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4 Ways to Get Scrappy (Happy) in the Kitchen
Resourcefulness. Is just a more textbook appropriate word for SCRAPPY- and the best sort of home cook. A resourceful (or scrappy) home cook is a problem solver. She uses what’s she’s got. Maybe your grandma was like mine- she could make a meal out of whatever she could scrape from the pantry and fridge. While […]
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Maple Sweet Potato Muffins
I had a crazy idea. If regular potatoes make feather bed-like bread, then what would sweet potatoes do for muffins? I was convinced their magical levitation powers would have a similar poof-effect even if I put in enough fiber to make them into a nutrient-packed morning fuel. So I went headlong, blending the sweet potatoes […]
Braised Cilantro Chard Tangle
I never ate greens until 9 years ago. I lived in Baltimore, and each week at the Waverly farmer’s market I’d walk past the shoppers piling giant plastic shopping bags full of leafy kale, collards, chard, turnip, and mustard greens, wondering what on earth they were doing with so many? I knew next to nothing […]
Why I Label My Leftovers and You Should Too
Before starting this business I worked in a restaurant, back of the house, creating and cooking up endless jars of homemade jams, pickles, and prep work for the line staff. It also meant an endless amount of canning and packing up food for the fridge, freezer, and pantry. Doing that meant I got really familiar […]
Steel-Cut Blueberry Baked Oatmeal
Baked oatmeal may be my favorite place for blueberries- in the middle of winter, that is. But right now, it’s the thick of July in California, why, you may ask, am I posting about that right now? Ah. Hear me out. Now’s the time for my truest favorite way to eat blueberries- in the summer, […]
How To Keep Strawberries From Going Moldy
Stop throwing away your strawberries! Pinterest has a never-ending scroll of kitchen hacks and I’ve seen the one for the strawberries in my facebook feed more than once. Often I’ll gufaw at “hacks” that simply aren’t useful or seem to be mostly myth. But I wondered about the vinegar-dunked strawberries. Would they taste like vinegar? […]
5 Jet Lag Busting Remedies- How I Travel Like A Natural
Does long travel flatline your energy and make you cry (just a little) for your bed and bathroom at home? Travel is rough on your body. I feel you there. Travel is my favorite (can anything top the adventure of a new city, culture, and the thrill of navigating through somewhere where you don’t speak […]
