I’m still in the throes of emptying out my winter chest freezer. I found a larger-than-expected cache of pork we ground ourselves and figured it needed using up – this is what I came up with. Really simple and delicious flavors but these patties only take ten minutes or so to put together. Yay! First […]
I’ve been on quite a comfort food kick lately. I’m blaming the combination of Whole30 plus ridiculously-cold-still-weather. After one too many dishes with hearty root vegetables like sweet potatoes, parsnips and carrots, I decided to give my body a little bit of a break. Some comfort from my comfort food? Kind of! Tomato soup for […]
So this weekend it’s snowing. Again. I know a bazillion people are probably still (claiming to be) knee-deep in “cleanses” and “detoxes”, but not me. I am doing a Whole30, but I consider that less of a cleanse and more like eating real food. In part, it’s a challenge to myself to see if I […]
Sometimes I make a scaled down version of these if I’m craving a sweet snack without resorting to fruit. Or if I’ve already eaten all the fruit in the house. It happens. The first time I made these roasted baby carrots, however, was as a side because I’d just gleefully returned home from grocery shopping […]
Hash browns are one of those foods that I LOVE in theory and yet always fall short in reality. Those limp pre-shredded things you find at diners just aren’t that great, really. In case you can’t tell from the picture, I like my hash browns super crispy and even a tad overdone. Also, without containing […]
The day I found out that commercial chorizo was primarily composed of salivary glands and lymph nodes was the day I stopped eating it. Later I started to make my own from pork I ground myself. These days I tend to limit my pork consumption because it’s so much harder to trace what really went […]
