I've been sitting on this recipe for weeks now. Probably as many weeks as I spent getting it perfect in small

My ever-so-thoughtful friend Gracie gave me a gift a few weeks ago. "To the best Russian cook I know. Actua

Tap, tap. Is this thing on? Yup, turns out the internet is still here. And don't worry, I didn't have any disi

These past couple of weeks I've been thinking if it's time to quit this little blog. Maybe not full out quit,

You know what everyone who lives in Wisconsin needs in February? A tropical vacation. To Hawaii -- Kauai in pa

If I was a good mother, I'd be posting photos of birthday cake right now. I'd be telling you all about Theo's

Most of the jobs I held before graduating from college were in restaurants. I started as a waitress in a dine

I've always been amused by people's reliance on the new year to try new things or recommit to old promises. I

My proclamation of having a vegetarian January is totally on track, you guys. There was definitely no short ri

I had my reservations about making dinner out of all purple vegetables. I had a feeling that the red cabbage t

These weeks before the holidays are supposed to be all low stress and calm, no? I should be drinking egg nog o

I've got 80 jars of jam sitting in my basement right now. I've got 10 more empty jars on the kitchen counter

For the last few years, I've been spending late November and early December frantically making jam and preser

I spend most of my day dreaming about what I'll be making for dinner. Breakfast though is the exact opposite.

A few weeks ago, I texted my friend Whitney, "We should go somewhere." Last Thursday we were on a plane to Ch

Alright Wisconsin. If you're doing this, I'm doing this. This weekend you gave me rain and cold, and I get it.

Being out of town for the majority of last week, the vegetables were piling up. I needed dinner that would wip

It took fall a while to get here, but now it's the real deal. Farmer's market vendors are full of apples, and

There was a time in my life where lentils made up at least 75% of my diet. This was back when I mainly cooked

It's self-inflicted, for sure, but I feel this constant pressure to create, create, create. As if every day, I

It's that time of year where both winter squash and tomatoes are making their way to our CSA basket. So natura

It's always the loose ends recipes that turn out to be gems. The ones where you're just trying to use up the l

Since when does fall start in August? In 2017, apparently, the year where nothing makes sense and the rules do

Recently, I haven't spent time writing. Sure, I may be throwing new posts on the blog every week and sharing v

I'm always leery when I steal a recipe from another culture. I don't want to be a total imposter, and I do 

File this one under recipes that make no sense but works nonetheless. I'm going to ask a lot of you in this on

This is the part of the summer where all we eat is large salads and whatever we can toss on the grill quickly.

We inherited a blackberry bush when we moved into our house four years ago. Blackberry bushes, we learned, pro

It seems like I haven't made dinner inside my house for months. Every day, we're firing up the grill. I'm thr

Sunday mornings are all about the lazy breakfasts. Theo is usually up by 7, but we pull him into our bed and t

Don't look at me like I'm crazy. Radishes are meant to be roasted---really, they are. Even if that's not how y

Better late than never for this spring dish, I say. Sure it may be June and sure, strawberries may be the high

A few weeks ago, I got an email with the subject "Help needed with critical cheese research." You can imagine

Long weekends are meant for baking, right? And while I realize that the perfect Memorial Day treat isn't a bre

About a year ago, two of my favorite people moved from Madison to Atlanta. It was bittersweet---on one hand,

When I first started this blog four years ago, I didn't have any misconceptions that I knew anything about coo