With the end of Birthday Week 2018, fall weather finally arrived. Yay!!! I know that most people love fall, so there’s nothing revolutionary going on here. But it means I get to cook foods that just feel wrong when it’s hot outside. And that is cause for celebration, no matter how common the glee. First,…
Category: Cooking
Birthday Love
It turns out that when you don’t post on your blog in 8 months, a lot of things happen. So the little cutie on the top right was born, then the handsome guy in the bottom right corner had a birthday (hence the lobster and the cake), and the little guy on the top left…
Snow Day Salad?
Snow days don’t automatically bring to mind memories of great salads, right? Right. But I plan our meals a week at a time, so it just happened that we had one recipe left when we found ourselves snowed in for the weekend–Spinach and Barley Salad with Grilled Pork (a la Country Living). I know,…
Blueberry Cake with Lemon Buttercream Icing
Okay, so mid-November ’tis not the season for blueberries and lemon buttercream, but Scott’s mom recently found this recipe and passed it on to me. I couldn’t resist trying it out as soon as possible. The occasion? Birthdays, of course. There were a few birthdays among our friends, and our favorite almost one-year-old is on…
Niçoise Salad
At our house, we try to buy birthday gifts without going hog wild (read: we don’t to spend our life savings on birthday presents, not even for ourselves). But there are still good things to be had for your birthday. During birthday week, you get to pick the menu for dinner every night, you get…
Zucchini Corn Fritters (A.K.A. Summer and Childhood and Nice Things)
In addition to chasing around a now-crawling baby, we’ve done some cooking this summer. My (very local) farmer did some corn-growing, and we combined our efforts to cook some corn from the yard. Lots of it. One of my favorite recipes for this summer’s corn bounty was for zucchini corn fritters. When I was a…
Giada’s Green (and GOOD) Carbonara and Some Olive Oil Adventures
First, I’m going to torture you with stories of my day. Then I’ll point you towards super delicious food. It looks like this: But before I get to the food… It was a nice day today. I had a short to-do list, which I thought would guarantee a completed list and a sense of well-being…
Small, but valuable. 