Instinct is everything. If I could sum up what I've learned about being a momma, that would be it. We've had

Let's get back to basics. Basics like mixing flour into butter with your fingers. Like mincing garlic. Like sa

The days are getting shorter, I can feel it. It's getting ever so slightly more difficult to get that 6:30AM w

I've been in an utter cooking rut the past week. Other than the tomato tatin, everything that has come out of

September is here, which means tomato season is going to quickly come to a close. You've probably only got a c

Raise your hand if you've ever eaten a ground cherry before. Maybe you've called them husk cherries. Or husk t

Eight days up in Door County. That's exactly what I needed. We're back from vacation with my family and I'm fe

Unless explicitly planned, we try not to order in dinner too often. Especially in the summer, when our fridge

Our baby camping grill is starting to fade on us. Probably because we've been using it every other day. One of

Putting peaches, blue cheese, and balsamic together is a classic winning combination. Those three ingredients

Hi hi hi hi hi. I'm literally giddy with anticipation for this post. Over the past couple of months, I've been

This month's Secret Recipe Club paired me with Andrea of Adventures in All Things Food. I paged through the a

Here is a list of things that I need more of in my life. More fried capers, more runny egg yolks, more chocola

I've been eagerly awaiting for figs to make an appearance at the grocery store. They're not something thats gr

I finally got around to making something new out of the never-ending volume of patty pan squash we've been acc

It saddens me to know that I didn't discover grilled cabbage until about a year ago. Cabbage, while indisputab

It seems like when we go on vacation with family, food just appears in front of us, asking to be consumed. I s

If you're not spending your nights grilling, you're doing summer wrong. We've been firing up our grill pretty

With the arrival of zucchini, summer is officially here. A soup in the summer may seem like a strange way to g

Last week, we finally brought our grill out of it's hiding place in the garage. The weather was perfect, the k

Picking a favorite cuisine is difficult. I can make a good case for a number of different ones---Mediterranean

We're going to keep things extra simple today. When life gives you too many radishes, you can go two ways. Yo

What do I do with a beautiful, luxurious, creamy wedge of blue cheese? My first instinct is to break off chun

In late March, asparagus made it's way back into our kitchen after a long (but honestly not that cruel) winte

I'm going to attempt the impossible: making turnips sexy. It's really too bad that turnips are bastardized an

Our first CSA box contained one of my favorite ingredients: bok choy. A member of the cabbage family, bok choy

What does one do when overloaded with a variety of spring vegetables? Make frittata, of course. Because what b

Today, I'm going with something sweet to celebrate our two year wedding anniversary. It is, of course, two day

With the temperature rising into the upper 80s this past week, I've been backing quickly away from the stove.

I first discovered kombucha about a year ago when I saw something strange sitting on a friend's kitchen counte

Numerous posts on this blog have been dedicated to my mother. They include recipes I've stolen from her, stor

I rarely get this excited to share a recipe. When I do get this excited, it's never over pizza. But this mess

Every week at the market, I'm picking up an ingredient that I've never cooked with before. Last week it was a

Last month, I joined the Secret Recipe Club and cooked a deliciously simple polenta dish. My assignment this

It feels like a natural instinct to turn rhubarb into dessert. Sometimes it's simply dipping a stalk of rhubar

One of my favorite summertime activities is throwing impromptu BBBQs. I'm talking about those warm weekends wh