At the end of last month I spent 10 days developing 5 breakfast casserole recipes for The Kitchn. It was a whirlwind of casserole baking, with several dishes made in a single day. So many delicious casseroles were consumed and shot. Whew, I’m tired just thinking about it. But it was so much fun and so awesome to see my… Read More

There is something about baking that always makes me nervous. Maybe it’s the act of closing something behind the oven door and just trusting that I will meet perfection on the other side of an hour. This pie in particular always has me squatting in front of the oven staring into its depths.

So often romance is about the grand gestures and we forget that it is the spontaneous little reminders of someone’s love that mean the most. Valentine’s Day has become such a commercialized occasion that many of us now send electronic valentines out to loved ones. I get it, our lives are often fast paced and busy but even a scribbled… Read More

With Chinese New Years only two days away, celebrate by eating the whole fish. The Chinese are a superstitious group of people with lots of time spent building wonderful and sometimes strange traditions around these superstitions. The traditions that exist around New Years are far too many to count and my family didn’t really follow most of them. But we definitely always… Read More