A Kitchen In Brooklyn

My poor husband. He's camping outdoors with students at his school for the next two nights, and we just had our first snow in weeks. And...

OK, so I don't have any pictures of the making of this, and I apologize -- I'm so scared of bread and baking that I wasn't at al...

Yeah. I got laid off on June 13. Not much to say about that, except I understand industry-wise why it happened, it totally sucked, an...

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I was on my honeymoon in New Zealand, where we had some lovely meals, including a lamb Greek salad...

So this is one of the best things I've made in a long time (canning aside, since I can't assess that until it's lived in its gl...

There's a little crisp in the air, and my mind turns to thoughts of soup. My very first "major" cooking experience (i.e., plan...

So I've started my canning for the year, and thus far have made only spicy dill pickles and hot sweet mustard pickles (I'll post ab...

Sorry for the absence, folks! I went off and got married, then unfortunately we had a loss in our family, so I haven't had a lot of ti...

This recipe comes from the Cafe Langley , a great Mediterranean restaurant in the little town of Langley, WA , where I grew up -- it's o...

Unlike some of the recipes that have been in my family for generations (or centuries, in the case of one that will remain a family secret...

Seriously, en papillote is one of my favorite ways to make fish. And it's so, so easy. Much easier than it sounds. Tonight, before the f...

Perhaps it's the season, or the fact that it hasn't been above 40 degrees in six weeks here in Sun Valley, or that squash from Id...

Sorry for the lack of photos -- I didn't go to this restaurant anticipating writing a review! Il Naso (no Web site) is an Italian-influe...

With a big bag of awesome organic carrots in the fridge, I couldn't stop with just one carrot recipe (by the way, in case you don't ...

So I tried four new things tonight -- two mostly from a recipe, and two from my head. The two from a recipe were basic white/wheat bread...