harvest salad with chicken, apple, goat cheese, toasted herbed quinoa, and a cider dressing

October 29, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

If you want to know what we’ve been eating the past two months, this is it. I guess you could say this salad has been stealing the show since it’s almost Halloween and I have yet to make a “quintessentially fall” recipe like chicken pot pie or a cozy soup (gasp!). However, I’ll confess that […]

smoky shakshuka with feta

October 19, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

If you had asked me a few years ago if I like shakshuka, I would have given you an ambivalent, “not-that-into-it” answer. But then I went camping with some friends and my friend Erika brought a skillet of shakshuka to heat over the fire for dinner. We tore a loaf of fresh bread into chunks […]

autumn sangria

October 1, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

For those of you who feel a pang of sadness with the realization that summer is over, let this beverage help you transition into the fall season. The rest of us count down the days until we can go apple picking and finally start wearing our favorite sweaters again. In my world, the seasons are best […]

pumpkin spice syrup

September 28, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

I know I’m living out a cliché by posting a recipe for pumpkin spice syrup, but hey, some things are popular because they are delicious and deserving of attention. I know all the coffee lovers out there (including myself) are thinking of this as coffee flavoring, which is absolutely the most popular use case. But […]

chocolate peanut butter tart

September 15, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

Not that I need an excuse to make this tart, but our family has had several reasons to celebrate recently, all of which called for a special dessert. Both Patrick and Adeline just had birthdays, and the blog turns 4 years old tomorrow! Our celebrating has looked differently this year (ahem, COVID) and record setting […]

pineapple coconut mojitos

August 28, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

We’ve reached that point in the summer when I brazenly curse the hot days and 90 degree afternoons in our kitchen (yes, 90 degrees, inside), but at the same time I’m celebrating our need for popsicles and cooling afternoon cocktails. About this time last year we were saying “cheers” with The Adeline champagne cocktail (in […]

grilled peaches and burrata with balsamic-honey syrup and toasted hazelnuts

July 31, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ve been meaning to rework some of my older recipes that are in need of a facelift – this was one of them. If it’s true that you “eat with your eyes first,” then some fresh photos were warranted. For this recipe I also reworked the directions to include a few more details, and I […]

acai bowls

July 16, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

It’s mid-July and finally warm enough in the Pacific Northwest to enjoy acai bowls. I experimented with this recipe about six months ago, and why on earth I decided to make frozen snacks in the dead of winter I’ll never know. Maybe it’s because I had warmer climates on the mind. Nevertheless, I was able […]

sweet potato fries

June 30, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

I struggled for a few attempts at getting these fries the way I wanted – crispy, not soggy and sad. I wanted to be able to hold a fry upright and not have it bend over in the middle. I tried multiple types of orange fleshed sweet potatoes, multiple baking methods, and different methods of […]

Smoky spiced ketchup

June 29, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

BBQ season is here, but before you reach for that bottle of Heinz to add to your burger or hot dog let me offer this alternative, homemade ketchup. And to those who want to call me a condiment snob, hear me out; most things are better homemade and ketchup is no exception. Smoky flavors and […]