As I type this I am getting ready to travel down to DC and then the Outer Banks with my family for a real beach house vacation where the beach is in the back yard (we’ve never really done one since we live 15-20 minutes from the beach here in NH). We are going with 9 […]
I can’t believe this is the first time I am posting the recipe for freeze & bake calzones on THO! It might be my longest running favorite in real life, and the recipe I get asked for the most. This is my go-to dish whenever anyone has a baby, surgery, or funeral and you want to send a meal. […]
“There is a prevailing theory that we need to know much more than we do to feed ourselves well. It isn’t true.” – Tamara Adler Oh, serendipity, I love you. I need to gush/share with you all that I just discovered the book The Everlasting Meal by Tamara Adler. It came in the mail on Monday, […]
I fell in love with this salad when I tried it at a pot luck a few years ago. I tracked the person who brought the dish to get the recipe. I fell in love with it again when I made it for a bbq last year. It perfectly compliments all grilled food and other salads, […]
Happy Memorial Day Weekend! We are so excited to have a long weekend with slow mornings, and time to linger over coffee, cartoons and these muffins. There is something about rhubarb, with its bright, slightly sour flavor that perfumes everything it touches. And the strawberries right now are so incredibly delicious and sweet that I had to […]
photo from Hearth and Harrow’s Etsy shop Happy Wednesday, lovely neglected blog readers! As I mentioned in my last post, all of my writing time is going to finished my food memoir and I have been really busy with freelance work in Coastal Home Magazine and New Hampshire Magazine, so you can check me out in those […]
My dad’s very favorite dessert was Lemon Meringue Pie. When I was little, he would regularly come home from the grocery store with one, and we always served it on his birthday. So I think it may be a little nod to him that made me want to try to combine these flavors in the gorgeous Pavlova […]
Did you ever read Bel Canto by Ann Patchett? There is this line in the book where two characters who are falling in love are in the kitchen and peeling an eggplant, and she writes something like, “then everything lovely about the eggplant fell to the ground.” She is just one of my favorites. How gorgeous […]
Happy Cinco De Mayo! Or as we say in the US, Happy Reason to Eat Tacos and Drink Margaritas (as if we needed one). I am super excited to share my new favorite cocktail. I haven’t done many cocktail posts, a travesty I hope to remedy, since I have recently gotten into a little mixologist […]
Let’s talk about mashed potatoes, can we? I just love them so much. Sitting next to braised meats, or roasted poultry, filled with flavor combos that make us swoon. (And you have to see the new flavor combos listed at the end of this post that I have tried recently.) Sour cream and chive might be […]