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. […]
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 have never been a particularly “good” Southerner. Sure, technically I grew up in the South, but sweet tea and grits are lost on me. I used to literally wrinkle my nose when country music was playing. And I must admit that I hate biscuits. (Yikes…don’t look at me like that!) Porching, now there is […]
Summersummersummersummersummersummersummersummersummersummersummersummer, tomAto, tomAto! COOOOOOOORN, COOOOOOORN. Haha. Maybe that was mean. (If you, like me, *unwillingly* watched and re-watched bizarre internet cartoons back in the early 2000s—but now look back on that time with fondness—and if not, then your current confusion makes me feel old and/or young.) But I kid. Anyway. Make some quiche! Quiche is […]
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 […]
Tomato Tartines with Truffle Salt
I have been on an open-face sandwich kick lately. Simple lunches really are a pleasure, aren’t they? And now, at the beginning of tomato season, what could be a better way to enjoy that pungent, bursting flavor than fresh on a slice of warm, toasty bread?
The first time I ever tried paella, it was a very weird experience. (Wait, are you blinking and scratching your head and scrolling up to see whether you misread the title of this post? Don’t worry…there is a connecting thread here.) I had always avoided true, authentic paella because I don’t eat land critters. But […]
The first time I ever heard of margherita pizza, it was in my high school Italian class. I distinctly remember thinking that margherita pizza sounded just exactly like cheese pizza…and wondering why it deserved its own special name. Well, if you have never had margherita pizza, let me just set the record straight. It’s not […]
Every time I hear the word puttanesca I think of Lemony Snicket. There is a rather fantastic scene in the first book of the series (okay, and also in the movie) in which the three Baudelaire orphans must make a meal for a horrible uncle whose kitchen is mainly full of old tools, dust, and […]