Right before and after I had my little girl, a lot of people told me that having two kids was great. That it was tough at first (they said this with a perceptible shudder, which made me start sweating just a bit), but that after …
Do you ever stop and marvel at how quickly a year goes by? Sometimes I get caught up in the everyday of it all, only to be blindsided by the passage of months, whole seasons, then suddenly, a year. Before you know it, it’s been …
Everyone has their favorite fall thing. Pumpkin is a biggie. Sweet potato is another one. Mine is apples. Come autumn, I want apple everything. I love how versatile they are, how perfect raw or baked. I feel the same way about apples in the fall …
With this glorious time of mid-summer comes a serious case of chard fatigue. And kale fatigue. And leafy green fatigue. I have chard and kale in my garden and they grow so rapidly and so abundantly that I often can’t keep up. And there are …
Today, I ate 4 bran muffins. And no, this isn’t the beginning of some gross joke. Me, who isn’t exactly a “bran muffin” type of gal, ate FOUR of the things. (Admittedly, and without oversharing, I should not have done this. I got carried away …
Toasty French bread. Perfectly browned mushrooms sautéed with aromatic thyme and white wine. Fresh, tender baby spinach. Melting, oozing, pungent brie cheese. Dijon mustard swirled into a silky egg custard.
Marmalade is one of those foods that I always desperately wished that I liked. The way the word rolls off my tongue, the rosy, bright glow of it in the jar, the idea of sweet, but tart stickiness on my hot, buttered toast… it all …
We don’t often eat stuff like lemon ricotta pancakes for breakfast. Let me rephrase that. We never eat stuff like ricotta pancakes for breakfast. Every once in a while I’ll get up and mix up some run-of-the-mill pancakes or waffles, or cook up some hash …