In a couple weeks I will be smoking for others for the first time. This is a big step. Other people will eating my smoked food. Other people will be watching me smoke stuff. Other people will know if I have to secretly finish the meat in the oven because I couldn’t keep the heat [...]

I got a lot of peaches at Heyser Farm on Saturday. Like a LOT. We can each bring one for lunch and I can grill them to have with dinner, but that still left a lot of peaches. I could make a cobbler or a pie, but I try to stick to healthy foods during [...]

I live in Montgomery County, MD just a couple of miles from the border of DC. If you know Montgomery County, the first images that pop into your mind are big fancy houses in Chevy Chase or soccer moms in Rockville. Potomac, MD was in fact the inspiration for Beverly Hills, 90210. That is a [...]

Scene: Stopping at the grocery store on our way home. Me: So what would you like for dinner? Husband: I don’t know. Whatever. Me: Well we’re going to the store, so we can have anything you want. Husband: Ok, then I want turkey burgers with guacamole and the Asian slaw with the ramen in it. [...]

I love to cook… I love to come up with new dishes… but I REALLY love when I come up with a meal that uses up all the stuff that is sitting in my fridge. The CSA means that I have tons of very fresh veggies that will go bad if I don’t use them [...]

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but when I have guests in town I love to cook for them. I especially love cooking for them when they knew me back in the day as the-girl-who-couldn’t-even-make-mac n’ cheese. Such was the case this weekend. On Saturday night we decided to stay in and make a big [...]

Pizza. One of the few dishes that is rarely as good at home as it is at a restaurant. I’ve tried it before but never got the right texture or flavors. It was fine, but it was never good and definitely not ever REALLY good. It seems so simple, though! Dough — Sauce — Toppings. [...]

Last week I bought more vegetables than I needed for meals. And then on Saturday I got my awesome CSA box stuffed with all kinds of fun vegetables. As exciting as all of this was, I was up to my ears in vegetables and I am leaving town on Wednesday. Things would go bad… unless… [...]

I started buying turkey cutlets when I saw them on sale. That was really it. I needed meat for dinners and turkey was on sale. When I got home I looked them up to see if they are any different from chicken. What I learned was that they are different from chicken in a few [...]

As soon as I opened my CSA box to see it overflowing with greens, I got nervous. But then I saw that big leafy head of Boston lettuce and just heard it screaming “fill me with curry chicken salad!” Excellent idea! Those leaves were the perfect little envelopes for big scoops of curry chicken salad! [...]