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Lately, at my office, we are awash in overripe bananas. The company provides fresh fruit for us throughout the week, but I think someone has...

Courtesy of The Pioneer Woman Cooks , this simple but clever technique combines the tenderness of baked potatoes and the brownness of roaste...

I’m trying not to post any more recipes without photos, but I dropped the ball on this one. Initially, I was too disappointed with the way t...

First the purple potatoes , then these green beans (which I haven’t posted about yet, but they’re quite good), and now yellow squash—I’m st...

I mentioned trying this recipe a while ago , when I was desperate for something warm and savory (and leftover-hotdog-complementary) during ...

This may be the easiest recipe in my entire repertoire, and is one of the few minimal-ingredient, pantry-food-based recipes I’ve tried that ...

I’m usually disappointed by egg-based dishes such as frittatas; they seem to turn out either too dry or too watery, and usually bland, the k...

This recipe, known variously as the Mrs. Fields Cookie Recipe (note: I have never eaten an actual, official, storebought Mrs. Fields cookie)...

Cucumbers in their brine, ready to go into the refrigerator and begin the pickling process A snack-sized portion of the finished pickles, n...

I believe my love for BLTs is well known. My weakness for ranch dressing is a darker secret I try to keep in check. So when I saw this reci...

God bless the Pioneer Woman . First oatmeal-jam bars, and now this. I have never been a huge fan of salad dressing. For many years, I would ...

Bear with me. Thanks to all the traveling I’ve been doing this summer (Pacific Northwest and Indiana in July; Minnesota in August), I haven’...

I’ve long admired Jamie Oliver from a cuteness standpoint, but this is the first of his recipes I’ve actually made. I must say, I’m impresse...

Over the July 4th weekend I paid my first-ever visit to the Pacific Northwest, spending most of the time in Portland, which is revered as a ...

Courtesy of Simply Recipes , this is a simple salad that vaguely reminds me of my favorite summer meal, BLTs and corn on the cob. (Hmm, I b...

My friend J and I drove up to Somis and picked blueberries on Sunday! Blueberries always seem at a premium here in SoCal, even when they’re...

I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that I like making jam a lot more than I like eating it. (Whereas usually eating the food I ...

I mentioned this recipe a few posts ago , but it needed another go-round to work out the kinks. Attempt #2 happened on Sunday night, as part...

Hands down, these are my new favorite cookies. One funny detail I didn’t mention about the Broken Oven Fiasco is that during the insane fou...