I suffer from side dish apathy. I have such a hard time thinking up side dishes to serve or including them properly in a meal! The result is that I hardly ever make side dishes unless I am going to a potluck. My cooking style tends more toward making all-inclusive, veggie-heavy, one-dish dinners. So this […]
Bell Pepper Shakshuka with Feta and Za’atar
One of the pitfalls of being a food blogger is that there aren’t really many family favorite meals in our house. I don’t mean to say we don’t have favorite meals—just that I don’t make repeats very often. Our “favorite” meals tend to roll around once every three years rather than once every three weeks. […]
I have been wondering what the albino beans I kept spotting at the farmer’s market were all about. Wondering sort of idly. Green beans aren’t my most sought after veggie, so I wasn’t all that desperate to try their pale friends. That is, until I remembered one of the lofty goals I’d set for my […]
It’s summer. It’s hot. I sometimes have to wear a bathing suit. But I still want chocolate desserts. (So sue me. I don’t like fruit, remember?) So let’s just settle back and imagine the perfect summery chocolate dessert. One that is light and airy and melts in your mouth. One that doesn’t feel like it’s […]
Leftovers are my kryptonite. I never really know what to do with them! Sure, I sat down to plenty of “leftover nights” when I was growing up, but we ate a fairly meat-and-potatoes style diet, so even if the leftovers were mismatched, they still made sense together in their original forms. Leftover nights around our […]
Pico de Gallo
I so want to tell you about how awesome this pico de gallo is, and how I grew some of the tomatoes and all of the green peppers. But first, I have to tell you that while I was making this delicious, amazingly fresh summery salsa, my son was eating crayons. CRAYONS! I cannot get […]
I tend to resist buying things if there is the slightest chance I could make them at home. Things that are delicious and definitely need to be a part of my life. Things like dulce de leche. But then, often, I get scared or distracted, and before I know it two years have passed and […]
A few weeks ago, Sarah told me that she had a dill plant that was threatening to take over the world, and asked if we could possibly put it to good use? Um, YES! I must admit that I’ve never really liked dill. (I think I have admitted that before.) It just reminds me of […]
I’ve been thinking for a while that I should give dal another chance. The first time I made it, I used a crockpot recipe that turned out to be super boring and a little like eating dirt…and Dave said, “Well what do you expect? This is what lentils taste like.” But since then, I have […]
You are going to LOVE me. (Or hate me.) I have found the perfect ice cream recipe. I mean seriously. Hang up your hat, make yourself at home, look no further, this is the best ice cream in the world. Just in time for National Ice Cream Month! Why is this ice cream so perfect? Let […]