when it comes to dessert, dates may not be the first thing that comes to mind. but stay with me here. dates a

what is with me and being seasonally inappropriate? i know it's not pumpkin season, but can't we just love pum

i realize yesterday's post also had the adjective "herby" in it, but what can i say, i overbought at the groce

i'm resisting the urge of starting out this post with a rant about the weather. i'm sorry. it's not original,

i've been on a quest for new breakfast options over the last month. it probably doesn't come as a surprise to

it's restaurant week in madison, which means there is lots of going out to eat for three course meals upon us.

borscht can be, admittedly, not all that exciting. it's a soup made with beets, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, a

yesterday, i wrote about honey cake, the dessert we ate at this weekend's russian dinner party. now onto the

this weekend, we hosted a dinner party full of russian food. the meal started with some borsht, moved on to a

yesterday i went to the grocery store and it looked like the apocalypse had begun. there was no produce, meat,

today, in madison, there will be a high of -17. i know this is not an original topic of conversation, but i fe

i have mentioned my love for jam on this blog an annoying amount of times. but i am typically a purchaser of j

it's kind of funny when christmas falls on a wednesday. since we've been celebrating since monday evening, i'v

when i was a junior in college, madison got one of the worst snow storms of all time. the university, which is

since this weekend was the last before the gluttony of christmas begins, we decided to take things easy. we wa

although i don't know the root of the tradition, every year, jason's parents send us a box of fresh, delicious

when i open my fridge and i've got a little left over bacon and a little left over brussels sprouts, it's not

over the past couple of weeks, i have had an unprecedented amount of culinary blahs. no throw-immediately-in-t

this was supposed to be a post about a really good venison recipe. but...the recipe ended up being absolutely

this weekend we threw a party that doubled as a birthday and housewarming celebration. it was so wonderful to

this saturday, i had the pleasure of visiting monches farm. even though the windchill was somewhere near zero,

in the build up to my favorite holiday in the world, i'm going for squash, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts, an

last year in november, we spent a lovely 10 days in france with my family, traveling through much of the north

if you were to look over the archive of my food entries, you'd probably notice a pretty obvious most used ingr

i wish i had more occasions to make special desserts for. i know myself well enough to know that if i made the

i'm in love with this dish. soycotash (a cleverly coined term i stole from trader joe's for succotash with soy

we spent this weekend in milwaukee for rochelle and josh's wedding. i somehow managed to not take too many pho

i feel like the last week has been more eventful than i'm used to during the brink of season changeover. we've

about 6 months ago, i opened up a cookbook that i got as a gift and tried to make the most ridiculous dish of

i've talked about rice bowl days before... those days where you need a dinner that creates the minimal amount

without fail, i get excited about recipes with sweet potatoes. when you add pancetta to the mix, it's bound to

there are recipes that are fun to make... ...and then there are recipes that call for you to light brandy on f

today i give you a dish with no story. other than the fact that i chose this recipe based on the fact that it

when there isn't much time or ingredients in the fridge and we decide to order out, jason always chooses chine

hello friends. it's been pretty quiet around here because, well, we've been busy digging our lives out of boxe

yesterday i showed you the mouth watering line up from this year's cheese party. i wish i could post the recip