Recipes

Split Pea Soup

Split Pea Soup, Round And Whole And Filling

Chris and I split a can of clam chowder the other day. You know, the readymade stuff. I’d forgotten how...

Pear Blue Cheese Tart

Pear And Blue Cheese Tart

Oops, an unintentional hiatus. And now an entire week has passed with hardly a check-in. Weeks like the last can...

Roasted Acorn Squash

Roasted Acorn Squash With Chile Vinaigrette

I feel like I’ve fallen out of grace. Your good graces, at least. You see, I’d prepared a whole bunch...

Asparagus Tempura

Asparagus Tempura

I hated asparagus as a kid. My mom would often force unfair amounts on my sister and me that we...

Fava Bean Hummus

Fava Bean Hummus

A day in the life of my pet scoby: It floats. It burps bubbles. It makes faces at me from behind...

Wild Mushrooms Papardelle

Pappardelle With Wild Mushrooms

With Thanksgiving over, I’ve switched to Winter Mode. Winter Mode consists of uplifting meals whose main ingredients might include any...

Pumpkin Salted Caramels

Salted Pumpkin Caramels

One of my biggest motives for food blogging is to fulfill these long-built-up desires to make foods I’ve never made...

Shakshuka

Shakshuka

Hi guys! Quick post today so I can tell you about my latest obsession: shakshuka. It’s kind of a round-the-clock...

Blood Orange Curd

Blood Orange Curd

I realized yesterday that our living room is just about about the size of the island in Chris’s aunt’s kitchen. Granted, her...

Butternut Squash Pasta

Pasta With Butternut Squash, Sage, And Pine Nuts

As I write this, the branches outside are swirling, restless, dry leaves rustling together furiously. And then they stop. It’s...

Pumpkin Biscotti

Pumpkin Biscotti With Cranberries And Almonds

Apparently I’m on a pumpkin spree. Allow me to grin sheepishly and assure you that pumpkin puree season is almost...

Vietnamese Summer Rolls

Avocado Summer Rolls

Chris and I went out to dinner last night with an older couple—friends of Chris’s parents—who live in a posh...