This is a bit of a cheat recipe, only in the fact that I simply swapped out the fruit from […]

I wake early every day except Sunday. That is my day of rest, or as much as my body allows […]

Yesterday was a roll with the punches kind of day. Everything seemed to be going smoothly, and then it wasn’t. […]

The freezer is plugged in! Hooray. Of course, it didn’t go as seamless or easy as one would hope, but […]

I’m racing against the threat of thunderstorms today, hoping to get to the farmstand, and then BestBuy to pick up […]

Mayo once saved my marriage. Well, at least this homemade mayo recipe did. I abhor mayonnaise. Whenever people talk about […]

I never really caught my footing between winter and summer. Yes, there’s no mention of spring because we barely had […]

It takes exactly six footsteps to reach the other side of my kitchen. The oven door only opens 90% of […]

The more I try to take steps towards a new normal, the more the past digs its claws in. Next […]

I shrugged off the travel time at first when I began interviewing for jobs in New York City. It’s a […]

Somewhere Michael is shaking his head at the irony of me collecting fruit from the mulberry tree behind the garage. […]

As the week began to spiral into disorderly chaos, I kept reminding myself how smoothly the previous one had gone. […]

life has been hard without you, and yet infinitely better for ever having known you.

I started a new job this week, and on the train ride home it occurred to me that making the […]

Hugging the tight curves of Ohayo Mountain Road, clutching the steering wheel to navigate the twists and turns, is my […]

Things are about to get berry-licious around here. This is great news if you love strawberries, and awful if you […]

Strawberries are finally here. I lost hope that I’d find any when I went out in search of them yesterday, […]

What is it about holiday Mondays that make the rest of the week move at a snail’s pace? Time has […]

The sun is blaring down on me, as I sit in the back porch writing. Should we believe the forecast, […]

There was a wedding yesterday. I’m sure you heard about it. You might’ve even been one of the two billion […]

No need to run to the supermarket when a recipe calls for self-rising flour. Just mix up this combination of […]

Even after 20 years of cooking professionally, I’m still humbled the way one small tweak to a recipe transforms it […]

You know when a recipe turns out so well you get lost in the moment, devour every morsel, and when […]

Working with sourdough conjurs feelings of “too difficult” or “fussy”. I say this because before I began working with sourdough […]