Cookbooks

Pumpkin olive oil snacking bread

Pumpkin olive oil snacking bread

Every year at Thanksgiving, I buy way too much canned pumpkin. I don’t even really like pumpkin stuff that much – I’m no raging pumpkin spice fan. But I make a Thanksgiving pumpkin pie every year and I never look up how much pumpkin you […]

Meal plan: week of November 4, 2019

Meal plan: week of November 4, 2019

Well, it’s been a little while. We moved back to our house over the summer and somehow everything has been a little discombobulated since then. But, dinner? Somehow, that keeps getting onto the table. I’ve also decided to see if I can monetize this site […]

Meal plan: week of January 14, 2019 (what?!)

Meal plan: week of January 14, 2019 (what?!)

When you’ve had a fully delightful grandparental invasion that lasts for an entire joy-filled month, let me just tell you that the letdown when everybody goes is real and dire. The kids are all, “YOU AGAIN, MAMA?!? Where are my constant sources of entertainment and […]

Meal plan: week of October 1, 2018

Meal plan: week of October 1, 2018

Holy moly did you see what just happened? I typed October into the title bar because somehow by the time I start cooking this week we will well and truly be in October. How on earth. I tell you what, being a mostly vegetarian cook […]

Cookbook roundup: dinner inspiration March 2018

Cookbook roundup: dinner inspiration March 2018

Is there anything better than flipping through that excellent new cookbook you bought last week and stumbling upon the seasonally-perfect, ingredients-in-your-crisper, everyone-in-your-house-will-totally-eat-this dinner? No, I don’t know either, because that never happens. Ever. Oh well. Cookbooks are still the best. I live dangerously close to […]