Welcome to the new Witchin’ in the Kitchen! This blog just celebrated its fourth anniversary this summer, and it felt time for a change. Aside from a new look and feel, I hope that the new design makes it easier for you to discover seasonal recipes, preservation tips, herbal medicine techniques, and inspiration from some of my […]
Happy weekend! Here is a recipe for the springiest of springtime recipes, rhubarb vanilla cordial. I shared this illustration last year on The Great Kosmic Kitchen blog, but thought it worth revisiting with the warming sun and coming new moon upon us. Enjoy!
The big move is in a week! I’m hustling to get everything packed up, gift away pantry items to friends (a tub of duck fat, a bag of bran, packets of yeast, a block of chocolate), and of course, wrap up my last canning projects of the year before the season is over and I […]
Mollie Katzen was at Sixth and I synagogue talking about her latest cookbook, The Heart of the Plate, tonight. With her groundbreaking hand-drawn Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Mollie was truly a pioneer for transforming the dinner plate and putting vegetables in the limelight, rather than the conventional serving of meat. During this golden age of […]
The last unofficial weekend of summer was spent with my family on Chincoteague Island, a tiny barrier island off the coast of Virginia. The sun was hot and the ocean water was cold. We made a big peach pie using my friend Kari‘s secret recipe. Ate fresh littleneck clams by the handful. Went for late […]
When summer calls for a dessert, I usually bake up a fresh fruit pie or find the closest ice cream parlor. But this coconut panna cotta with mixed berry coulis, adapted from a recipe from Heidi Swanson’s Super Natural Cooking, combines the fruit from the pie and the cold sweetness of ice cream and hits […]
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my […]
I remember my mom making jars upon jars of strawberry preserves when I was a kid. The preserves would be dark and sweet, and there seemed to be an endless supply always stocked in our basement. She didn’t use any other jam for our pb&j’s – only these preserves would do. As an adult, I […]
When I began brewing limoncello, the trees were still barren and we were thirsting for the first glimmer of spring. I’d gathered an armful of the last meyer lemons of the winter in a large bowl in my living room, without any definitive ideas for how to use them. But I’d also picked up a […]
As I write this blog post, I’m waiting for Indian food to be delivered. This might sound strange to most people, but for me, ordering take-out is a luxury. Food at restaurants costs a lot more than making food at home, and D.C. is especially bereft of affordable dining options. By “affordable,” I mean a […]
