Kale sauce pasta, a recipe I adapted from the chef Joshua McFadden, is still one of my most favorite things to cook.

In braises, meat and/or vegetables are cooked partially submerged in liquid in a sealed environment. The beauty of this technique is that the ingredients become meltingly tender and you end up with a ...

with tangles of braised kale and plenty of chewy rice cakes to absorb the flavors and fat — an ideal wintertime feast. Featured Recipe View Recipe → But that butter chicken’s no slouch on a ...