Food + life + work at home
Holy smokes, folks! Here I am getting out ahead of the holidays again, with another delicious turkey recipe! Or, considering how long ago I actually made this recipe, I might just be really behind. Because that might just be a …
I don’t need much of an excuse to whip up a side dish of buttery mashed potatoes. I love them and Marcus tears into them with both hands. But every once in a while, especially as we get into the …
I’m far from being a minimalist, but sometimes less is oh so much more. I find that a lot in cooking. Good ingredients can get absolutely buried under a lot of complicated spices and preparation methods, whereas if you have …
Hi guys, and happy Halloween! Fall always seems to come late in NoVA. It’s already cold where my folks live in California and it has already snowed on our friends and relatives in Denver. And here in northern Virginia? We’re …
There’s turkey in this seasoned and roasted acorn squash. There’s apples in this recipe. And sweet potatoes. It’s kind of ridiculous how much fall there is in this recipe, but I love it. I’m loving every bit of it because it’s finally …
I’m pretty good about keeping the clutter in my house to a minimum, but you know where I am absolutely terrible? My digital life. Isn’t that horrible? I work in data. I live in information. I get paid to organize …
It always pays to have a dish up your sleeve, whether it’s for that office holiday potluck or a gathering of friends and family, that 1) is guaranteed to taste great whether you execute it perfectly or if you have …
Jump to Recipe! When Scott and I first moved in together, he had a lengthy list of foods he didn’t like. But as I discovered while overcoming my own childhood picky eating habits as a young adult, my husband didn’t …
I’ve been hanging onto this recipe for a while, but I held it because maple and butterscotch seem well suited to Octobers. The hard part hasn’t been gushing over this recipe because it’s so good {it is!}. The hard part …
Jump to Recipe! Oeufs en cocotte, also called coddled eggs, or literally eggs in pots, are a traditional French dish. You take a ramekin and add eggs, creme fraiche, and occasionally ham and cheese, and bake them in a water bath until …
Happy Monday, friends – as happy as it can be to try to get back into the daily grind after a holiday weekend which hopefully included a lot of merriment and feasting! Ours included all of that, even though – …
Hot mulled cider has been one of my holiday traditions as long as I can remember. There’s nothing like a warm mug of sweet apple threaded with comforting fall spices to warm you up on a cool fall afternoon! Spike …