All posts tagged: dinner

Thai Spiced Pumpkin | Witchin' in the Kitchen

spicy sweet pumpkin

This hot, sweet baked pumpkin was part of the last meal I cooked for myself in the old apartment. At the farmers market, I’d found a large banana squash the color of orange sherbet, and it sat on the top of a bookshelf in my bedroom for over three weeks before I finally carved it […]

five favorite recipes from the blog (so far)

Three years ago today, I started up this blog with a recipe for ginger peach pandowdy baked in a cast-iron skillet. It was a year after I graduated college, I had a lot of free time on my hands after getting home from work, and I wanted to channel my creative energy into some things […]

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duck egg pasta

Like usual, Mom was outside, dressed in her well-loved shorts and bleached baseball cap, dirt rimming her fingernails and staining her knees. She was in a fierce battle with the crabgrass and wild spring onions that threatened to choke her irises and rose of sharon. When she called out, I ran to the front of […]

moon cakes

bacon-wrapped moon cakes

When I first landed upon Nourished Kitchen‘s recipe for black-eyed pea cakes, I immediately thought of dark little moons on a plate. But that was just my own association – Jenny has crafted these little cakes to be rich in meaning and celebration. The black-eyed peas are tokens of luck; the collard greens resemble dollar bills; […]

feature on nothing-in-the-house pie blog

A couple months back, Emily Hilliard of Nothing-in-the-House pie blog and baking co. and I started up a blog collaboration with me visiting her very pink kitchen and baking grapefruit and pepper tartlets. And now, Emily has returned the favor and has written up a lovely blog post featuring yours truly, plus my mama’s recipe […]

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vegetarian swedish meatballs

Nordic countries aren’t traditionally known for their cuisine. Blood pudding or fermented shark, anyone? This has changed over time, of course, as restaurants like Copenhagen’s Noma is consistently named best restaurant in the world, and one of its rivals for the top contender is in Sweden. But somewhere between the boiled sheep’s heads of the […]

Winter Rainbow Gratin | Witchin' in the Kitchen

winter rainbow gratin

You know it’s fall when you’re feet are always freezing. You’ve taken to shuffling around your apartment in your surrious smartwool socks in a vain attempt to stay warm. From your fourth-floor bedroom window, you watch squirrels building their nests in the oak trees. The air is cold, blessedly cold, making your nose run on your […]

tamal montezuma

This week is a big one. My bedroom is in the midst of a packing frenzy for Iceland – sweaters, colored pencils, scarves, notebooks, film canisters, and smart wool socks have barfed all over my floor. Should I upload the audiobook of Game of Thrones or Seating Arrangements to my iPhone? What about my unfinished knitting project? And how […]

summer bounty skillet cakes with yogurt cheese

July has been a month of bounty – an abundance of heat, heart, corn and cantaloupe, paintings finished and paintings begun, books yet unfinished (currently reading 7), journeys to the kitchen and journeys to the beach and journeys in staying still for awhile. This summer has been a peaceful respite from the busy-ness of the […]