Category Archives: Quick & Easy

Steamed Artichokes

Steamed Artichokes

Last week, I had dinner with my mom. We walked to the grocery store together, less to shop than to get out and enjoy the balmy March evening (ignoring the fact that March evenings aren’t supposed to be balmy). As background, my mom (and most of my family) lives just outside the third-rudest city in… [click for recipe and more]

Perfect Oven Fries

Perfect Oven Fries

It feels a little misleading to call these fries, because they aren’t fried. But wrap these puppies in paper and serve them up with ketchup, and no one will ever be the wiser. Plus, calling them “oven baked potatoes” sounds incredibly dull and doesn’t do justice to a baked french fry that is crispy on… [click for recipe and more]

Blood Orange Curd

Blood Orange Curd

Last week, I impulse bought a 3-pound bag of blood oranges during a 6 AM trip to the grocery store. Clearly, I was not entirely awake, or I would’ve remembered the identical 3-pound bags of blood oranges I bought over the previous two winters that sat unused in my produce drawer until, shriveled and dried up,… [click for recipe and more]