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A Delicious Winter Side Dish: Thyme Roast Sweet Potatoes Like a lot of people, I’m not a perfect eater. I would describe myself as healthy-ish. One of the big advantages of cooking pretty much all of our food myself, though, is that we are able …
Old Fashioned Baking: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies I am often torn between wanting to bake “fancy” things and wanting to bake comfort foods from my childhood. Fancy things include macarons, French pastries, croissants. Comfort foods include brownies, layer cakes, and cookies – the old-fashioned kind like …
Cozy Up to Winter with Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies I always think it’s kind of weird the way people put up their holiday decorations the day after Halloween and then take them down the day after Christmas. This is the hard part of the year, …
Cooking Math: Chocolate & Chocolate = Super Fudgy Brownies The first thing I ever learned to bake were brownies from a box. I mixed the powder together with water, eggs, and oil, straining my super weak, skinny arms with endless stirring. Then I spread the …
Summer Produce: Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes The end of summer – and my vacation – is rapidly approaching. I can’t believe I am already going back to school on Monday! One thing that isn’t ending, though, is a supply of farm fresh produce. Yesterday a …
Fake Takeout: Shrimp Fried Rice I don’t like to go out. If the pandemic taught me anything, it’s just how much I love staying home. While other people were discovering cooking and baking and crafts like they had just been invented, I was able to …
Mammoth Chocolate Chip Cookies: The Cure for What Ails You Do you know someone who has to wake up really early for work or school? I bet they never stop talking about it. I would know; I’m that person. To know me is to have …
Cooking Sort of Italian with an Italian Skillet Dinner Have we ever discussed how I found out I am part Italian? I can’t remember. My dad, retired and bored, decided to look into our background. His parents were pretty easy. Almost everyone in his family …
Cheesecake: A Horror Story Gather round for a story, children. One day, many years ago, our next door neighbors had a party. The next day, the woman came over with a cheesecake that hadn’t been eaten. When we cut into it, the inside oozed out, …
In our house being French is sort of our identity. It’s important that our kids feel that connection to the place their dad was born and raised. We all speak French, eat French, and visit France pretty regularly. That said, St. Patrick’s Day is the …
