Today I Cooked...

 K and I were briefly devastated to learn that the pecan pie recipe we'd used for years was pulled down from the Food and Wine website -...

 A flavor combination that is seemingly common in pastry cases around Quebec is blueberry and ginger - I had a loaf of sourdough studded wit...

 There's something about breakfast burritos that feel like they should be eaten on a chilled but sunny day, with a hot mug of black coff...

 Jackfruit does a great job subbing for pork here.  This is a riff on this posole . Ingredients:  Group One: 3 guajillo chilis 4 cloves minc...

Ingredients For Soup: Group One: 1 small white onion, diced 4 cloves minced garlic 2 TB herbs de provence  Pinch kosher salt  Pinch crushed ...

I asked a teacher I know what her favorite ice cream was, in order to make it as an offering of a coping mechanism for back to COVID-schooli...

Make  Coconut Ice Cream with Chocolate Tahini , but instead of swirling in dark chocolate tahini, mix in chocolate covered almonds.  Or do b...

 This yumminess (which I failed to photograph) had three components:  (1) obviously pasta.  A kind with ridges to hold the pasta.  I made 2 ...

This winter, K discovered the magic of chocolate tahini after picking some up on a whim at the grocery store. When I last visited we were dr...

Figs start falling off trees mid summer in Phoenix, which means I'm always months too late when I ask my friend for figs off her parent&...

Looking at the prospect of a Phoenix summer without swimming pools, air conditioned restaurants, or air conditioned visits to other's ho...

K and I have often lamented that no matter how hard we try, we can never make chicken salad as perfect as our mom's.  While that may be ...

This is an email I sent to my family: " I just made the best cupcakes of my LIFE.   I used this recipe:  https:// sallysbaki...

Yet another recipe spurred on by my excitement for a fall-esque week in the desert.  We are in a week of fierce thunderstorms, and when I go...

There is a glorious, rare September thunderstorm happening in Phoenix.  Since it is flooding and I cannot go to yoga class, I am instead hap...

It's funny what things you pick up on from the people you live with over the years - this smoothie recipe has stuck with me from a roomm...

I was recently at K's house, and she's currently busier than most of us have ever busied.  I've decided to be a meddling little ...

Yet another guest post from our lovely cousin Jessica :  Summa summa summa time!  You know those hot summer days where nothing so...

My roommate Lili makes granola on a regular basis to prepare for the week ahead, and after a couple weeks of our house being filled with toa...

A lesson in utilizing this blog better for saving even the quickest recipe I came up with: I clearly remember utilizing this NYT recipe for ...

Here's a guest post by my lovely friend and fellow pie baker, Jess. She intros our friendship quite well, so I'll let her take it f...

I don't think I've yet extolled the virtues of the CRISPY. FRIED. EGG. on this blog, but you should go learn about it from Deb  and ...

This is a thing I like to eat for breakfast.  It's a small apple and a hard boiled egg, chopped up with other things that may inc...

Here is another delicious instant pot find.  I'm writing the recipe up here so I remember to make it again, but it's straight from ...

Tonight I made this soup  in the Instant Pot (which, when you're a vegetarian trying to get protein, is a pretty lifesaving legume-cook...

Years ago, I worked at a shelter for kids who'd crossed the border without an adult.  Not only were the kids from many different countr...

A roundup of sweets & treats that could warm your home this holiday week. I've been prepping away for all the family to arrive in A...

K told me a secret about a year ago - that Brie isn't the only cheese that gets 5x dreamier if you slip it in the oven before serving. ...

When I'm planning my week's lunches, I often shy away from salads because I convince myself that it won't be enough food, or tha...

Rich, easy and a show-stopper, this is a recipe that I dreamt up for our Thanksgiving meal, but that I think may actually belong on the Chri...