ShareTweet Summer is the time of freedom, of flashlight tag, capture the flag marathons spread over days, and movie nights on weeknights. But it’s also the time when meals can start to slide towards the less healthy: hot dogs by the pool, daily Italian ices, and burgers at swim meets. Having a batch of homemade… Continue Reading
Category Archives: comfort food
Bruschetta with Homemade Ricotta and Slow Roasted Tomatoes
ShareTweet This weekend, we baked and cooked as a family for the Chicago Food Swap. With the exception of a few challah loaves, everything we made for the swap was from Jennie Perillo’s new cookbook Homemade with Love. Steve and Bella made her buttermilk donuts in lemon and decadent dark chocolate. I made slow roasted tomatoes and homemade… Continue Reading
Sweet Potato and Sausage Stew: End World Hunger One Sweet Potato at a Time
ShareTweet Today, food bloggers all over the web will be showcasing sweet potato recipes. In partnership with One, led by Jane and Alice, we want to bring attention to world hunger by sharing warm and filling sweet potato recipes. Sweet potatoes are very nutritious and easy to grow in many climates: a great mascot to… Continue Reading
Cinnamon Infused Olive Oil and Dreams of Chile
ShareTweet The weather in Chicago has been brutally cold for the last week. The cold is slowly taking over the house. We’ve been adding layers and wearing slippers, but the best way to beat back the chill is to cook and fill the house with great smells that suggest warm weather climate. Spices make me… Continue Reading
Chicken Soup for the Flu Plague
ShareTweet Have you gotten your flu shot this year? I got my flu shot, along with half of my children. But it didn’t save us from being hit by the flu plague over Thanksgiving break. The flu hit us like a mac truck, just leveled our family into a wheezing, coughing, whining mess. I was… Continue Reading
Salted Caramel Apple Bread Pudding with an Asian Flair
ShareTweet Dessert is pretty much synonymous with chocolate in our house. Chocolate souffles, hot fudge sundaes, and fondant au chocolat… as long as there is chocolate involved, my kids, my husband, and I just can’t say no. Fruit desserts, on the other hand, can be a tough sell, but at the height of apple season,… Continue Reading
Favorite Fall Recipes
ShareTweet Food is family. How many of your childhood memories are tied up with favorite dishes, shared meals, and family celebrations? I was always an enthusiastic sous chef to my mother in the kitchen, but it wasn’t until I left home that I fully appreciated them. I went to high school and college on the… Continue Reading
Whiskey Short Rib Sliders
ShareTweet I’ve been cooking with a lot of Whiskey lately. Cooking with the old Jim Beam makes me feel like a bad ass, like a kitchen rebel, even if it’s just tossing a jigger into the crockpot before racing upstairs to change and breastfeed my baby. From peach jam to short ribs, a shot of… Continue Reading
I Need to Make the Butter Sing
ShareTweet It’s been one of those weeks, one of those comfort food weeks. We’ve had some worries about Baby Sophie, some trips to the hospital, some scary tests. I had a glimpse of another motherhood, one filled with waiting rooms, kind technicians, and fear that makes you want to hold your baby close and cover… Continue Reading
Cereal for Dinner: the Ultimate Comfort Food
ShareTweet Warm cereal is not for everyone. Some people find it so unappealing that it makes them gag. But not me. Warm cereal is like a slow hug with someone who’s just wrapped themselves in a cozy flannel robe hot from the dryer. Warm cereal makes my toes curl, in a very, very good way.… Continue Reading