My husband doesn’t care much for spaghetti. I think it’s the tomato sauce that puts him off. Then one night we went to a friend’s house for dinner and she served a tomatoey pasta dish. He liked it. “It was spaghetti,” I pointed out. “No, it wasn’t,” he countered. So, now it’s one of my…
Jim Lahey’s bread recipe, featured in the NY Times in 2006, swept home kitchens and persists in popularity. For good reason. If you still haven’t tried no-knead artisan bread, if you still buy 99-cent grocery store French bread, you really must give this recipe a shot. If you take both the electricity to run the…
Hitting a decade birthday is a good time to pause and reflect, and though mine is still a few months away, I am pausing and reflecting. While I am in the midst of raising children, my parents, in-laws, and their peers are reaching milestones of their own: caring for their parents. It is now not…
I started creating this system four years ago after I gave birth to our third child. I enjoyed cooking, and shopping frugally was one of my hobbies, but after baby three was born, I no longer had the mental energy to page through recipe cards, cookbooks, bookmarks, keep track of ingredients needed, and remember it…
After eliminating Crisco from my pantry, the first great dilemma to solve was how to achieve the perfect chocolate chip cookie with an all-butter dough. Not only did I solve this dilemma, but my solution made whipping up the dough even faster! I can now get three sheets of cookies into the oven in less…
I have difficulty doing something just because. I want a reason, and for years – decades, even – of my life I insisted that there was no good reason to make my bed. Ambiguous “should be done” reasoning is simply not compelling. My mind wants to know why and if I can give it no…