Comfort Food Classics

By the third time I made stuffed acorn squash that week, I’d stopped pretending it was just for dinner. Tuesday, I ate one cold over … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from the quietest person in the neighborhood, but there I was, standing in the middle of a community garden plot … Read more

There used to be a tiny diner called The Rusty Spoon off Highway 9 that made a cinnamon roll casserole that was pure magic. When … Read more

Ground beef slipping through my fingers, ketchup splattered on the counter, and the timer beeping because I forgot to set it for the potatoes. That … Read more

A friend of mine swore she hated mushrooms. For years. Like, the kind of hatred where she’d pick them out of soup with the precision … Read more

The neighborhood bake sale was in four hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, I’d signed up weeks ago with all the confidence in the … Read more

I want banana bread right now, and I have everything except patience. That’s the thing about overripe bananas — they don’t give you a warning. … Read more

Rotisserie chicken was supposed to be my shortcut to a fancy weeknight dinner. It took about twenty minutes of staring at the bare bones in … Read more

Late September in my grandma’s kitchen always smelled like vinegar and patience. She’d be at the counter, a pile of green tomatoes from the garden … Read more

There used to be a tiny Southern diner tucked behind a gas station off Highway 11 called Miss Dottie’s that made a brown sugar glazed … Read more