pimento cheese
Sweet, sweet, Southern pimento cheese. My dad's job took our family from Colorado to North Carolina when I was 11. There are a couple of memories that stand out from that time: looking out the ...
vegan banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
I need to add an Aggression category. There's a recipe in Eli's great-aunt's cookbook for Aggression Cookies that I've mentally bookmarked. The opportunity to try them hasn't yet arisen, though. ...
black bean burgers
I can be such a slacker. Last week, I had to move into the guest room because a pile of laundry (clean, I swear!) had taken over the bed. I subsisted on packages of Trader Joe's chile and cheese ...
savory tart
I was thisclose to grabbing the t-rex cookie cutter. Didn't want to freak anyone out, though. I think I made the right decision. This is a beloved savory tart from the good old days of the ...
cinnamon sugar doughnut muffins
It's rare that a recipe will make its way to this site right away. Usually I just dig into the photo archives to see what catches my eye. (Nope, I did not make fig bars followed by gluten-free ...
fig, blueberry, and almond cake
I'm a lucky girl, and not just because a lovely, rustic colander filled with Gawgia figs and freshly-plucked blueberries mysteriously made its way onto the kitchen counter. I'm feeling ...
fig, berry, and spinach salad with poppy seed dressing
This particular salad is a spin-off of the greatest salad of all time (in my ever so humble opinion.) Need I say more? I hope not. I've got nothin'. *crickets* Oh, wait, yes. One ...
fig and raspberry cheesecake bars
Did you know that figs play nicely with almonds, anise, brown sugar, caramel, cheese, chocolate, cinnamon, cinnamon basil, citrus peel, coconut cream, Cointreau, cornmeal, cream, cream cheese, ...
fig bars, part deux
Do you know or maybe even love someone who has celiac disease? Perhaps you should give them a hug. Or, you could present them with these fig bars. And, yeah, maybe give them a hug, too. ...
fresh fig bars
Figs will always bring to mind a late summer evening spent at an enchanting victorian house tucked just in the woods behind a sprawling pasture. Years ago, it was lovingly hacked to pieces and ...
vegan morning glory muffins
I made this particular recipe for a particular bakery owner who shall not be named. He wanted to market them as "Vegan Schmegan" muffins, but ran the business into the ground and fled town before ...
chocolate icebox cake (from scratch)
I made this cake for my mom's (belated) birthday, which seems fitting since she taught me how to make it, and her mom taught her. Is there a better way to say that? Probably. Thanks, mom, for ...
rice noodle salad with scallions and herbs
I'm posting this recipe for a couple of reasons: One, the weather channel is telling me it feels like 106 out there, and I'm going to take their word on that one. This recipe requires barely any ...
walnut brownies with browned butter
We headed up to South Carolina for the weekend to help Eli's mom sort through some memorabilia. Rather, Eli went to help sort through some stuff; I went along to prevent a certain 25-pound ...
quinoa cakes with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil
I love quinoa. I loved the idea of quinoa cakes. I loved it so much, I tried a recipe from Gourmet twice, and both times the cakes turned out dry and bland. Had I not happened upon a fantastic ...
carrot-cheesecake with pineapple flowers
I made this cake waaaay back in June for E's birthday. I figured I should get it posted now 'cause before we know it his 30th will be rolling around and senility will be setting in, as he likes ...
banana bread
I kicked off my blog with a post in which I swore off banana bread forever. A string of failed recipes had left me jaded. Well. I should have listened to Zack. He told me I should try ...
jalapeno-cheddar frittata with homefries
One of the very few benefits of working the night shift is the ability to pad around the kitchen in your underwear pajamas while the rest of the working world is slogging bleary-eyed through their ...
hummus and pickled carrots
I was flipping through some old issues of Saveur when an article on Jerusalem caught my eye. It featured vivid scenes of a bustling shuk, or market: shakshuka--eggs poached in a spicy tomato ...
blackberry, lime, and honeydew tart
This was supposed to be the sixth and final post in a series of frozen desserts, but the pictures of mint ice cream I took last year are hurting my eyeballs. Fresh mint ice cream is awesome. There's ...
cafe affogato
Cafe affogato translates to drowned coffee. Drowned in coffee. That's how I'd like to go out, if I must. This isn't so much a recipe as it is a public service announcement. You must should try ...
vegetable potstickers with dippin’ sauce
I have two more frozen treats for you, but I feel like I need to throw in a savory recipe to balance things out here. Sugar rush resumes tomorrow! Wheeeee! These potstickers could be an ...
yogurt pops
We're getting deep into summer here; 'tis the season of popsicles and blackberries and cherries. By chance, I happened upon a recipe for yogurt pops at orangette and a stack of dinosaur-themed ...
root beer ice cream
To continue the six days of frozen deliciousness, I bring to you...(blurry) root beer ice cream! If you don't have an ice cream maker... I'm so sorry. Please don't hate me. Does this ...
