Perfect butter-roasted potatoes.
Sliced potatoes, perfectly roasted with butter and bay leaves. Get the recipe!
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Stunning orange-almond tart.
Having company for dinner on Saturday night gave me the perfect excuse to fuss. Except I didn’t. Let me explain: I love the planning and execution of making a great meal in equal measure. I love …
Holiday food gift: fig-thyme jam.
For several deeply held reasons, I am attempting to scale back the scope of Christmas (at least the spending and gifting parts of Christmas) in favor of a quieter, simpler, more loving approach. Because I have …
In praise of: the mortar and pestle.
Both my mother and brother, excellent cooks both of them, own a mortar/pestle set. Huge stone bowls with hefty pestles—these sit prominently on the counter in their respective kitchens, mostly used for grinding fresh pepper. I, …
This week at the farmers’ market: SF edition.
… and, we’re back … Funny: For a food blog, writes4food was unexpectedly quiet last week, arguably the most food-focused week on the U.S. calendar. A couple of reasons for this: One, we don’t do Thanksgiving. …
Walnut blue cheese spread.
I’ve had a request to bring this walnut-blue cheese spread to Thanksgiving—again (it’s THAT good)—so I thought I’d share the recipe—again. I originally spotted this easy recipe on the blog Homesick Texan, and I doctored it a …
Better than store-bought: compound butter.
I regularly have herb butter on hand in the freezer—so last weekend when Rob grilled some good steaks, I topped each one with a sliver of basil-garlic butter made with ingredients from my garden. My herb …
Helping a family farm.
My friend and former colleague Beth Dean and her husband, Bill (along with their two young daughters), raise heirloom Red Wattle pigs on their family farm east of Cincinnati. I don’t know how they do it: …
Recipe revamp: fall granola.
I posted back in May of this year about finding the perfect homemade granola recipe after much sampling and experimenting. And just to prove that cooking is, indeed, one big experiment, I’ll share a seasonal revamp …
