On New Year’s Day I had one last chance to pick from my friend’s lemon tree. It was great, and I brought home 30+ pounds of amazing fresh lemons. That’s a lot of lemons! But y’all know about my life-long love affair with this favorite fruit....
I was reading a nutrition article in the New York Times the other day, and it made the same mistake as so much of such writing: it referred to veggie recommendation in terms of “servings” per day, a term that gives zero guidance for actual people. How much...
There’s an Indian-spiced winter squash dish that’s heavy in my rotation right now, and it’s making me so happy and also all kinds of nostalgic. how it started When I first moved to Oregon 30 years ago, neither my partner nor I were very good at cooking. It was all...
Squash season means squash-seed season! Roasting seeds of almost any squash is one of my favorite winter treats. If I’m lucky, I’ll get to rotate between these and kale chips for my salty snacks instead of always going to popcorn. Squash seeds are a great natural...
One of the fun new kitchen toys I got myself at the end of last year had been on my back burner for a long time. Playing with my new SodaStream for 10 straight days turned out to be a great lesson in the power of trying new things — even if you find the old things...
