Butternut Squash Soup

Butternut Squash Soup

Food traditions can take root faster than you’d think. Several years ago (probably seven or eight) I decided to make a soup for Thanksgiving that I’d made a few times and had liked each time. It’s surprisingly simple, has few ingredients, and can...
Buckwheat Waffles

Buckwheat Waffles

I grew up eating the deep pocketed square waffles that my mother made with buttermilk. They’re delicious with either whipped cream and strawberries or the more traditional maple syrup. Recently my mother gave me a waffle iron; its pockets aren’t as deep...
Leftover Redux

Leftover Redux

While I love to cook for groups of people – friends, family, and sometime coworkers and classmates – I often end up cooking for one. This occasionally presents a bit of a problem in terms of leftover logistics. Such as a craving for roast beef right before...
Christmas and New Years

Christmas and New Years

This past summer I decided to try my hand at making a couple of liqueurs and had varied success with those projects, but after some time steeping, filtering, bottling, and a little more aging I ended up with two liqueurs that I bottled up and gave away as gifts this...
Bread, egg, and pig – mmm… breakfast

Bread, egg, and pig – mmm… breakfast

La Quercia is a producer of delicious pork products from proscuitto to lardo to coppa. I’ve been sampling and cooking with their products for quite awhile now, and if you haven’t heard of them (they’ve been featured by Food and Wine,  Bittman for the...
Holiday Drinks

Holiday Drinks

I grew up drinking what my grandmother called wassail every Christmas. It was a combination of cranberry and apples juices with sugar, cloves, and cinnamon. After moving away during college and deciding to stay put I’ve started making it for myself....