Your new favorite taco is here! These smoked pork carnitas tacos are piled high with crispy seasoned pork & an easy summer inspired pineapple salsa. The best part? If you make my Crispy Smoked Pork Carnitas at the weekend, you can whip up these tacos in under 30 minutes on a weeknight! Boom. When it […]
Crispy Smoked Pork Carnitas
If you like tender, smoke kissed pulled pork with Mexican inspired flavors and gorgeously crispy-crunchy bits, then this smoked pork carnitas is for you. Instead of messing with the traditional method of braising the pork butt on the stove top or in the oven with plenty of lard, I took inspiration from the smoker and […]
Crispiest Roast Sheet Pan Chicken with Orange & Olive Potatoes
This sheet pan chicken has the answer to the crispiest skin without having to pan sear & dodge splatter as you render down that fat. It’s a simple trick, but you won’t believe it works ’til you try it for yourself. All you’ve gotta do is place your chicken skin side down on a parchment […]
French Onion Pot Roast
I’ve carried a single photo of my mother & I to every place I’ve ever lived for the last 20-plus years, but I’ve never really looked at it. I’d tuck the blurred image – me, squinty & self-assured despite the fact that my pink-buttoned dress likely hides a diaper; her, focused on the camera, the […]
Classic Cosy Weekend Beef Stew
I flip my face to the other side of a too-thin pillow, a smushed pancake of sleep resting on the crook of the elbow I’m using to hold my head aloft. My hand is, predictably, numb. But that’s not what woke me. Tilting my head, I search for voices, either raised & unrepentant or muffled […]
Hearty Dairy Free Leek & Potato Soup
My mother cooked like she loved; not at all, or just for show. My father, however, brought a sense of irreverent frivolity to almost everything, which was true most of all in the kitchen. I wonder now if he ever really loved to cook, or if the few moments of actual joy sprinkled throughout the […]