It's been quiet around these parts lately because I have made literally nothing creative for weeks. Between tr

Trust me when I say that I'm the last person that expected a hash brown recipe to end up on the blog. Potatoes

It cannot possibly be more than half way through April. These months recently---I swear the calendar is playin

Have I ever told you we have an egg guy? An egg CSA to be more fair---one that gives us a dozen beautiful eggs

I heard birds chirping this week. I saw ducks in our lake and green things popping out of the ground. It smel

The last few weeks, I feel like we've descended into moderate chaos. We kicked off a what-feels-like major con

They say life is all about facing new challenges. They say you should shoot for the moon, and even if you miss

Five years ago in April, Jason and I met friends out in Colorado to go skiing. It was 70 degrees at the bottom

A friend of mine pointed out that I've used lemon zest in 33 recipes on my blog. The question is: is that too

I'm well aware I have too many salmon dishes on the blog. It's my default. My go to protein when I don't feel

Since Thanksgiving, we've casually gone through about 10 pounds of butter at our house. There was cranberry cu

Since we last talked, I survived the Great Basement Flooding of 2017 and ate dinner at Alinea. The basement wa

Despite being born outside of the United States, I've never particularly thought of myself as foreign. I was f

Did you count down from 10 and stay up past midnight last weekend? I did, and yes, I'm consider that an accom

Tap, tap. Hello, is this thing on? Hi, it's me, I've been hiding under a rock for the last month. And by hidin

There are few artisan producers in town that I follow closer than Quince & Apple. Not only is their produ

Is anyone looking for Thanksgiving recipes for next year yet? Too soon? I don't care, because I came home from

Is it too late to give you a Thanksgiving recipe? Have you already carefully laid out your menu, figured out t

I've been trying a thing this past week---it's called not reading anything on the Internet. I've come to terms

It feels completely trivial and wrong to post a recipe for scones after what happened last night. I'm still tr

Where to start with this week? Perhaps we can start with the emergency room visit we had on Sunday at 4 in the

Jason and I both work from home. Most weekdays, we wouldn't leave the house if we didn't need to take Theo to

Two broccoli recipes in a row? After years of just one lone broccoli recipe on the blog? Truth is, I've had

The universe was trying to stop me from making this soup. I got broccoli in the CSA, and since we've official

I've been totally and completely addicted to coffee since the age of 16. In college, a decent portion of my in

Dragon tongue beans may be my new favorite ingredient. They're a cross somewhere between a snap pea and a gree

For some reason, I volunteered for the salad course for this year's cheese party. I didn't have any recipes in

One of the main reasons I signed up for a CSA three fateful years ago was to branch out and try new ingredient

There is nothing that gets me quite so excited than the first time I get Delicata squash in the CSA. Delicata

People always underestimate a head of green cabbage. It just seems so unexciting, so never-ending, so totally

If you could put summer in a salad, what would you include? I'm sure there are many good answers to this ques

A couple weeks ago, my fabulous friends Kate and Cam hosted a BBQ. After what was an epic menu of smoked ribs,

A little less than two years ago, we took a trip to Sicily. We rented a villa with a group of family friends I

Whenever someone tells me that beets taste like dirt, my heart breaks a little. At first I attributed this to

This salad combines three of my favorite things. First, cherries, which I can eat by the pound. Next, pickled

Frying things at home is generally a real pain in the ass. How's that for a recipe head note? It seems that I