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When I make cookies, I usually want something involving chocolate or oatmeal, often both. Sugar cookies seem to boring to ...

Here’s another secret I’ve been keeping from you: the best thing ever to do with leftover cherry tomatoes (or grape tomato...

This is my new favorite quinoa salad and it isn’t even really a quinoa salad. The original Cooking Light recipe called f...

I wanted a little protein with my spring rolls , and since A and I will often order nothing but an assortment of appetizer...

This one’s really an oldie; I remember making spring rolls for summertime dinners when I lived on my own in St. Paul in m...

I’ve been holding out on you: I’ve been eating this awesome oatmeal three or four times a week for the past month and I’m ...

Can you believe I have more than 450 recipes here (whoa), and not a single one uses Swiss chard? Honestly, I have nothing ...

Here would be a perfect place to employ the oft-overused (I include myself in this accusation) foodie phrase “summer in a ...

And with this, my “ Put a Fruit on It” experiments have reached their zenith. I saw the base recipe at Two Peas and The...

You guys, you guys, I’m back from my (sort of inadvertent) summer blog break and I have a backlog of SO MANY delicious rec...

I just can’t care about rice. I mean, whatever, I respect its right to exist, I recognize that it’s a vital and versatile ...

In my misguided youth (specifically, the college and immediate postcollege years), I had a brief but intense love affair w...

When I spotted tomatillos at the farmer’s market, I immediately craved salsa verde. The trouble is, I only have one recipe...

Yep, this is totally my Summer of Putting Fruit Everywhere. Strawberries on pizza ! Blueberries in corn salad ! And now, p...

(I made the mistake of trying to use my new purple Fiestaware bowl for this photo, to match the berries. Huge mistake! It ...

Roasted strawberries! I had never heard of such a thing before, but of course it makes perfect sense. (More sense than str...

Once I get interested in a food I can get a little obsessive about it (see: poached eggs, quinoa, feta, fritters), especia...

Clearly, even though I keep telling myself I’m not in the market for any more pasta recipes, I am still powerless to resis...

Strawberry pizza, what what what? And not some wimpy dessert pizza, either. I’ll put just about anything on a pizza, inclu...