Hey, I made a good pie crust! Like, the real way: cutting the butter in with a fork and a cool, fast hand, then chilling the dough, then rol...

Apropos of not much, here are some local beets from the All-Local Farmers Market. They were so tender and delicious -- quite a bit juicier a...

The point of this post is to record my mojito recipe. I had it down last year, but I managed to completely forget my recipe over the winter ...

We have Thai basil and regular basil growing steadily now (except for the Japanese beetles chowing down on them every night), and the All-Lo...

The first garden foods are beginning to creep in to our meals. We don't have enough tomatoes yet to eat plain -- the rats got to the fir...

And so it begins again. I picked up some local crowder peas at the Rosewood Market and cooked them very simply with bacon, salt, and the fir...

Spicy pork tacos! I don't know why that requires an exclamation point, but it does. Lawson smoked a pork butt last week. We ate the meat...

So I made a pipián, the pre-Columbian dish made from toasted squash seeds, tomatillos, chiles, cilantro, and a few other things ground up an...

I took the shortcut tonight and made an aioli-type sauce based on mayonnaise, mixed with yogurt to make it lighter--after all, farmed salmon...

I saw rhubarb at the grocery store last week (nobody I know seems to grow it) and got to thinking about the rhubarb sauce you used to make w...

I went to a conference of piano teachers over the last three days. We opened with a three-hour meeting of the board, with a break for "...

This salad may never happen again, because it required hyper-fresh crab meat and just the perfect ingredients. But it came together nicely -...

I failed to come up with a unified menu last night. Various things in the refrigerator cried out to be used NOW. I ended up with Japanese, M...

Every year at the beach Lawson makes crab cakes. But this year we brought the crabs back home to pick, and I made the crab cakes. I used a s...

We had a birthday party for Grandma yesterday. First we had a recital of two-piano music by Donizetti, J. C. Bach, Schumann, and Mozart. The...