We've been eating a lot of pinto beans lately. This is a thing that happens when you buy a 5-lb bag of said pinto beans and cook huge b...

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...

We are just barely back from a whirlwind trip to a family wedding on the Florida panhandle. We flew into New Orleans, stayed for a day of b...

I had never heard of Zürcher geschnetzeltes until last week, when someone mentioned it randomly on ravelry. The translation is just "...

In the interest of cleaning out our food stash while also eating a variety of delightful dinners, I made some toor dal the other day. This ...

More comforting food at its finest! Winter is definitely the best time for those dishes that require you to run the oven for multiple hou...

Everyone needs some arts and crafts to start off the holiday right. We ate a lot of Paper Doll Parade's maple rosemary roasted nuts wh...

Spring means ramp season across much of the US, and the foodbloggers are starting to sit up and take notice. Ramp chimichurri , ramp pasta...

It's raining! Rain in California! Fall is actually here! HOORAY! This is clearly the best possible time of the year to make a giga...

After roasting my chicken the other day, I made chicken broth. This is super easy, if you've never done it. All you do is chuck your...

It's fall. Okay, it's technically fall. That doesn't mean much here in NorCal--hey, we didn't really have a summer either...

Peasant food is the best food. Let's make some! I actually had this mix of onions, apples, precooked chicken sausage, and cabbage quite...

So after our sojourn at the cabin with a kitchen stocked in Le Creuset I have to say our desire for enameled cast iron cookware went up pre...

Like many people, John and I have a set of different staple foods we can throw together at a moment's notice. One of the top contenders...

So I finally got enough distance from the meat overload of several months ago to cook with our freezer chicken and its broth. Our refriger...

So John was sick, and now I am not feeling so great either. Clearly it is time for an abundance of invalid food. Soba in broth veg broth (w...

I've been feeling low-level crappy for a couple weeks. My taste buds got kind of screwed up, and not a lot of food seemed even a little...

Man, why doesn't everyone eat oats like this? Oats for dessert are almost better than oats for breakfast, in a creamy rice puddingy sor...

I don't know, you guys. It's been so busy around here for weeks and weeks. In the past month we've had one weekend without eit...