Mind, prepare to be blown: Stir Friday. Yes…it’s the solution to my weekly pleadings with my family to name something other than pizza (Jake) or meatloaf (Dave) when I ask what to cook for dinner. Stir Friday. I love it for so many reasons: 1) it still allows room for creativity, because “stir-fry” is a […]
I can’t believe my beautiful girl is 4 weeks old! But it was a long road in getting there (and I’m not just talking about sleepless nights)…did you know she was a week overdue? I spent a lot of time during the last few weeks of my pregnancy doing one “last” adventure with Jake, one […]
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. […]
On Sunday morning, it was so warm I didn’t even need a coat when I went outside. By midnight, the roads were icy and buckets of snow were on their way. Late winter is so confusing! I don’t know what to wear, I don’t know what to make for dinner… (Right? On blustery days all […]
Oh my gosh! So much squash. The first week squash started rolling in from my CSA share, there were just 3, and I was disappointed. Be careful what you wish for. Over the last 2 weeks, I have received like 10 lbs. of squash: cucumbers, zucchini, yellow crooknecks, pattypan… We have to use up some […]
CSA Week 2: Vegetable Potstickers with Sweet Chili Soy Sauce
A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a recipe for spring veggie potstickers that immediately peaked my interest. So last week when I opened up my CSA box and found a bounty of late-spring produce, I immediately figured out how to adapt the recipe to the veggies in my box. What I received for week […]
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 […]
So, my husband loves Asian food. That sounds like an over-generalization, but I can almost guarantee that if the cuisine originated from somewhere in the Far East, he would be perfectly happy eating it every day for every meal. Korean food, Chinese food, Thai food, Vietnamese food…you name it, he’s there. I find it challenging […]
This month for the Secret Recipe Club, I was assigned the blog Samayalarai: Cooking is Divine. What an interesting blog—and something of a challenge for me, an Indian food rookie! Looking through the pages and pages of recipes, mostly for things I had never previously heard of, was a real education for me. I mean, […]
Do you know the food talk show, The Chew? Five very different personalities joining together to share recipes and mock each other. Love it. The Chew has become party of my daily lunchtime ritual. I rummage around in my fridge until I find something that takes about 1 minute to get ready, wander into the […]