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Kitchen Travel: From Point A to Point B = Pumpkin Hand-Pies
Sometimes, in my efforts to use up food, I never know what I’m going to wind up with in the kitchen. This week, among far too many things I’d amassed in the fridge, a container of roasted squash was...
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The Swirl of Winter and A Cookie for a Cold Day
It feels a bit swirly here in my world. I know swirly isn’t really a word (or at least not the right word), but often I need to merge two or three words to find something that sounds like what it is....
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Feeling Cookie-ish, Part 2: Dark Chocolate Crackle Cookie Recipe
Chocolate and orange—Love it or hate it? This is one of the (grueling) debates we used to have in the Fine Cooking magazine test kitchen when it came time to test recipes for the holiday issues. There...
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Tart Art: Recipes for Sweet or Savory Rustic Tarts
Most likely you’ve got your holiday menus all figured out by now. But in case you are still looking for something special, I am here to happily remind you about rustic tarts. Sweet or savory, these...
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Keep Warm and Cook Something Delicious
Wherever you are, I’m sure you’re cold. If you’re in Minnesota, God bless you. Roy spent his elementary school years in Duluth and he has vivid memories of walking to school through snow banks much...
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In the Winter Kitchen: Grains, Greens, Citrus & Sunlight
My pal Barney and I have been in the Laboratory all morning, mad-sciencing up creations to satisfy my winter cravings. For some reason, I am fixated on dark green vegetables, grains of all kinds, and...
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A Recipe for Sunshine: Roasted Golden Beet Jewels with Clementine Butter
Thursday morning I managed to get out of the house for a coffee date, before it started snowing—again. I detoured on the way home (despite big fat furry flakes already falling from the sky) to go into...
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Pea Shoots, Blue Skies & Crispy Potatoes
Just to add some levity to this already hilarious February (More snow tomorrow! Then rain! Then ice! Then a deep freeze again! Hurrah!), I am currently developing recipes for asparagus and crookneck...
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Our First Chicken Coop on Wheels
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that Roy had started building our latest chicken coop in the snow (photo below). This was obviously not ideal, and fortunately, we were able to get our chicken delivery...
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Deviled Eggs and Popovers, Bread Pudding and Frittata Recipes–Happy Easter Eggs!
With hundreds of chickens (how many exactly, we’re not sure, as witnessed by a heated argument last night about this statistic), Easter eggs take on kind of a special importance around here. I...
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Of Eggs and Cherry Tomatoes
Summer creeps up and then whizzes by here on the merry Isle of crazed vacationers. And I mean crazed. More like frenzied, now that it is August. There are an extraordinary number of people here....
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Surprise! I’m Writing a New Cookbook!
I know, I know, I’ve been a little quiet here on Sixburnersue, but I promise I have a good excuse. It isn’t just that the farm work has kept me really hopping. I’ve had, well, a little something else...
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Walking the November Road with The Farm Dog, and Other Clever Ways to...
Now that our second photo shoot for the new cookbook is behind us, I am back to work in the kitchen and at the computer developing the last batch of recipes for the book. This means, of course, that...
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Best Veggie Sides for Thanksgiving, 2015
Alas, I am totally cheating with my list for you this year. Thanksgiving is three days away, and I am still in cookbook-recipe-development land, so I don’t have a brand new roster of veggie sides for...
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What One Vegetarian Really Eats (and Cooks)
A year ago this January, I hopped a very short fence. I went from eating not a lot of meat, to eating no meat at all. Technically, I became a vegetarian, though I have eaten the occasional fish or...
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Ready, Set, Go: Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty
I have been reading a little book by Cheryl Strayed called Brave Enough. It’s a collection of quotes. I like it. Them. Many of them. All of it. But my favorite is this very simple thought: “Put...
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Simple Green Suppers Is Available for Pre-Order!
My fourth cookbook, Simple Green Suppers, is now available for preorder (see links below). There, I’ve said it. Seems unreal, really, in many ways. First, that the whole selling and promotion thing...
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Tart Art: Recipes for Sweet or Savory Rustic Tarts
I’ve been looking for a great excuse to repost this blog on rustic tarts. Well, it being the eve of you-know-what, I don’t thing I even have to mention why you might want to totally distract yourself...
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Chickpeas, Meet Smashed Potatoes
I’m not done with you yet, chickpeas! (Sorry folks, next week we’ll move on to miso and ginger and butter and some quick little sauces!) In my last blog, I talked about how versatile chickpeas are,...
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A Few Small (and Big) Ways to Use Miso In Recipes
When I tiptoed over the mostly-vegetable line into the all-vegetarian world, I finally got friendly with miso. So when I wrote Simple Green Suppers, I took advantage of miso’s deep flavors in...
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