This may be incredibly shocking to you, but I don’t often serve my family cohesive, prettily plated meals. I know, crazy! All sarcasm aside, the way it usually works is I’ll pick something that sounds really great from a cookbook, blog, or something that I …
This recipe might fall into the “duh” category. I should probably make that a thing on my recipe category side bar. This salad would be in there, along with this and this. You know- things that are so basic that you really don’t need a recipe …
I like to think of myself as adventurous in the kitchen. Apart from my recent cooking rut, I usually like to try a variety of new recipes, use new ingredients, come up with variations on old recipes. But there are some things that I always …
It may seem strange to you that I’m making chili at the beginning of May. Chili is one of those quintessential fall and winter type things that seem to go perfectly with football, beer, and cold toes. But I just really like chili. Especially this …
It’s sweet corn season, when you can bring home armfuls of the stuff for pocket change. Crunchy, sweet, milky sweet corn- one of my favorite things. For the next month, sweet corn will be a staple around our house, especially because it’s so versatile and …
It’s officially fall, my favorite time of year for cooking. As much as I love summer with all of its fresh fruits and veggies from farmers’ markets and all the variety of things that are actually in season, come fall I’m actually in the mood to …
I’m trying to do this healthy-eating thing a little bit. It just seems like it’s so easy in summer, when there is such a plethora of vegetables and fruit everywhere, that it would be a shame not to. For me, quinoa equals healthy. Because it …