and/or black olives. The recipe is from Brett Harrision of Universal Press Syndicate.

WEST-COAST STYLE OLIVES
Yield: 16 servings

1 pound olives with pits, rinsed of any brine
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
2 tablespoons tarragon vinegar
1/2…

Sour cream was an elusive ingredient in the stuffed cabbage recipe sought by Pam Schaeffer of Grover. We received three sour-cream-free recipes in response to her recent request and published one of them in the Post-Dispatch.

Thanks to Marilyn Rickmeyer, here is…

Chinese Celery Salad

My colleague Amy Bertrand made this recipe as she prepared to interview Lucinda Scala Quinn, author of Mad Hungry: Recipes, Strategies & Survival Techniques. You might not think of celery as a side dish, but Bertrand, her husband…

The recipe is adapted from the 1964 edition of “Joy of Cooking,” by  Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker. For another recipe for this dish, which remains popular in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., check this week’s Recipe Exchange column.

In the book,…

Chocolate meringue pie

This recipe for chocolate cream pie is in response to a reader request. (You can find a dairy-free version at STLtoday.com/food.)

It’s from S.R. Bevirt of Belleville, who writes: “The following recipe is the only chocolate pie that I…

Whether yo call it aioli (in France), alioli (in Spain) or garlic mayonnaise, this condiment is an easy way to add flavor. You can make it from scratch, and it is sometimes sold jarred in import stores. Or use this…

Apple-Spice Cake

My husband and I took advantage of Saturday’s lovely weather to go for a drive to an apple orchard. We picked about 20 pounds of apples — not as many as in the past, when we had kids at…

This week, we have a recipe in the newspaper and online for easy peanut butter fudge — but this one, from Joyce Tucker of Belleville, is even easier.

“This was a favorite of my five children (all now grown). No cooking required!”…

Sheila Lukins

The Associated Press is reporting that “The Silver Palate Cookbook” co-author Sheila Lukins died Sunday. She was 66 and had been diagnosed three months ago with brain cancer. (To read her obituary, click here.)

Lukins had been in St. Louis less than…

Photo by Lynden Steele/Post-Dispatch

I came home from work one hot night this week and started to think about supper. I was hungry, but not in the mood to cook. Farm-fresh tomatoes sat ripe on the windowsill. Half a bottle of…