Pantry Cooking, Quick Suppers, Soup
QSS Potato Leek Soup
QSS stands for three of my favorite adjectives: Quick, Sweet, and Smoky. I suppose it should really be QSSC, since this rustic soup is also deliciously chunky.
My friends, I threw ...
Books, Mains, Picky, Picky, Quick Suppers
Parchment Paper Chicken with Sage, Brown Butter & Sweet Potatoes
We’ve got a pretty good division of kitchen labor around here. I do the majority of the cooking, while Stephen does the majority of the dish-washing. Harry, when he’s not ...
Baby Food, Mains, Quick Suppers
Quick & Smoky Chicken Stew
Sometimes, I buy potatoes and forget to use them. And ...
Baby Food, Baking, Mains, Nap-Friendly Recipes, One-Handed Meals, Quick Suppers, Vegetarian
Roasted Root Vegetable Crostata (Playing with Leftovers)
Harry’s off from school today (Election Day, really?!?!) so I’ll ...
Baking, Mains, One-Handed Meals, Parenting, Picky, Picky, Quick Suppers
One-Handed Meals: Garlicky Pepperoni Parmesan Pinwheels
OK, first: If you’re new here, as a subscriber or just a visitor, welcome! And I love that shirt on you—really brings out your eyes.
Now that we’ve gotten that out ...
Books, Mains, Pantry Cooking, Quick Suppers, Vegetarian
(Meatless Mostdays) Pam Anderson’s Cook without a Book: Meatless Meals
You know how sometimes, when you finally meet an idol, you totally screw it up? You don’t? Oh. Well then you’ll really get ...
Baby Food, Books, Mains, Pantry Cooking, Quick Suppers, Sides
Melissa Clark’s Figgy, Piggy Chicken
My worlds have been colliding lately. Take this (unbelievably delicious) recipe involving chicken, figs, and bacon. It’s by Melissa Clark, from her first cookbook. ...
Baby Food, Picky, Picky, Quick Suppers, Sides
Cornmeal Crusted Flounder with Smoky Apricot Salsa
I like fish. Stephen doesn’t. Harry likes fish but only in stick form, and only sometimes, and he keeps things interesting by occasionally insisting he only ...
Baby Food, Mains, Nap-Friendly Recipes, One-Handed Meals, Quick Suppers, Vegetarian
Summery Swiss Chard, Corn, Peach, and Quinoa Salad
I’ll make this brief, since I’m due to return the copyedited manuscript for Parents Need to Eat Too* to my editor, um, last ...
Baby Food, Mains, One-Handed Meals, Picky, Picky, Quick Suppers
Picky Eater Special: Make-Your-Own Taco Salad
When I moderated a panel on dealing with picky eaters at the BlogHer Food conference in May, I snagged a handful of good ideas for ...