I planted a truly massive amount of green bush beans this year. We had the garden space, and can basically never get enough beans, so why n...

The CSA box demands that we eat as many vegetables as humanly possible all summer long. This is simultaneously great and a problem. Salad...

OKAY. We have just finished hosting John's mom and our niece for a full week of running around the SF bay area and points beyond. Much ...

Strawberry banana: perhaps not the most creative smoothie combination of all time. But hey! It's still tasty and easy, and it's cert...

Because there's no reason to stop eating soup just because it's May. I am doing nineteen things at once lately, so soup is actual...

I've been thinking about the combination of squash and beans for a few weeks now. Black beans and sweet potato are a natural match in t...

There were sugar snap peas at the farmer's market! Yay! I had to make the most of them by eating a few raw. They were very nice that ...

We've talked about rösti a few times before. This Swiss concoction is essentially a big pan-fried shredded potato cake, not unlike has...

If you're careful, $1.85 at our farmer's market can get you this. Three zucchini, six pea pods, one tiny carrot, and an armful of ...

Okay! Things have clearly been busy at our house. Everything we eat lately seems to be something I've written about before. Pasta fagio...

And this weekend our fridge died. We are having the best possible holiday season around here, let me tell you. The repair guy is coming...

It's December! Time to break out the nog! I tend to veer away from the traditional "nog + brandy + rum" concoctions as long...

Contrary to a variety of expectations, I did NOT pickle the last two heads of fennel that came our way in the CSA box. Instead, I chopped o...

A few weeks ago I found cans of tuna for practically the lowest price ever -- 66 cents each -- and grabbed a stack for future nearly-instan...

When you're canning tomato sauce , as I obviously have been, sometimes you end up with a little bit of sauce left over. What to do wi...

Someone in our neighborhood had an epic apricot harvest, and this is the result, at least at our house. Hello, fruit! It's a standard...

It's supposed to be 85F out today, so why don't we talk about soup? That sounds totally rational, right? We got a huge bunch of a...

AKA: "what to do with that eggplant you found in your crisper." On the surface, this looks like a very ordinary plate of spaghe...

It's spring! I don't know about you, but I want as many vegetables as I can possibly get my hands on. So I went to the farmer's...

I don't know about you, but I have been SUPER BUSY lately. For the past couple days I've been working setup for Stitches West, a gi...