I’m a fan of soups, and my favorite is tortilla. This roasted tomato tortilla soup is a different version of the usual broth based version with black beans and corn, and is easy and delicious. It’s also a great way to use up tomatoes that aren’t quite the best — you know, anything from a [...]
I don’t often make clarified butter. Usually it’s when I have extra butter leftover from holiday baking or I’ll see something that would be delicious fried in butter. Clarified butter is butter that is cooked to remove all of the water with the milk solids removed. A little longer, and you get ghee. Why do [...]
Garlic can be a lot of things — sharp and spicy when raw, intensely flavored when chopped and sautéed, or in the case of this garlic confit, rich and mellow. If you’re a garlic lover, then this recipe is one you should try right now. It’s super easy, requires 2 ingredients, and turns a bulb of garlic [...]
I eat a lot of spinach. I put it in smoothies, have made it into appetizers, and sometimes even eat it as a main course. My favorite way to eat it, however, might be this easy, 3 ingredient (okay 5 if you count salt and oil!) side dish. It comes together in minutes, and goes [...]
I’ve never been a fan of tofu, and tempeh has always been a hard sell to me. I’ve tried cooking it in a bunch of ways, and while I’ve never hated it, I’ve never made it in a way that makes me want to make it again. Unlike homemade seitan, which I love, love, love. [...]
Smoothies are an almost daily thing for me, but I tend to get bored with the same things. Don’t get me wrong — bananas, berries, and spinach is perfectly acceptable, but sometimes it’s just not enough. I try to add different ingredients and flavorings to keep it interesting, as well as ramp up the nutrients, [...]
I am not gluten free. Let me repeat that: I am not gluten free. I like bread too much to be gluten free. I write a lot of Paleo recipes, which are gluten free, and while I’ll pass on a lot of them, sometimes I come across one that’s pretty good. Like these gluten [...]
I love sour cherries, but they are hard to find. A couple weeks ago I went to Northern Michigan with my family, and was lucky enough to pick up a few quarts at a farmer’s market. I froze them, and immediately started dreaming up ways to use them all. My first thought was jam. [...]
Baking a potato seems like something that should be easy. You pop a potato in the oven until it’s tender right? Well, right, but not always. Do you put it in foil? On a pan? Does a higher temperature bake it faster? Um, no, no, and yes, but that’s not necessarily better. If your goal [...]
When I was a kid, my favorite cake was the rainbow chip kind. It was just sprinkles in the boxed cake mix, but I loved it. I know now that it’s all the same, and that you can’t really taste the sprinkles that are baked in the cake (although, full disclosure: I don’t know when [...]
Here's all the social media sites people tell me I need to be on. You can (kinda) find me on these. The only one guaranteed to get you a quick response is email, so try that first.