Nourishing Joy in the Home Kitchen
I’ve written before about how much I enjoy baking homemade bread here: Sunday Baking Series: The Miracle of Bread.  After baking many different types of loaves, mostly from Ken Forkish‘s fabulous book Flour Water Salt Yeast, I was ready to branch out on my own. I thought …
It’s a magical time of year for the culinarily-minded in New England. The bridge between the hottest days of summer being edged out by the cooler nights of early fall means that just about every kind of produce is available in abundance. A visit to …
Happy Fourth of July! Is there anything better way to spend the holiday than sitting outside on a breezy summer evening, the smell of steak wafting off the grill, beer in hand? Unfortunately, Hubtastic and I do not have a grill, much less outdoor space …
I am a lucky subscriber to all of the America’s Test Kitchen Empire’s publications and I frequently rely on their recipes and articles to improve my home cooking. This past April, a recipe for Three-Cheese Ravioli with Brown Butter-Pine Nut Sauce tantalized me, despite knowing …
I am writing this post as I recover from a bout of illness-induced anosmia. As in, I couldn’t smell. For most people, not being able to smell during a cold is annoying, but for someone who lives to cook, it felt like a crisis. Which …
Since we got married, Hubtastic and I have tried to cook at least one vegetarian meal a week for dinner. We both regard environmental care as a priority, so this was a natural baby step to take. But, as with anything I cook, I’m not …
A big factor in people deciding that “cooking is not their thing” is the trouble of selecting and following recipes. Even when a recipe is carefully tested and the cook is relatively skilled, things can fail when adjustments are not made on the fly. This …
Like I say on my home page, I genuinely love cooking and look forward to it each night. A large contributor to my love of cooking after a long day at work is the process by which I choose what and how to go about …
This dinner was a lesson in flavor-pairing on the fly. I found a recipe for Brown Butter Skate Wing from Chef Johnathan Waxman’s cookbook Italian, My Way and had been curious to try it out. I had to wait until I found skate wing at our local …
Lentil and root vegetable salad is one of my favorite meals on a cold winter night. This warm and cozy salad is the perfect entrée if you like feeling satisfied but not stuffed after dinner, maybe with some room for hot chocolate leftover while you …