My garden tomatoes are slowly dwindling, and so I sashay into your inbox with a dish heralding the last gasp of summer. When you have really good ingredients, like fresh seasonal tomatoes, I believe the simpler the preparation, the better. Hence this easy rustic...

A generous dusting of rain is covering the homestead as I write, skies grey and delightfully foreboding, plants graciously bending up towards the water, grateful for the break from this exceptionally dry summer. This storm spell won’t stick around for long, but it is...

The summer is coming to a close, but it’s still been hot enough to coat me with a sheen of sweat whenever I go out to the garden after 10 am, so I’ve been craving lighter and brighter meals lately to weather the heat....

I love savory pies. The buttery crumb, the salty filling, the alluring spices—it’s all good in my book. And tamale pie is a wonderfully southwestern take on such a dish. I’ve been making this for a while now, I first came across it years...

I’m bestowing you this elderberry syrup through a smoky haze, as the local wildfires have arrived about a month early this year. We are lucky in that our home is very airtight, so the smoke isn’t getting into the house, but my heart goes...

My raspberry bushes were subpar this year. I ended up with just about a cup of berries for 5 very large raspberry plants, which left me very sad indeed. But to be fair, I didn’t really prune them last/this year because I was so...

If you couldn’t tell from the continuation of my cherry kick from last week, I may have bought too many cherries. As such, I am plopping myself into your inbox with yet another delicious cherry recipe. Namely, this delightfully juicy, sweet, tangy, and spongey...

One of my favorite things about living in the Columbia River Gorge is the close proximity to delicious local orchards, cherries in particular. There’s a little town called Mount Hood Parkdale that has what’s known as “the fruit loop”, where you can drive around...

Summer has indeed sprung, and its once gentle sunshine has turned slightly murderous as the temperatures in my garden continue to climb far beyond what my plants prefer. My chamomile is particularly wounded, and all but three of those poor plants have dried out...

Yesterday at dusk I saw the first little fawn (i.e. baby deer) of the year. There were two, in fact, hobbling tenderly behind their mama along the ridge behind the backyard. I cannot get over how tiny their little heads are, (and the dusting...

Well hello again. I am writing to you after finally handing in the manuscript for my cookbook Modern Homestead (this past Sunday in fact.) After working on it for 18 months (including the proposal), it feels simultaneously exciting, liberating, and also a lingering sense...

This is a recipe I’ve had dog-eared for a few years now. I don’t recall how I first came across it, probably somewhere in the depths of the internet, but as a lover of both seafood and savory pastries, it really wedged its way...