Beef rolls

I try not to make this everyday, because we would go broke (chuck roast isn’t THAT cheap). But I really wish I could eat this everyday – it’s that good. Feel free to buy thinly sliced beef for this (or get your butcher to do it!). I started with a giant chuck roast because it…

Cabbage Rolls in Tomato Sauce

This is how we eat cabbage in our house when our CSA decides to give us head after head of this smelly veggie. Lots and lots of cabbage rolls. Good thing they’re incredibly delicious and make great leftovers. My recipe does not involve blanching the leaves because 1) I channel my grandma’s spirit and am…

Pork with apples and onions

It doesn’t look too pretty. Good thing it tastes amazing! Start boiling some potatoes to mash while the onions are cooking to eat with this! 4 pork chops, any kind 1 onion diced 1 large tart apple (Granny Smith, Jonathan), sliced Flour Salt pepper Water Sage Heat a swirl of oil in a large pan or…

Winter Vegetable Triple Threat: dinner prep for 3 meals

I’ve been seeing a lot of double duty dinner prep in food world recently. It’s ingenious and especially timely, as making dinner is exponentially harder with two kids than one. The things they don’t tell you, amiright? While in theory I’m still up for a great cooking project (I will conquer you, Banh Xeo!), dinner…

Hash

This is a super duper dinner saver in our house. Not only is it one of Jake’s all time favorites (meat and potatoes!), but a few minutes of chopping and 30 minutes of hands-off cooking time yields a giant pot of comfort food at its finest. While this is a super easy recipe, there are…

Chocolate and Apricot Spice Cookies

I’m not one to try out a ton of cookie recipes. I’m confident that I’ve found the best chocolate chip cookie recipes (my sister in law’s and  these), and feel few urges to venture out of that comfort zone. I’m also married to a man whose list of acceptable cookies is a whopping one. When I push…

Uncluttered Granola

I realize the title of this recipe is not the most intriguing: isn’t granola all about the diversity of textures and tastes?  A cluttered, nut filled, fruit loaded, seed-prolific, and maybe even chocolate enhanced granola sounds incredible, and a way better alternative to plain old toasty oats with some coconut.   Here’s the argument: When I…

Roasted Potatoes with White and Shiitake Mushrooms

Alice is usually napping as I cook and do my food “photo shoots” (in quotations here because I’m not sure I can legitimately use this phrase when I have no idea what I’m doing). Yesterday however, the luring smell of these baking potatoes must have kept her awake. She happily squealed in her crib as…

(Better than) Great Harvest Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are legendary in my family. It has been said that my father may never eat another type of cookie again. It has also been said that anyone who’s lucky enough to be in the house while these are baking cannot resist the aroma, and will be forcibly lead by their nose to the…

Spicy, Saucy Chicken

The recipe title isn’t terribly informative, right? In addition to delicious and addictive (which I thought were a little too much to add in a recipe title) spicy and saucy were the only adjectives I could come up with to categorize this dish.  It’s appropriate too, because the only thing I had on my mind when…