I don’t know why, but for some reason I love leeks. As far as I know my mom never really cooked with them so it’s not like I’ve got some wonderful childhood memories tied up with the smell of gently simmering leeks, (like I do with spaghetti sauce.) They look like big, fat overgrown scallions
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I Have a Thing for Leeks
April 19, 2011 3 Comments Short URLcooking, dinner, family, food, ingredients, recipes, vegetablesDinner, In the Kitchen, Ingredients, Recipes
“You’ve Got a Funny Way of Saying ‘That was delicious.'”
Sometimes dinner is just dinner – nothing fancy or extravagant or particularly exciting. But still, it’s always nice to hear, “That was a good dinner.” Growing up, my mom’s standard way to cook chicken was to put the bone-in breasts in a big frying pan and cover them with a ton of onions and a
April 13, 2011 2 Comments Short URLcooking, dinner, family, food, menu planning, recipes, seasonal, vegetablesDinner, In the Kitchen, Ingredients
Comfort Food Makes the Best Leftovers
Leftovers get a mixed review in our house: Joel won’t eat them unless there’s pasta involved, Madison will eat them if I disguise them or they’re Asian-food related and I only like them in wintertime. The pets take what they can get, (except the cat – she’s pickier than Joel.) I pack my lunch three
January 12, 2011 1 Comment Short URLdinner, food, ingredients, menu planning, pasta, seasonal, vegetables, winterIngredients, Seasonality
The 12 Days of Christmas: Annual Christmas Parade
This is actually the first year I’ve experienced my town’s Christmas Parade and let me tell you – it’s everything you would expect from a small town parade. The whole town lined Main Street (yes, it really is called Main Street) and I think there were at least 12 fire trucks, 10 marching bands, every
December 8, 2010 0 Comments Short URL12 days of christmas, christmas, cooking, family, food, menu planning, protein, recipes, roasting, seasonal, side dishes, starch, vegetablesDinner, In the Kitchen, Ingredients, Recipes, Seasonality, Winter
Super Bowl for Cooks
It dawned on me as I spent hours combing through cookbooks, blogs, tweets and websites that Thanksgiving – more than any other holiday – could be considered the Super Bowl for cooks. Like a championship quarterback, cooks exert a lot of energy just preparing for the big day. We spend hours imagining the perfect menu.
November 22, 2010 7 Comments Short URLbaking, cooking, dinner, family, food, menu planning, recipes, roasting, seasonal, side dishes, starch, Thanksgiving, vegetablesAutumn, Dessert, Dinner, In the Kitchen, Menu Planning, Recipes, Seasonality
Chard, Really?!?
When I realized that people other than my family were actually reading my posts, I thought, “crap…I need to start writing more.” Then I remembered that I hadn’t really shared a Madison story yet. I already had a pretty good idea of which of my dishes were her favorite, but I thought I would ask
November 8, 2010 1 Comment Short URLdinner, food, menu planning, recipes, seasons, side dishes, vegetablesAutumn, Dinner, In the Kitchen, Recipes, Seasonality
Cooking For Madison 