This post is dedicated to Jess – happy 25th birthday! I hope you like the cake and that it made it all the way to Pittsburgh through the snow. Enjoy! I received an email earlier this week from my longtime friend Jess, who currently lives in Pittsburgh (because why not?). Prior to the City of […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Recipe’ category
Week 7: Creamy Winter Vegetable Soup
When my coworker told me to write about sunchokes (sidenote: I love when people have ingredient suggestions! If you have one, please leave a comment here or email me!), I didn’t really know what a sunchoke was. That’s the beauty of this blog: I learn, I write, you learn, and we all expand our horizons. […] Read more…
Mini Limequat Meringue Cupcakes
I was recently introduced to Indo-mandarinquats by a coworker. Breed mandarin oranges and kumquats and their babies are delicious little bite-sized treats with edible skin. When I was trying to find them in the produce section, I came upon another kumquat hybrid: limequats! A cross between key limes and kumquats, they look like miniature lemons […] Read more…
Week 5: Middle East Meets Far East
I discovered Japanese pumpkin (aka kabocha squash) at an organic farm in Apple Hill this past fall. They average about 2-3 pounds and have green, knobby skin (the ones I’ve seen in stores are darker green than the one at left, which lived on my kitchen counter for about 4 months). According to Wikipedia, they […] Read more…
Week 4: The Mother of All Grains
Quinoa can be intimidating – it doesn’t even have an obvious pronunciation. Pronounced KEEN-wa, it is an ancient food that originated in South America. The Incas called quinoa “the mother of all grains,” but it’s actually seeds from a plant that is related to beets, spinach and chard. The seeds are however treated like rice […] Read more…