Life with Maple continues to be both fun and exhausting which means far less time for cooking.  I used to spend most of my Sundays baking bread and cooking for the week but have done neither in far too long.  Fortunately for Maple is the sweetest and greatest puppy ever so I don’t hold it […]

The past few weeks my wife and I have been doing more and more weeknight cooking.  Normally we cook a few meals over the weekend and then eat them throughout the week.  It’s good to have a stock of quick weeknight recipes that you can easily put together when you get home.  This chicken is a […]

I’ve gone down some strange Youtube rabbit holes recently and last week somehow ended up watching videos of people eating super hot peppers (like the Carolina Reaper).  It wasn’t nearly as entertaining as watching Homer Simpson down Guatemalan insanity peppers but it did put me in the mood for something spicy. I came across this spicy […]

Living in an apartment community in a college town means you are bound to get mail every now and again that is addressed to someone else.  I found it odd that this still happened in our old apartment last year (having lived there for three years) but it was always junk mail that went right into […]

I think I tend to naturally gravitate towards fall and winter style meals so summer meal planning can be tough for me.  I’m always looking for simple dishes that don’t require too much active cook time when it is hot out.  The last few days have been some of the hottest this summer (thought it […]

When I first started following various food blogs several years ago I was amazed at the incredible meals that were posting every few days.  It seemed like living in the house of one of these bloggers must have been like having a top rated restaurant in your house.  Of course now I’ve learned that this isn’t […]

One of the great things about having a sourdough starter is sharing it with others looking to get into bread baking.  It can initially seem daunting but I’ve noticed that pretty quickly people realize there is not much maintenance work involved.  The idea of refreshing the starter, which involves discarding most of the current starter, is […]

Dedicated readers will remember two years ago when I wrote about the bounty of pesto we had in our freezer.  We had received a large amount from my wife’s parents, so much that it took us three years to use it all!  I should be clear that isn’t a complaint, we were able to use […]

Every few months I find myself thinking, “we should eat more fish”.  We have it maybe once every month and a lot of the time it is simple recipes with some kind of white fish (cod, tilapia, etc.).  The fact that this is the first fish recipe I’m posting after writing about 70 other meals […]

Throughout the summer I mentioned the bumper crop of cabbage that consistently found its way into our CSA box.  Well in our last box we didn’t get cabbage but instead got a butternut squash which sat on our kitchen table for a few weeks.  We’ve cooked with lots of different types of squash and I wanted to […]