Sometimes the question is. what cant I put in a pie crust. Prompted by Erin McDowells new book The Fearless Baker (GET IT!) the answer is definitely not brownie batter because BROWNIE BATTER IN PIE CRUST suddenly makes all t...

Hey its Sunday, lets have some cake. Along with the extra hour that we get today as a bribe for having the deal with months of short days and Winter darkness lets just go ahead and eat cake too. This Pear and Pe...

Theres a certain type of autopilot I have to go on in the grocery store in order to not buy every eight dollar juice and bag of dark chocolate that my grumbling belly is asking for. My autopilot leads me past the avocados for a squeeze te...

This is me, creepin up behind you while youre whisking together your Thanksgiving gravy tomorrow. This is me, whispering in your ear as youre pouring gravy into the gravy boat. This is me, asking to lick the gravy spoon. ...

There are some things I do with great ceremony in the kitchen. Work butter into a pie crust, chop carrots for a soup, butter up a whole chicken for roasting. It can all be pretty precious. A luxury, really. Truthfully, I do these same thin...

Lets talk about pie crust! Its important because hopefully you have a homemade Apple Cranberry Crumble Pie making its way to your holiday table this year. Pies come in a few parts, homemade pie crust, loads of filling,...

Its rolling into the very early hours of Christmas Eve on the west coast and Im tucked in my old bedroom at my parents house (its now my dads office where Im sleeping on an air mattress) eating takeout Thai fo...

Everyday is a series of events that I talk myself into, shadowed by a series of events that I have talked myself out of. Checks and balances, every day. Talking myself into an early morning walk before coffee. Talking myself out of h...

Remember that phenomenon a few years back when we pressed everything from hash browns to quesadillas and chocolate chip cookies inside of our waffle makers? We had some success. We had some failures. We learned that waffle irons are ...

Fair to say its been a rough week but here we are, still in the world with a Sunday in front of us. I heard a passing news story this week about bird sounds in the Amazon rainforest and how the people that live in the rainforest can tell...

• Annapolis: When a Local Tragedy Becomes National News. (The Atlantic) • Are you here? Why A Pro-Life World Has A Lot of Dead Women In It. • Gossiping you know, its bonding like when we u...

For the next few months lets just call the refrigerator the new oven, and the grill the new stovetop. Really, unless youre asking me to fry baby pies I really want nothing to do with the ovenstove until maybe Thanks...

Hello friends, Its been one of those weeks Ive been eyeing on the calendar for a few good months thinking yeeeeks I better not stack anything else into that week or Im sure to blow a gasket. Low and behold, the ...

Hello dear friends! Thank you for your patience yesterday! I hope youre coming out of a lovely August weekend (literally HOW is it almost September!?) and I hope youre feeling steady in this Monday. Take it slow. Lets ...

Hello my friends. Weve made it to Sunday. That in itself this week feels like a bit of deliverance. Just a bit. I hope this finds you with a moment to unwind yourself. Ive felt pretty wound and bound...

Steady as we go. Thats the mantra thats been running through my head the last few days. Steady and go. Steady and keep on. I mean Ive definitely also stress-cleaned my closet. Ive defi...