limoncello mint sorbet
I dug into my photo archives and came out with six days' worth of frozen treats. (Please forgive any questionable photography.) Last time: strawberry lemon sorbet. Next up: limoncello mint ...
strawberry-lemon sorbet
Though the window air conditioning unit we recently purchased has most likely saved our lives, we're still not quite immune to the evil temperatures lurking just outside our door. And this is ...
strawberry shortcakes
It was a beautiful afternoon for a country drive out to Washington Farms to pick strawberries. As I was walking down the dusty road from my car to their open-air white picket stand I could smell ...
coconut mango cake with fresh strawberries
Let's say you went on a 100 kilometer bike ride through the countryside. Let's say it's your birthday. Let's say you're a lunatic who raced 80 laps around a 1 kilometer course at speeds approaching ...
oven-baked french fries
Did you know that you can have fresh, crispy french fries at home without frying? Yeah, you probably did. It took me 27 years to figure that one out. There are a couple of recipes out there ...
chocolate stout cupcakes w/dulce de leche frosting
This cupcake was my creation for a certain contest that required the utilization of chocolate plus one or more of ingredients off a large list that included things like beets and bee pollen and ...
tomato potato focaccia
I bake bread almost every night. Last night I made, deep breath, seven loaves of mixed grain, five cinnamon raisin swirl, eight white, ten whole wheat, six cranberry pecan, five jalapeno ...
spaghetti with browned butter and mizithra cheese
That last post made me all nostalgic. I'd like to do some posts on family and food and memories; all I need to do is traverse a couple hundred miles on the trail of some old photos. No biggie. ...
oatmeal chocolate cherry pecan cookies
Reader, meet one of my favorite cookies. The fact that this cookie made it to the favorites list took me by surprise; I've never been an oatmeal lover. Must have been the butter and brown sugar ...
quinoa taco salad
I could tell you all about quinoa and its significance to the ancient Incas and their recipe for War Balls; about its complete amino acid profile and impressive disease-fighting capabilities. ...
chard with garlic and lemon
Bunches upon bunches of bright, beautiful rainbow chard sat smack dab in the middle of the produce section, on sale no less. Enticing, enchanting, how could I refuse their colorful, Summery lure? ...
homemade almond milk
One of my favorite ways of harnessing almonds' nutritive superpowers is grinding them into almond milk. The store-bought stuff is fine, yes, but this homemade version is pure, smooth, rich and ...
chocolate peanut butter
The lovely Deb, of smittenkitchen.com, always posts great recipes but there are a couple that stand out in my mind; recipes that lured me in with just a picture, induced wild fits of drooling and ...
espresso granita
This recipe is based on espresso. Espresso is pretty great. Slushies are pretty great too. Espresso + slushy = unstoppable force of awesome greatness. So, you stir together some espresso or ...
gluten-free peanut butter cookies
It all started with a simple recipe. 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 egg Stir. Bake. Eat. So easy, I had a pan in the oven in under 10 ...
asparagus, tomato, and orzo salad
Asparagus is in season 'round here. 'Round here being Georgia, by the way. We like to either lop off bits of words or smoosh 'em all together 'round heeyuh in these parts, ya'll. I'm not a native ...
crème brûlée
Hi there. Here we are, around post #11 or so. I haven't told my people about this here blog yet. I'm a little nervous. Nervous that it's going to be like a teenage journal, in that when you're ...
blackened tofu caesar salad
The caesar salad comes from the gorgeous Zuni Cafe Cookbook. The blackened tofu is mine, all mine. I'll do my best to write coherent instructions for it. I'm new to the whole ...
homemade boullion
That crazy looking concoction up there is homemade boullion. A brilliant, though seemingly obvious in retrospect, alternative to those odd, bland, dehydrated boullion cubes you can purchase at ...
black bean chili
I'd intended to post this soup as a nice recipe to bridge the gap between the chill of early spring and the hell that most people refer to as Summer. A warm, hearty chili complemented by a ...
gluten-free crackers
I was padding around kitchen the other night, tunes on, things happening in the oven, dishes everywhere. The contents of the coffee grinder had been evacuated in favor of some quinoa and millet; ...
spinach, strawberry, and feta salad with poppy seed dressing
I'll keep it short. If I knew when I was going to die and my last meal, for some sick, inexplicable reason had to be a salad, this would be
orange-cornmeal cake with strawberry-rhubarb compote
Spring has sprung, and that means a couple of things. Strawberries. Rhubarb. Feeling like a creep because you're crouched in the azalea bushes with a camera when the FedEx guy pulls ...
cream cheese cinnamon rolls
Ahhh. Hello, Cinnamon Rolls. I remember the morning I made you as if it were yesterday. The year was 2010. The month was April. The time was a hair before the buttcrack of dawn on a dark, ...
spicy mac and cheese
There are some crazy things happening with the colors in this photo that I can't even begin to address: But I needed it to show you a couple of things. Like...crackly, cheesy crust. Creamy ...