This vegetable barley avgolemono (Greek lemon chicken soup) is easy to make from scratch, filled with whole grains and fresh veggies, and so comforting. It's perfect for the freezer too! When we moved a year and a half ago, even though it was just one town over, many of our routines changed. We ...
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Lemon Yogurt
Crispy roasted Brussels sprouts are heaped over a delicious yogurt sauce spiked with lemon and fresh mint. This dish is easy enough for a weeknight, yet elegant enough for any holiday table! Is there such a thing as fall cleaning, as opposed to spring cleaning? In the past couple of weeks, I've ...
Easy Baked Shrimp with Garlic and Herb Butter
One of the many things that make me feel like I've passed into a new age bracket is the magazine Real Simple. I am now a subscriber. How can that be? It doesn't seem like that long ago that I was fighting with my mom in CVS about whether I was old enough to read YM. And it feels like just yesterday ...
Lemon Poppy Layer Cake
I have two vivid memories from Easter growing up. The first is the time my dad put all the tabs of Easter egg dye in the same cup, and we ended up with mottled brown eggs. The second is the time I threw an epic tantrum in a children's clothing store when my mother refused to buy me a fancy Easter ...
Homemade Dried Citrus Wheels
When I was growing up, I had a friend who's house smelled amazing. It was like cinnamon and apples, but also sort of smoky and woodsy. Looking back, I'm pretty sure it was a Glade Plugin or something, but at the time I thought her mom was a homemaking genius. I am not a homemaking ...
Lemon Meringue Sweet Potatoes
You know that sweet potato casserole you make every year for Thanksgiving? The super sugary one topped with mini marshmallows? I get that it's tradition and all that, but I have a better idea. It starts with roasted sweet potatoes whipped with nutmeg, fresh lemon juice and lemon zest, ...
Healing Lemon Ginger Bone Broth
When you have a kid in daycare, you get sick. Like a lot. When Owen was five months old, and about eight weeks after he had started daycare, I woke up in the middle of the night sicker than I can ever remember. I was convinced I had food poisoning, and since we had invited a friend over for dinner ...
Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Meyer Lemon and Pomegranate
I adore roasted Brussels sprouts as much as the next veggie lover, but I think that it's important to remember that there are other ways to enjoy them besides blasting them at high heat and showering them with bacon bits. Brussels sprouts can be light, crunchy and refreshing! They can even be a ...
Limoncello Sangria
This is my 100th blog post! I almost didn't notice, but last week I was doing some updates and realized that I was at 97. So of course, I had to plan something celebratory for today. But before we get to this week's drink, how about some fun links from around the web to help kick ...
Emeril’s Marinated Mushrooms
I've written before about how many, many of my cookbooks are stored in my mother-in-law's basement. I was down there earlier this week, and I'm not sure why, exactly, but I picked up a copy of Emeril's Potluck. Maybe it was nostalgia. When I was fresh out of college and working as an editorial ...
