Recipes and Musings of Food and Life
I’m currently addicted to tomato confit. And because of that, you get two back-to-back recipes that incorporate it. I’ve been adding tomato confit to eggs. Throwing it on toast. Pouring it over chicken breasts. Putting it in my smoothies (kidding…..but am I?!) And now, adding it to one of my favorite all time meals…pasta with…
When I was a kid I would have hated this recipe. There are only a few things I remember telling my mom I absolutely refused to eat when I was younger and on that list was a thing I called “stewy tomatoes.” My mom would make a dish very similar to this with whole slow…
It’s been a minute since I posted a recipe. Okay, okay I didn’t post one for the entire month of December but…. HEY! December was a very busy month for me. Between catering some very big jobs and cookie orders, I was swamped. So no recipes for you. And then in January I had the…
Another very simple Trader Joe’s hack coming at cha! You people love one pan meals. And you love every recipe I list that’s from Trader Joe’s. So I put together another easy little weeknight meal for you based on those things. And this one is Greek. OPA! First things first…the lentils. If you aren’t…
Whenever we entertain, I always try to brainstorm some new or exciting things I can throw on my cheeseboard. I have a 3 foot cheese board that I’m absolutely obsessed with filling up for parties. I re-read that sentence and realize I sound like a cheese crazed lunatic but hey, MAYBE I AM. Judgers. Anyway,…
One of my biggest challenges in the kitchen every week is not wasting food. It’s something I’m trying to be better at, but it seems life is always getting in the way. I’ll have a very ambitious meal schedule planned every Sunday when we do all of our grocery shopping, and then the following Sunday I’ll…
I remember the first time I made braised short ribs. It was right around the time that I first started learning to cook and what I thought was going to be one of my most ambitious creations. I had short rib for the first time at a restaurant across from my first apartment here in…
Dust off that old beret and throw on your most Parisian looking black and white striped t-shirt, we’re making French Onion chicken! There are certain recipes that I know instantly are going to be successful. This was one of them. How can you go wrong with caramelized onions, cheese, and chicken in a rich savory…
I remember the first time I bought kale. It was around the time a few years ago that kale became the world’s trendiest green. It was everywhere. Hidden in smoothies. Made into chips. People were wearing shirts with catchy kale sayings to the gym. Every restaurant had added kale salads to their menus. I took…
Last month I got to spend some time in the Hamptons working with my friend Kara at her pop-up shop for Morris and Son’s, a men’s clothing store we have here in Chicago. I fell in love with it there. The shingled houses with gardens brimming with hydrangea…the farm-stands full of fresh local produce…the lobster…the…
It seems falls is in the air everywhere I turn. It’s hard to even leave the house without tripping over a pumpkin, locking eyes with a decorative front porch scarecrow, or standing up wind of someone’s pumpkin spiced something. *eyeroll* Please note: You will not be seeing many pumpkin spice recipes around here. Football is…
Sunday is usually either the day when I challenge myself and cook up something elaborate and extraordinary or it is the day when I feel like doing absolutely nothing at all, and we will order in food. On these particularly lazy Sundays…Asian cuisine is what I crave the most…namely Thai or Chinese delivery. Sometimes there…
Some couples fight about money. Some couples fight about fidelity. Some couples fight about whose turn it is to unload the dishwasher. And then there’s Kevin and I, who fight about steak. Yes, I know this sounds ridiculous. The trouble is, we just can’t seem to ever agree on what cut of steak to order….
Whenever we head home to Michigan to see Kevin’s parents I bring his mom a loaf of my banana bread. She will not share it with his dad. It is simply her loaf of bread and no one else is getting their paws on it! Every day she whittles away at it, slice by slice,…