By the time you read this I’ll be in the woods on another foraging adventure. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a bit obsessed with mushrooms, they’re one of my favorite ingredients and I’m very lucky to live in a place where...
Several weeks ago I tried a new snack from Costco called “Cashew Clusters” and became completely obsessed with it. It is amazingly and utterly delicious! They’re these kind of granola chunks with cashews, pumpkin seeds and almonds in them. I decided to try to...
Last week I went home to Portland for a few days, and while I was there my Mom gave me a stack of old recipes she had held onto for years and years. I went through the little hand-written notes and random clippings and...
Late last week I saw that a shipment of blood oranges had come into the supermarket, I’d only had them once before and loved their flavor, so I decided to try and make something with them. Blood oranges in a pastry or dough just...
So, remember last post when I bought a pound of shredded coconut? Well, I wasn’t sure how long coconut lasts before it goes bad, so I just decided to try and use as much of it as possible as soon as possible. Thus, coconut...
On a recent trip to Surfas, (my favorite specialty ingredient supply store), I stumbled across a one pound bag of unsweetened coconut shards. I didn’t purchase them at the time because I didn’t know what I would make with them. They stuck...
Squash is hands-down my favorite vegetable, and my favorite member of the squash family is pumpkin, but it is out of season now so I used my other go-to, which is summer squash. There’s a ton of different ways to use this little vegetable,...
The sweet smell of a rose is one of my favorite scents of all the garden’s flowers, and it’s also one of my favorite flavors. Growing up my family had a large rose garden lining the pathways in our backyard, and walking through it...
What to do with a paper bag full of lemons….I was faced with this dilemma at work this week when one of my coworkers gave me a bag of lemons that they had picked from their lemon tree which had been over-producing to an...
This lemon potato chicken is one of my favorite recipes that my mom makes back home. My parents grow their own Greek oregano and it just has such a wonderful and aromatic taste to it. I started growing an herb garden out on my...
I have always been a fan of pecan pie and, after having the single best piece of my life at the Afterwords Cafe in DC, I’ve been on a long and strenuous mission to find the perfect recipe. I had asked my friend Audrey...
