We have been cooking up a storm around here. There were people we wanted to see after our long trip, so we started inviting them for dinner....

This is the best sourdough bread I've ever made. During the week of the local food challenge I started a recipeless sourdough starter us...

Unlike the last time we went to the mountains , we brought food this weekend and cooked it. It was a fairly eventful trip: our friends Ken a...

I love making menus. I feel so happy when the balance is just right, using ingredients I have on hand—menu-making is not a success if I have...

I am trying to include a photo of where we were eating these dishes. This day we hiked to a spectacular waterfall in British Columbia, then ...

My mother made hamburger hash: hamburger, onion, and cold cooked potatoes fried together and served with ketchup. Yum. I've made all kin...

We just returned from driving to Alaska and back--10,000 miles and a morally reprehensible amount of gas--but we get good mileage in more wa...

The ex-girlfriend of an old friend of mine used to make chocolate zucchini cakes a lot. She would sit in front of the oven on a stool watchi...

Whoops! I guess the daily posting last week was too much for my delicate little constitution to handle and I had to take an entire week off ...

Check out these heirloom tomatoes I bought at Rosewood Market. The light ones are Eva Pink Balls, and the dark ones are Japanese Black Trife...

Yesterday again things got easier. It was the first day I didn't feel deprived -- I just cooked and ate some tasty food. The only thing ...

I'm settled in now after a few days of tumult. Tonight we ate: Biscuits made from Adluh Self-Rising Flour, Caw Caw Creek bacon drippings...

Here's where everyone else is posting about their week of local food. Today I was significantly less lame than earlier in the week. I wo...

Today I got HUNGRY. Again I took a South Carolina peach and a big container of cornmeal mush (made with Anson Mills blue grits) to work, and...

The Eat Carolina Local Food Challenge crept right up on me: starting today, for one week, I've agreed to eat only products grown and/or ...