Category: nut-free / gluten-free
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Buried Treasure (Flounder with Baby Greens, Caramelized Onions, & Parmesan) & I’m Back
Hello! NO, you didn’t imagine it – it has been a while…Reason? You want reasons? Okay… My oldest son and I went on a volunteer trip to Central America – great experience, rewarding, challenging, fun, and yes, recipes to follow… Middle son went back to school, which has been a transition for everyone… And I… Read more
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Deep Dish Salmon, Kale, and Potato Pie & Revisited Recipes
Spring in the UK comes early, and when I brought my daughter to see her godmother in London it was a flurry of blossoms, green stubbled grass, and muddy tromps in borrowed boots. We had a gaggle of kids, and the kind of laughs that are only shared with very old friends, wind-red faces from… Read more
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Passover Leek, Kale, and Bok Choy Gratin & Freedom ’12
As we prepare for family and discussions of religious, political, and intellectual freedom, my family celebrates the year marker of a different kind of freedom. Freedom from the Year That Was, moving past a dark time and into the spring. My son returns to school, the crocuses bloom in the yard, the weather goes from… Read more
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Vegetarian Boston Baked Beans & Bad Songs to Sing at Bedtime
If there’s a skill of mine that will never be rewarded financially, and in fact only serves as a road trip plus or game night choose me incentive, it is my ability for lyric recall. All that brain space that is supposed to be taken up by useful facts and figures is chock full of… Read more
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Red Chard with Citrus-Pomegranate Glaze & Marital Advice for My Kids
Kids, the day will come when you will ask me about marriage. You will want to know how I was sure about your father, and about certainty in love. And here is what I will say: it is easy to imagine and to live the carousel of love, to find the person you want to… Read more
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Ultimate Grilled Cheese (Triple Creme, Quince, and Arugula) & Other Places
I’ve lived in ots of different places, dangled many a key from my chain, hefted moving boxes across the ocean, over state lines, and back. I’m not planning on any of that again. However, when I go to San Francisco I always have that thought: I could live here! Easily. If I did, I’d be… Read more
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Banana-Bran Muffins & Sports Parenting
The score is 53-11, and my oldest son is playing on the Brown team, losing to Red. His team of twelve and thirteen-year-olds are still putting all efforts into the game, playing hard. But this isn’t what I’m admiring from the stands. What makes me grin? That they are having fun. Amidst their awkward,… Read more
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Mussels, Clams, & Shrimp Mariniere & Nightlights
“I have an idea,” says the 4-year-old. “I could go back inside you where I lived before I was born. But this time, I would like a nightlight.” PS Yes, the kids asked to have this for dinner. They ate it and loved it…until the very end when my daughter began examining each bite… Read more
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Barley, Kale, and Onion Risotto & Celebrity Sightings
Do you ever have days in which everyone you see resembles someone you know? Half of my time is spent bumping into people now and at least half of the time I have no idea how I know them. There are too many options now – did we go to high school together? Graduate school?… Read more
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Old Fashioned Pineapple Upside Down Cake & Upside Down Cooking
I have a thing for upside down cakes and inverted dishes. Possibly this is because they tend to be simple affairs with layers of freshly rolled dough covered layers of cheese or caramelized French toast with vanilla beans. Or it could be the childlike glee that fills the room when one takes a cake that… Read more
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Kale Salad with Parmesan and Golden Raisins & Making Progress
You know how hearing a song can transport you to another time, a specific day, a season, or a person? It’s the same with food. A couple of years ago, my best friend and I had a book event in New York City. We read and signed and mingled and then escaped to a shoebox-sized… Read more
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Brown Sugar Swirl Bread &Questions
A collection of recent questions from the kids: When you are alone during the day and I’m at preschool, are you lonely? Is it true that one day the earth will run out of water? Do you love Daddy more now or more when you first met him? Why do I have to wear underwear?… Read more
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Fried Eggs with Baby Greens, Feta (or Cheddar) , and Black Beans & Quick Lunches
Apparently, I am not alone in my need for quick yet satisfying lunches. As a result, I’m sharing another 5-minute meal today. I love this kind of dish because the flavors meld together, the cooking time is mere minutes, and it’s incredibly healthy and inexpensive. As my Grandma Bev would say, “What do you have… Read more
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Quick Skillet Cod with Tomatoes and Onions & The Writing Groove
When I’m deep into my writing grooves, which happens only on Wednesdays when my husband is home with the kids, I have to forage for a quick lunch that won’t break the spell. I’ll be posting some quick lunches that go beyond the sandwich – not that there’s anything wrong with a sandwich! Only, I… Read more
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Crispy, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies & Molasses Chocolate Chip Cookies & A Tale of Two Cookies
Faulkner wrote “between grief and nothing, I will take grief.” Given the choice, I would choose chocolate chip cookies. If we had the time and calorie deficit, we could debate for hours over dough, chip size, semi-sweet? dark chocolate?, how much brown sugar versus white, whole eggs or yolks, letting the dough rest overnight or… Read more