It’s Secret Recipe Club time again! I have wanted to try making olive oil cake ever since my mother first figured out that she was lactose intolerant. Plus, you know me: I like to throw myself into recipes that sound a little weird. So this month, when I was perusing A Spoonful of Thyme, this […]
It’s Friday! Let’s make fish. Okay, so I admit that tartar sauce is not terribly sexy (the name alone is a little lip-curling). And this is not a fresh, new way to present fish. I wish I could tell you that I had a modern take on it, or that I’d found a way to […]
One of the unexpected perks of being a stay-at-home mom is getting to have near-weekly lunches with my foodie friend Sarah of Well Dined! Often when we get together, we view it as an opportunity to make something complicated (I think we like to show off for each other), or something our husbands would never […]
Sometimes the kitchen is a magical place. It can take an ingredient or combination of ingredients that I have never liked and transform them into something delicious that I want to eat again and again! That pretty much exactly describes how I feel about dill, which I have never liked…not in pickles (blech) or eggs […]
My mom came to visit a few weeks ago. She brought a large container of kale chips with her. I literally could not stop eating them. I ate like 3 cups of kale chips in half an hour. I was so disappointed when they were gone! But I justified this to myself (quite convincingly, I […]
Happy Pie Day! If you’re scratching your head right now and wondering what Pie Day is, just drag yourself back to your high school algebra classes and think, “3.14.” I love any day whose chief celebration involves making dessert. This year for Pie Day, I bring you a simple treat that only takes about 20 […]
If you have ever been to Red Lobster, you know that one of the highlights of the meal is the endless supply of delectable, buttery, cheesy biscuits. I could easily eat about a dozen of them by myself… I have had these biscuits on my to-do list for about four years, ever since I saw […]
Carrot Chickpea Salad
This salad hit me out of the blue. I was just scrolling through one of my favorite blogs, 101 Cookbooks, when I spotted this yummy bowlful and suddenly realized I had all the ingredients in my kitchen, and that I had a potluck to go to that very night. What a stroke of good luck! […]
I regularly find myself standing in front of the fridge trying to figure out what to do with all the little leftover odds and ends in my crisper. Halves of bell peppers, lonely carrots, three baby bellas that didn’t make it into a salad earlier in the week… Inspiration finally struck as I was struggling […]
I like cookies. I like warm, crumbly cookies. I like them with nuts and brown sugar. I like it when they are full of butter and they melt in my mouth. I bet you’ll like these cookies, too.