I have always enjoy seasonal cooking. Not only is the environmentally smart thing to do, but making the passage of the year with the seasonal favorites has always felt deeply special to me. In a year when the days began running together into a blur of weeks and months, it has felt (and continues toContinue reading “Seasonal Cues”
Author Archives: Jessica
Savory Breakfast Bowls
I will not lie and tell you I don’t occasionally enjoy a cinnamon roll for breakfast now and then, but a savory breakfast is one of the greater joys in life. Over the spring and summer, I craved flavor and protein and never thought I could get enough kale on my plate. The summer gardenContinue reading “Savory Breakfast Bowls”
Veggies and Dumplings
A few weeks before the pandemic began to sweep across the county, I caught the flu at office. It quickly spread through the house, putting my husband flat on his back for nearly a week and my daughter a fever so high I wanted to take take her to the emergency room (the doctor saidContinue reading “Veggies and Dumplings”
2020
It’s been a minute. Actually, it’s been a year. When I started this little website I had big dreams of spending a few weekends a year sharing my love of cooking with others. I carefully chose the word gather. It felt warm — and it felt like fun. I desperately wanted to do something fun.IContinue reading “2020”
Getting Cozy
I have no guests coming over this weekend and I have no social engagements to attend. The holiday hubbub has subsided and I am grateful for it. It’s time to be home and get my hygge on! Thanksgiving to Christmas is a running start into what I think of as the cozy season and it’sContinue reading “Getting Cozy”
Baking Bender
These are the sort of things that happen when I don’t have to be at the office: whole wheat and honey bread with flax and oats.
Holiday Wrap Up Part II
The week of Christmas promised one potluck, two big family parties, and at least six hour in the car. I’m always ready to show others how “not different” plant based cooking can be, so I tend to not hold back when given the opportunity to show off a little bit. To take to the potContinue reading “Holiday Wrap Up Part II”
Holiday Wrap Up Part I
Friends, consider this the post-early Thanksgiving holiday wrap up. I haven’t stopped cooking for months and it’s been a blur of of whisks and a haze of flour for weeks on end. As I come out come down from the sugary buzz of all the delicious treats and warm happy feeling a slice of homemadeContinue reading “Holiday Wrap Up Part I”
How I cook
Some people know how to cook, others know how to follow a recipe. These are both important but very different skills one may possess. Curious family, friends and colleagues have often said they’d eat “better” or with “less meat” if they knew how to cook. This is one of the reasons I wanted to startContinue reading “How I cook”
Summer Dinner Menu
The trees are turning yellow, but I know it is stress from this late summer heat wave and not from a shift in seasons. The gardens are still kicking tomatoes and a long day met with happily with a fresh and flavorful dinner, unless you are a cat, in which case you will find thisContinue reading “Summer Dinner Menu”
