A few weeks ago, my boss showed up at work with an enormous bag of kale for me. Evidently, her CSA kept piling it on, shipment after shipment, and she was running out of things to do with it. Her freezer was full of kale pesto. She'd been eating kale salads most nights. She had even tried throwing ...
Orange and Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
For a long time, I thought sugar cookies were sort of pointless. Where were the chocolate chunks? The toasted pecans? The sprinkles? I'd even take some dried fruit, if all else failed. But a plain sugar cookie with nothing in it? That just seemed...boring. But sometimes the simplest ...
Apple, Corn and Butternut Squash Soup with Curry
Ah, this soup. It's been a favorite of mine, in one iteration or another, for years. But there is a small problem with it, which prevented me from doing a post on it last fall, and which almost prevented me from posting it today. The truth is, it's not the prettiest color. Beneath that swirl of ...
Roasted Zucchini Mozzarella Salad
After I bought my spiralizer last month, I went on kind of a crazy zoodle binge. It was a torrid affair, but I think things are finally starting to cool off. The other night after work, I was planning to make zucchini noodles with Rao's vodka sauce, but for some reason I just wasn't feeling it. ...
Concord Grape Soda
In my house growing up, we kept all our family photo albums in a bookcase next to the fireplace. They were really beautiful—red and green and brown leather with gold trim. But on the shelf above them was a stack of loose photographs that we loved looking at even more—our family outtakes. (This was ...
Cuban Black Bean Quesadillas
I've been hearing rumors that this winter is going to be even worse than last year. It's kind of hard to believe, isn't it? We got so much snow that our roof started leaking in two places, and it seemed like once a week Owen's daycare was cancelled and either Alex or I had to stay home from work to ...
Pumpkin Spice Angel Food Cake with Coffee Glaze
My baby is one year old today! No, I don't mean this guy (who will be three next month). I mean this right here—my blog. Looking back I can't believe how much it has grown and changed. Honestly, when I hit publish on my first post I didn't know if I would keep at it. I mean, haven't we all started ...
Bourbon Butterscotch Pudding
When I was in college, one of my English professors once gave our class a very stern lecture about plagiarizing ourselves. That is, taking an old paper we had written for another course and resubmitting it as new. For weeks, I was terrified that I was going to unwittingly write the same paragraph ...
Honey Mustard Green Beans
A friend once asked Alex how his life had changed since he met me, and he said, "Well, I definitely eat more salad." Point taken. I do eat a lot of salad. I have it almost every night, either with dinner, or as dinner itself. Before I met Alex, a typical night for me involved a huge bowl of ...
White Wine Mojito
What are you up to this penultimate weekend of summer? Sorry. It's just... I love that word. Seriously, what have you got planned? We are going to take Owen swimming at a local lake, and on Sunday night we got a babysitter and Alex and I are going to try out this new craft beer bar, plus a ...
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