Today I Cooked...

When I first sat down to write this post, I was at the end of one month in New Zealand, where I was teaching 35 undergrads about health, en...

It's peaches and tomatoes time again! Meaning my diet is about to telescope itself into one happy parade of peaches and tomatoes , eat...

Filling: Sautee in olive oil: 1 medium mild white onion, chopped 2 chopped garlic cloves 1 bunch curly green kale, torn handful pine nuts le...

It's been raining cold rain for 3 days in Denver, so for a friend's b-day dinner tonight, I just wanted big pots simmering on the st...

Sitting at my sunny table with 2 slices of lightly toasted sourdough, topped with: Tiny baby farmer's market grape tomatos, halved small...

Generally, this is a recipe blog, and not an all gluten free blog either. However, an old childhood friend of mine just wrote to say she had...

As simple as it sounds and as beautiful as it looks, especially when paired with sweet cream butter and grated radishes on toast. Roast your...

After a long hiatus, P and I are back in the food cookin' game. Actually, we've been back for awhile, but since I've never been ...

This roasted-tomato goodness was loosely inspired by a soup from Watercourse restaurant here in Denver, though I took it in a richer and cr...

A typical phone call in our family goes like this: Daughter: HiMomHowareIstheweathercrappythereIt'sreallyhothereandPeterissogrumpybecau...

It's "old staples" time again! This was the rice that powered my college career (well, that and a much-more-embarrassing dish...

Wanted cookies, had no eggs, did this instead: 1/2 c butter (1 stick) 3/4 cup brown sugar 2 cups oats 1/2 can canned peaches, chopped 1/2 ts...

This is the kind of peculiar thing I end up eating when I'm left to my own devices with just the already-existing contents of my kitchen...

5 hard boiled eggs 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt 1/8 cup spicy brown mustard splash pickle juice Heavy doses of paprika & dill Salt & p...

Satiating, almond buttery goodness mixed with flax and sesame has quickly made these my favorite post-salad treat at lunch. The recipe is qu...

After learning how to create homemade ravioli in this guest post, and about papaya salads and chayote quesadillas in her last posts, I think...

I took a quick (and overdue) trip to see family in the Northwest last weekend and gave my aunt's shiny new kitchen a spin. A wiser cook...

After two days full of bratwursts, canned soup, s'mores, peanut butter, beer, prickly pear ice cream (!!) and tortilla chips, P and I ne...

Guest post number two from our favorite bread-bakin', scone creatin' vegetarian! This time she brings us a crispy crunchy citrusy sa...

March sings of Easter candy, of white chocolate bunnies and peanut butter eggs. I loved Easter as a kid, probably, as Mommy Blogger pointed ...

To me, these were a dense coconutty-almondy dream, but P's gluten-adjusted palate was less pleased. If serving to those looking for typi...

Gluten free broth is expensive and gluten free stock is near impossible to find, so I make all of my soups without either of those flavor-he...

More having people over, more racking my brains at the store, not having planned ahead, for a recipe I've made enough times to remember ...

Just a quick note. As often happens, I ran late on planning dinner for some folks last week and figured I'd just make a risotto. Didn...

Hey readers, meet Kay, a wizard with veggies and parentheses: Hello, all! My name is Kay. I live in England (though I am an American, in ...

I can't eat yogurt without a crunchy topping. The plain greek variety is a staple at our house--mixed in equal parts with pumpkin to spr...

These wonderful cookies are fluffy even though they have no gluten, hold together well even though they have no eggies, and are buttery even...

I've made variations on this crispy "pizza" for years, starting from a recipe in one of Mollie Katzen's cookbooks, but I f...

Another Bittman adaptation, though I have seriously adjusted his levels of flavoring and used my own veggie additions, so hopefully I'm ...

Cleaning out the kitchen cupboards today, I found a forgotten packet of nori sheets. When faced with excess nori, there is only one thing ...

This would make a wonderful brunch dish. For P and I, it was just a nice dinner. Boil 2 and 1/2 cups of water, and stir in 1 cup of polenta...

This is barely even a recipe, I know. But it is what I cooked tonight, and it's a nice simple thing if you're ever stumped by exce...

I always hesitate to post simple meal ideas, but then again the simple things are sometimes the hardest to conjure up in a moment of hunger....

To spice things up a little, and to compensate for any gaps in our own cooking creativity, we're startin' up some guest posting! Aft...

On my birthday, some friends and I got together to eat some spaghetti. One of the boys requested that we make meat sauce, as opposed to jus...

This should read [so damn hot and undercooked its inedible posole],but luckily for you, I'm stubborn and willing to boil and boil for se...

Or rather, today I tried to cook orange butter cookies, but the result was a disaster. I spent a few hours in the kitchen to have cookies ...

Cupcakes were trendy, and now they're overdone. I know. But, you see, I don't know how to make a double-layer cake. (Well, not neatl...

...but I made them delicious. I feel kind of bad wasting our 100th post on something like this, but oh well. I baked them with lemon olive o...

Last year sometime (yes.... last year), in a fit of creativity and good cooking intentions, I preserved a lemon . Since then, the lemon has...

Before we get started here, I would just like to pause and say that this is what this soup tastes like to me: Yes, that's right. M...

After dinner Saturday night I went and joined up with some people at a bar. If you go dancing and do it right (read: so much dancing ther...

Mulling over what to feed some dinner guests yesterday, I decided that I pay too little attention to some of my very beautiful cookbooks---y...

I have a shiny new candy-apple green kitchenaid artisan stand mixer that can do magic things. There, it's out. I've been holding thi...

This is one from memory - something I used to make ALL the time and had utterly forgotten. "Not forgetting recipes" is the name ...

After being away for the weekend, I came home to a veggie drawer with an awful lot of crunchy green goodness at risk of becoming mushy green...

Roomie #1 and I just baked Twice Baked Squash Potatoes from my friend Melissa's blog, Extended Shelf Life. We replaced the cottage che...

For Christmas, I received several cookbooks from my sisters. Hooray! This recipe from Robin Miller at Food Network served as a delightful ...

I don't like to mix talk of food and finances, but in an unending quest--failure?-- to save money, I'm trying to buy produce that wi...

When I first got back to Phoenix, I had another group of friends over for yet another night of Rock Band. My friend D really wanted guacamo...

Ever since I had a gluten free turkey bolognese at a hip new restaurant that a hip friend of P's took us to, I've been wanting to ma...

Er...crackers. That's right, pillowy gluten free crackers made using no expensive flours. Angela at ohsheglows.com calls these vegan che...

A nice Italian-esque dish for those celiac sprue or gluten intolerant folks stuck in old hometowns with limited food resources. If mushy cor...

...orange rind, lemon juice, agave nectar, cumin and a splash of soy sauce. Cooked in the wok over high heat. No biggie, but YUM.

For my last night in Phoenix, several friends came over and we had a girls' night filled with Rock Band, trying on clothes, and of cours...

A sunny Sunday in December - good day to hit up an Asian market for the makings of this brightly flavored, colorful soup. (Especially sinc...

My roommates and I had ourselves a little Christmas party, so of course good eats were essential. We chose this recipe for Stromboli f...