The other night, someone I have been wanting to meet for years came over for dinner. Andrew Hyde is a vagabond traveler, master designer, enlightened laugher, and an all-around good egg. He’s a...
It probably won’t surprise you to find that we adore Julia Child in this house. (Those of you who have been watching our videos might have spotted the new photo in our kitchen — Julia Child in ...
A few weeks ago, I was in Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico. Specifically, I was standing on the back porch of a house that belonged to a wonderful woman named Norma. She invited a number of us from the writ...
It’s finally, finally spring around here. The skies above this island, and the entire Puget Sound area, are fickle at best in March and April. Much of the time, those skies glower in dark grey,...
Quinoa. We can’t live without it in this house. Before he met me, Danny had never eaten quinoa. Now, he can’t imagine that. We eat it at least 3 or 4 times a week, especially at breakfast...
I have a fennel problem. Well, Danny refers to it as a problem. I think it’s perfectly fine that from December through June I would like to eat something with fennel in it every single day. Can...
I love when Danny decides to play for dinner. We do a lot of looking through cookbooks together around here. Sometimes in bed. It’s one of our favorite activities. (Yes, we are nerds.) I read c...
For years I suffered from anemia. I never knew why. I couldn’t give blood because my anemia made my blood not useful to anyone else. There’s a sobering thought. By the time I was diagnose...
I love the community that gathers around food, whether it’s our family of three at the dinner table every evening, or a picnic with friends in a park crowded with sunshine and other people, or ...
While we were in Santa Fe, we ate one of the better gluten-free pizzas I’ve eaten in a restaurant. At Rooftop Pizza, they fed us well. We were so happy to sit outside in the warm air and share ...
Last evening, we three gathered around our dining room table for dinner. For the past ten days, we hadn’t been there. We had been around the table of Danny’s brother and his wonderful fam...
Last week, I put this photo up on Instagram. I loved the ooze, the way the window is reflected in the yolks, and all that color. Several people only wanted to know one thing: “How do I make egg...
How can you not love someone whose name is Joy the Baker? That’s what she is — Joy. Yes, her name is Joy, but I mean more than that. Joy Wilson is sunlight and goofiness, connected conversation...
Before I met Danny, the only kind of eggs I felt confident enough to cook were scrambled eggs and fried eggs. When he started making me eggs over easy, I sort of swooned. I still sort of swoon at man...
It’s spring break here. Even though Lu is only 3, her two preschools follow the school calendar. Thus, every day this week has been a discovery, free from schedule. My parents asked if they cou...
When I first met Danny, I liked being in the kitchen. Cooking soothed me. I found, increasingly, that I would rather stir at the stove than put pen to papers to grade them. The first year I was glute...
After we shot the video on how to make almond butter the other day, Danny threw together a quick Asian-flavored sauce with it. He whisked together some of the almond butter, grated ginger, finely cho...
Brownies seem pretty simple, right? They’re flat, they taste of chocolate, they satisfy a quick urging for a weeknight dessert. How hard could they be? Let me tell you, people, there are no end...
Dear lovely people, Today’s video taught me a few things. 1. Homemade almond butter tastes infinitely better than the stuff in the jar. It’s cheaper, too. And, it’s fast. Once you m...
How is March with you? I hear about sudden bursts of warmth on the east coast, a few days of turning on the grill and going to the beach to soak up all the sun before early spring descends into the b...
It doesn’t take much to make me happy at the moment. Sunlight falling through the French doors into a room that is mostly unpacked. The sight of the plum tree in bloom off our front porch. The ...
It has been a hilarious week. Well, I’m trying to remember it as hilarious in retrospect. Last Tuesday, early in the morning, I turned in the full first draft of our cookbook. Thursday morning,...
Yesterday, it rained, snowed, hailed, hailed sideways because of the howling winds, turned to cold clear sunlight, and then did it all over again. This is a little like the week we’ve been havi...
Danny and I ate this for lunch on Friday. We did it for you. One of my favorite easy weeknight meals is something Danny taught me how to make: a stuffed chicken breast. You make a filling — in this c...
We gathered in Seattle for lunch with friends. That normally wouldn’t be noteworthy, but this one was special. The full manuscript of the cookbook is due on Monday. We move in 6 days. We should...
Sometimes, when life feels complicated, it helps to go back to the simple things. Sunlight on a wooden floor. Dancing to Aretha Franklin, then stopping to belt it out with her. Talking late in...
The other morning, I woke up to sunlight. As has been happening for days, my mind wakes me up at 6 am, on the dot, and starts thinking about the cookbook. Other fleeting bits of conversations or emai...
I’ve been playing a lot lately. When Lucy is home, she mostly wants to play hide and seek with me. (And with her daddy when he is home. That’s a fine game.) Generally, she doesn’t q...
When we first moved into this house where we will be living for one more month, Lu was only 8 months old. There is no way to convey how long ago that feels. A dear friend of mine and I were pregnant ...
Mostly, these past few weeks, I’ve been sitting here, typing. Breathing. Then moving to the kitchen to cook. Cleaning. And typing again. Thank goodness for Lucy. She keeps me grounded. When she...
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