Family Food Blog 

For our family, this pasta marks the start of High Summer: those hazy, lazy days when all we do is sit around eating piles of fresh...

To repeat the Monty Python joke I quoted a few weeks ago: canned chicken stock is, "like making love in a canoe."It's f-ing near water."...

I believe that rice should be treated like pasta: In times of emotional stress it should be eaten as a comfort food with a little...

When you microwave the garlic with the butter it cooks the garlic a tiny bit, making it sweeter and less pungent. With this recipe for garlic bread you'll win dinner and your breath won't ruin the rest of your evening.

Are you ready to grilll!!!!! I'm so ready. For several weeks this winter our grill was litterally incased in ice. I would have gone out...

I cook a lot AND I'm a messy cook. As a result, I feel like I spend a silly amount of time cleaning up the kitchen. So when I find a...

I don't play favorites. I Love all Turkey Chili recipes. If, however, I absolutely had to pick a favorite Turkey Chili-baby, it would be...

When the weather gets warm and I cannot bring myself roast vegetables because of how hot our oven makes our house, this is our answer to...

With a splash of cream your pesto can be both harmonious and dreamy without being oily! It turns out you CAN have it all! "It's Fiya!"

My sister Julia introduced me to this salad many years ago. I've tried other versions, using bread crumbs, different nuts, and dried...

One of my favorite things from the late 90s was the overabundance of sun-dried tomatoes in oil. For example, there was a Cheese Cake...

Sometime in 2016, I found a meatball recipe that I could prep while my kids napped. The sauce was muddled yet somehow tasted like tin,...

I have had sumac in my spice rack for a while, and it's mostly gathered dust. Thanks to the prodding of my friend Emily I did some...

I have had sumac in my spice rack for a while, and it's mostly gathered dust. Thanks to the prodding of my friend Emily I did some...

I make this garlicky and herbaceous lamb with chickpeas when I want to impress someone but I don't want to work very hard. It's also the...