The first time I tried to carve a pumpkin, I was shocked by how difficult it was and ended up having to draw the face on with a Sharpie. All those Halloweens I’d watched my dad do it in the backyard, it had looked easy; he, and the job of carving those big pumpkins, suddenly [...]

Wait, what is this? Oh riiight, it’s that soup I made back I have no idea when. But I remember it being good, real good, like a peanut soup but with almond butter instead of peanut butter, aromatic of fresh ginger and lime, and with collard greens and sweet potatoes thrown in for…a bit of [...]

Tortilla Soup is a movie. It’s also a soup.

I have a huge pink recipe binder full of clippings from magazines and newspapers and annotated printouts from blogs and emails, as well as handwritten recipes on index cards from grandmothers, but I’m pretty sure this is the only recipe in there that I actually typed up as a Word document, printed out, and three-hole [...]

This soup is simplicity itself. Leeks, potatoes, water, salt, pepper, a smidgen of totally unnecessary butter (although it does make everything better), and an optional sprinkling of fresh herbs (which I opted out of). That’s IT. It’s recipes like these that make you really appreciate your raw materials and the incredible amount of flavor just one star [...]

When I was putting together my recipe index the other day, I was kind of horrified. I mean, I know that I made carrots and spinach and fish and bok choy last week and they just didn’t make it to the blog (you feel so cheated right now…I know), but what must you people think? What [...]