Look, I married him anyway, but my partner doesn’t really go for breakfast for dinner. I KNOW. It’s madness, and I will never understand. If I served breakfast for dinner, he would utter nary a word, because he’s that kind of guy, but he isn’t […]
Ohhhh….Spring has sprung, said the bumblebee…. It takes pretty much all of my self control not to burst into this particularly charming preschool song everytime I step out the door these days. Everything is blooming and glorious, not only the pink and white and purple […]
When I got my Vitamix a few years ago, I was all about the smoothie. Smoothies for breakfast. Smoothies for after running. Smoothies for a quick lunch. Smoothies to impart key nutrition to kiddos. Smoothies to sustain me. I was in fact kind of an […]
Look, I’m all about the artisan boule. It is my preferred bread form, and I make between four and eight loaves a week. No, I do not eat them all, but I delight in the three-day process to nurture them into existence and the joy […]
Last week was spring break in Seattle, which meant a near-constant presence of helpful little hands and voices asking for something to eat, something to drink, someone to build a lego garage, no two, no three, no can you just build an entire town, someone […]
I was away last week and over the weekend, and this week is spring break, so getting dinner together the next few days is going to be a feat of willpower alone. While away, I pillaged my friend’s delightful cookbook collection, and she sent me […]
There are approximately one bazillion different types of dals in this fine world, and there is no way I could ever hope – or even want – to pick just one in my rotation. In my pantry, I usually stock chana dal (hulled, split garbanzos), […]
I ate so much today for Easter brunch – including a quite successful, if slightly underbaked, chocolate babka/krantz cake that I successfully adapted from the Ottolenghi recipe in Jerusalem (using a few notes from Smitten Kitchen) to work as a naturally leavened, pre-fermented sourdough concoction. Can I […]
Is there anything better than flipping through that excellent new cookbook you bought last week and stumbling upon the seasonally-perfect, ingredients-in-your-crisper, everyone-in-your-house-will-totally-eat-this dinner? No, I don’t know either, because that never happens. Ever. Oh well. Cookbooks are still the best. I live dangerously close to […]
Looking at my calendar just now and holy moly (ha!) is it really Easter this Sunday? We are not a religious people, but Easter brunch is a family tradition, so I better get cracking on my hot cross buns and such. I really want to […]