Today I Cooked...

One of the things I love about food is the connections it creates between people.  Around Christmas I wrote about how our family celebratio...

...... Yes, I am the vegetarian sister.... or I have been for the past 10 years and 10 months.   After a lot of agonizing that I won't ...

Just another beet-citrus combo: At the store, pick up a bunch of 4 smallish beets with nice tops (or, if you can't find any wit...

I am giving up all kinds of foods this month (trying out a form of paleo eating), and I expected the hardest to be sugar and cheese.  Not s...

Thick, well-spiced, smooth winter soup. Ingredients: 1 butternut squash and 1 sweet potato - roast the smithereens out of them ahead...

This is from Mark's Daily Apple and it's yummy!  (I forgot to take a picture till I'd nearly drank it all...) All you do ...

This is another recipe of Theya 's, adapted from Isa Chandra Moskowitz, and it is amazing.   Great texture, great heat, perfect winter ...

Chris made these for Thanksgiving and I forgot to share them.  They were the best hot drink I've ever had!  I drank two!  Recipe mak...

.....That is, "A Salted Mousse," or what we call it when Sarah makes the mousse slightly too salty.  AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Whe...

So I graduated, am working my first "real" job and am spending my year navigating the pitfalls and advantages that come with bein...

This year, I didn't make any big baking plans for Christmas. My favorite kind of baking is the kind I get to do with little sister A. Sa...

Sarah's husband Chris is spending his first Christmas in our home, and on the drive here he asked her what sorts of holiday traditions ...

A friend tipped me off to  this recipe , and I made them as holiday gifts for coworkers.  Not your run of the mill spiced nut recipe!  I a...

I'm almost fairly certain that you saw this recipe, saw the word pumpkin, and thought " Enough is enough. Thanksgiving is over.  Fa...

After three years of various people trying this spiced molasses pie, it was time for a post update. As it turns out, this pie is a deliciou...

As you well know by now, K and I long for true fall every year here in the desert and our favorite way of combatting that is through food.  ...

This soup was a happy accident, the result of leftovers from a riff on Katelyn's Italian Fried Garbanzos .  I will be making it again! ...

Last month I got married, and went to California for a week-long honeymoon road trip.  The end of the road was San Francisco, and one chill...

You know those ideas that are pathetically simple, yet leave you wanting to run around your house fist pumping and yelling about how awesom...

The stretch from late spring through mid-fall was sort of a doozy for us Today I Cooked sisters. After graduating from college, A got he...

I have not baked much over the past year. Especially not the kind of baking where I make random, super lazy guesses about how to adapt a rec...

This post comes to you from one of our favorite Wyomingites! Abby is a serious gardener, a serious economist, a serious lover of historica...

I think potato salad is great. I love it fancy, like I made it last summer, served warm with asparagus and dressed with tahini.  I like the ...

Mostly lifted from Heidi , but soooooo yummy I can't help but share.  I made this once a few weeks back and couldn't wait to get mo...

Every summer since I moved to Phoenix, sometime around August I have become obsessed with hot foods prepared at high temperatures. After P a...

Melt a stick (yeah....) of butter and toss in sage leaves, chopped chives, and the leaves of a few stalks of marjoram or thyme.  Heat on lo...

The CSA box is good for the creativity.  This week, we got kale, kohlrabi leaves, beet greens, and some others.  And this salad was my favo...

I almost posted this recipe sans anecdote, and then I remembered Chris, munching happily on a tortilla strip, asking, "So what did ...

Between the two of us, P and I have traveled to New Zealand, Mexico, New Mexico, Texas, California, Colorado, Montana, and Wyom...

For three summers in a row I've taught a study abroad program in New Zealand for undergraduate students from the U.S. I try to avoid rom...