new york bagels
Happy Sunday! Have a bagel! Why in the world should you ever make your own bagels? Well, have you ever plucked, sliced, smeared, and devoured a warm, crackly-crusted bagel from a fresh batch...one ...
sweet potato, corn, and jalapeño bisque
Chilly fall weather snuck in out of nowhere, and before I knew it we were eating a pot of soup. Bring on the blankets and sweaters and scarves! You dust off your biggest soup pot, crank up the ...
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 ...