If you've ever had a garden, you know that you don't completely control when your produce is ready to pick.  Sometimes, that means you only get a handful of spinach or berries at a time.  And sometimes, that means you get several baskets full of snap peas, all at once. When … [Read more...]

We all have them: that list of kitchen skills or recipes that just intimidate us.  And for the longest time, this was one of mine.  Making a roux.  Except that at the time I didn't even know that word for it.  I just knew it as "the white sauce that makes Alfredo".  (Even that … [Read more...]

When we started eating mostly gluten free, I wanted to look for other options for getting grains in our diet.  Something to help round out the meal, and provide a filling option without breaking the budget.  But most of these were things I had never heard of, and there was one in … [Read more...]

On Tuesday I mentioned that Jesse taught me how to cook eggs, and I have to give him credit today too: he taught me how to flip a pancake without messing it up constantly.  He always jokes that he married me because I can play the piano, and I joke that I married him so that he … [Read more...]