Hallelujah, acorn squash is good (with RECIPE)
Jump to recipe A couple weeks ago, after decidedly NOT liking delicata, I promised that I’d give winter squash one last try with acorn squash, the squat, plump cousin of ol’ butternut. Given that it’s taken me a couple weeks to write my follow-up blog, it’s fair to say I dragged my feet on trying…
Delicata squash: Save sweets for the dessert table
Some of you may remember that around this time last year, I tried my first butternut squash. Actually, I tried my first three. And it didn’t go great, to say the least. (You’ll have to refer back to see just how “not great” it went.) But since my unfortunate experience with butternut squash had much…
Harissa for the win
OK so yet again, it’s been a minute since I showed my face around these parts. I take only partial responsibility. I’ve had the ingredients for harissa salmon stocked for FOUR WEEKS STRAIGHT, and Picky Boyfriend managed to weasel his way out of this dinner for FOUR WEEKS STRAIGHT. If there’s one thing I learned…
Tomato confit on everything
You can bet you’ve seen this picky eater enjoy plenty of pizzas, some chicken parm, and chips with salsa in her day. But despite my addiction to acid reflux flare-ups, I’ve never been a fresh tomato gal. If you follow a lot of food bloggers, you know that they drool over the summer tomato season.…
Eating humble (blueberry) pie
A few weeks ago, I declared in no uncertain terms that I do NOT like blueberries. Well my dear second-mother, Mama Lina, laughed in that declaration’s face and excitedly shoved a slice of blueberry pie in front of me at a party last week! I was very unenthused about trying this given my last experience…
Pardon my French macarons
Well I guess I have some ‘splaining to do. I kind of took an unintentional summer vacation from the blog. The truth is the week after I tried blueberries, I intended to keep my in-season produce train rolling by blogging about apricots. The problem was that I tried apricots and found them spectacularly mediocre. They…
Booze couldn’t save these blueberries
After a seven-year hiatus, I decided to give blueberries another chance, this time with a boozy twist. It turns out all the booze in the world can’t save blueberries for me.
The great garlic scape of 2021
While perusing Instagram for the 72nd straight minute the other day, I came across a post by The Kitchn illustrating what produce is in season right now. And out of the 8 items drawn, I’ve only eaten 4 of them! So this week, I started making my way down the list by trying what I…
Adding pork to the menu
Last week, I signed up for Caroline Chambers’ What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking newsletter. So naturally I looked nowhere else for this week’s dinners. It was a Caroline-filled week! The first two dinners were new recipes to me, but all the ingredients were old, familiar friends—a pickle-brined chicken sandwich and sesame…
Accepting that I might like salami
A couple weeks ago, in preparation for my forthcoming visit, a friend of mine texted me asking, “You eat Italian combo sandwiches?” to which I replied “Sure.” It was the perfect, innocent response that showed no signs of my intense hatred of pepperoni and other salamis and, instead, permitted me to still be the low-maintenance…
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