Spiced Apple Cider Bourbon Smash: Some drinks taste like a season. This one tastes like a Sunday afternoon in October, wool socks and all. I started making this cocktail three falls ago when I had leftover apple cider from a farm trip and a bottle of bourbon I kept forgetting existed. One shake later, I … Read more
Easy Homemade Chili Recipe: Most chili is just spicy tomato soup with a few sad crumbles of beef floating around in it. I know because I made that exact pot for years. Thin, a little flat, and always asking for one more shake of chili powder at the table. Then Silas and I started cooking … Read more
Honey cake has a bad reputation, and honestly, most of it is earned. Dry, dense, and a little too much like a spice rack. That was my opinion until I made this Rosh Hashanah honey cake in a tiny rental kitchen with an oven that ran hot. Silas ate three slices before it had even … Read more
Sweet Potato Sausage Soup: I have eaten three bowls of this soup in one sitting, and I have zero regrets. It started on a random Tuesday. I was browning smoked sausage in the biggest pot I own, and Silas wandered into the kitchen to “just check on things.” He checked on things four times. By … Read more
Healthy Football Snack: Game day snack tables are basically a graveyard of good intentions. Someone always brings a salad. Nobody touches it. Meanwhile the wing platter disappears in four minutes flat. So here’s a snack that splits the difference. It’s healthy enough that you don’t feel gross afterward, but it still gets demolished before halftime. … Read more
Silas walked into the kitchen last week, took one bite of this, and asked if we could just have it every Sunday from now on. I told him I’d think about it. I did not think about it. We’ve had it twice since then. If you’ve never made million dollar spaghetti before, here’s the short … Read more
Silas walked into the kitchen last Tuesday, took one sniff, and said “we’re never ordering Thai takeout again.” I wish I could say I was surprised, but honestly? I felt the exact same way the first time this pot hit a simmer. This coconut curry tilapia is one of those dinners that tastes like it … Read more
Silas is not a fish guy. He says this loudly, usually right before he eats every bite on his plate and asks if there’s more. That’s exactly what happened the night I made this Mediterranean baked fish. He came in from mowing the lawn, smelled the lemon and garlic hitting the oven, and suddenly he … Read more
Silas walked into the kitchen last Saturday, sniffed the air like a cartoon character, and said “okay THAT smells like a restaurant.” That was the day I finally nailed this stuffed omelet, and honestly, I’ve made it every weekend since. This isn’t your sad, flat, rubbery diner omelet. This one is thick, folded over a … Read more
Silas walked into the kitchen last week, took one sniff of the garlic and sun-dried tomatoes sizzling in the pan, and said, “okay, we’re never ordering Italian takeout again.” That’s the kind of reaction this pasta gets every single time. This creamy Tuscan chicken spaghetti is one of those dinners that looks like it took … Read more