Today’s recipe? Orzo pasta with roasted vegetables. I simply roasted a number of the ingredients I had around the kitchen, and pulled it all together on a big family-style platter. The star of the show is the delicata squash. I can’t get enough of it this time of year, and love that you can roast […]

I discovered a truly fantastic version of baked ziti in 2017 when I started cooking from Colu Henry’s Back Pocket Pasta. Big, hearty, family-style pastas are a great love of mine, but my baked ziti attempts were always just so-so. I struggled with overall cohesiveness, and the ricotta mixture always tended to bake up a […]

My mom received the recipe for The World’s Best Cookies fourth-hand. By the time I found the recipe in her three-ring recipe folder, it had notes on it written by three different women, along with a little floral stick-it note that said “really enjoyed dinner and spending time with you” from one of her lifelong […]

I have Molly Watson to thank for the inspiration here. It’s the best delicata squash recipe I know. Years ago she created a miso-harissa slather she used on roasted delicata squash. It was a combination of ingredients that had never crossed my mind, but sounded fan-tas-tic. Building on her idea, I decided to do a […]

The markets here are full of color right now. Gold, red, and orange beets. Pink-fleshed pomelos. Tiny purple-streaked artichokes. Deep, dark leafy greens. This week I filled my basket with my favorite eggs, a loaf of whole wheat seed bread, fresh tofu, lots of leeks and spring onions, chard with electric-pink stems, and one bunch […]