a recipe blog focused on seasonal ingredients
the leaves started to change color up here about two weeks ago but today was the first time that i could smell the autumn leaves as they crunched under my feet when i went running. where the reds, oranges, and yellows used to be a sporadic sighting that i had to be on the lookout to see, those rich colors are now slowly overtaking the formerly green leaves. …
team. i know i sometimes regale you with stories of how recipes didn’t work the first (or even the fourth) time i tried them. but this cider glazed chicken with mushrooms and butternut squash was like a gift from the just-got-back-from-away-and-the-fridge-is-bare-save-for-leftovers-we-dragged-home gods. those gods are real, right?…
hey friends, let’s chat about the suddenly chic crappy dinner party. the article goes into more details but basically the rules are: forget the rules, see the people. as someone who spent all day saturday seeing people i wish i saw more often, i’m all in. …
this is the story of the apple cranberry scones that almost weren’t. you see, i got it into my head that, since it’s fall and everything (yay!), some baked goods with apple and cinnamon and cranberry were in order. so far, so good….
i recently enjoyed the absolute treat of getting together with my dearest college friends and, as always, cooking – a lot – was on the agenda. when they spied one of the recipes that i brought (for this spicy black bean soup, actually, along with a second soup), they were laughing at me (gently, of course), because i brought the original piece of paper that i printed out in 2006 when we first found the recipe. ‘member how the internet used to add a date stamp to the corner of each page you printed out? yeah, good times. …