"Such a refreshing, original take on cooking!" - Moosewood author Mollie Katzen
"You'll taste a generation of memories and feel the energy of a kitchen connected to time and place" - Chef Michael Smith
I’ve been buzzing with excitement as my new project, The Kitchen Party Cookbook, takes form! I spent the winter and spring developing and testing recipes for this celebration of the food and music of the East Coast. Let me tell…
Read moreIf you’re familiar with Hodge Podge then I bet you’re an East Coaster! A true celebration of summer, it’s a combination of perfectly new carrots, potatoes, beans and peas in cream sauce, a seemingly simple dish that is just so much…
Read moreHere’s a recipe designed to bring out the inner artist in you! This dinner salad practically begs you to add your own creative flair. Swap in whatever is fresh and beautiful at the market for the vegetables I call for,…
Read moreThe best strawberries are always the ones you eat on the drive following a stop at a U-pick or farmstand. Driving down sunny Valley roads eating an entire box of strawberries while throwing the stems out your rolled-down car window:…
Read moreHappy summer! This time of year finds me with a spring in my step. Swimming with the kids, weeding, reading, sleeping in, adventuring and stuffing my face with fresh vegetables is what summer means to me. Finding new ways to…
Read moreNothing says I love you like homemade pizza, at least at our house. The Father’s Day offering here will definitely be baked in the oven, not on the barbecue. The dough is so simple to make and so fun to play…
Read moreYeeeeehaw! It’s spring. It’s called spring because it just kind of…springs on you. Among the signs of full-on spring at the markets are bundles of fat asparagus spears and fiddleheads along with bunches of chives and sometimes, teeny garlic greens….
Read moreOhhhhh Mother’s Day. As a Mom who ran a restaurant for 15 years, I still can’t quite bring myself to go out to eat on what was, for most of my chef life, the most harrowing day of the year….
Read moreThis trio of Easter dinner recipes will make your celebration as colourful as a basket of Easter eggs! Click here for my Easiest-Ever Hot Cross Buns! Maple Mustard Ham serves 12-16 Maple syrup-making sessions are the earliest and surest signs…
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