Which salad reminds you the most of warm summer days and family get togethers and gathering around a table to load your plate? Potato Salad? Macaroni? Chicken? Can you taste summer and picture a lazy Sunday afternoon in front of you just thinking about it? I can. If ever there…
I had a day to myself recently and decided to spend it doing nothing but cooking – not for the blog, not because I needed to figure out dinner, but for no other reason than I wanted to spend a morning luxuriating in the kitchen. Almost my entire life revolves…
I have talked before about not being much of a baker. I think it stems from the fact that I can’t follow a recipe verbatim to save my life. I am always tinkering. It works well for me most of the time, but when it comes to the precision needed…
Sometimes you want something super simple, yet refreshing with your heavy dinner. Today was such a day. I stole this recipe from Lydia, though granted, she probably still makes it better than I do. It is really quick, easy, and fresh. And even though it is this simple, generally anyone…
We generally get most of our produce through a local co-op. It is kind of fun, wondering what we will be getting the next week. It’s always different too, so the implied question each week is ‘what are we going to make this week?’ So when I saw beets, cabbage,…
This week, I basically fell in love. I met the perfect combination of nutty, down-to-earth and purple with a mix of science geekery thrown in for good measure. I could be describing Greg (minus the purple part), but I am actually talking about Kalettes. Who or what are Kalettes? Some…
Soup has its place in the world. My world more specifically, in my belly, in the winter. It has been frigid and we’ve been battling winter colds around here. Nothing is more comforting on a cold day than soup. So, we are sharing our warm-the-world playbook of soup recipes. PLUS…
Over the holidays a friend brought us a Hanukkah gift of some fantastic Mirasol red pepper bisque. I don’t know what he put in it, but it really was fantastic, and I was inspired to try my own. Now, I normally like a little more substance to my soup. Because really, how are…
Lemon Rice Soup probably conjures a vision of the gloopy, thick and congealed version that you find as an afterthought in the Greek diner around the corner. This is NOT that soup. Brothy, rich and tangy with lots of fresh cracked pepper, this is my go-to, cure-all, it’s cold out…
Smoothies are apparently the lifeblood of America in January. We all overindulged. We all went a little overboard and now our bodies are more than a little ticked at us. A good, balanced smoothie has its place in my shaker bottle many mornings. I like to add raw beets or…