Saffron Pistachio Soup is a gloriously rich and flavorful soup, possessing great depth and simultaneous lift with bright notes of citrus and saffron. This recipe takes simple ingredients and very little preparation—and turns that into a dish that could easily sit on a core menu in a five-star restaurant. “Oh my God.” “OH MY GOD.”…
The first time I had pancake dippers was in high school. A friend’s mom had packed a dessert masquerading as a lunch food in my friend’s lunch box, and we nommed on them in the stairwell one day, playing hookie from the lunch room. I remember looking out the window in the stair landing, sitting…
I MADE HUGE PERSONAL PROGRESS TODAY!!!! On January 1, I did five weak-sauce girl push-ups (or “modified” push-ups for everyone I offended by saying “girl” push-ups). On January 6, I wrote this blog about the inspiration behind me deciding to do push-ups this year, and I increased the amount of reps I was able to…
Sometimes you feel like a memory. Other times, my imagination. How many years later, and I still don’t know when I’ll meet you? I don’t think of you as often as I used to. I’m sorry for that. Forgive me. I haven’t forgotten you. But you seem to be on pause. Held somewhere in the…
That’s what I’m up to today. And that’s pretty dang good, considering I started at 5 wobbly girl push-ups at the beginning of the year! This isn’t a different new years resolution from the one I already made, but….See…what happened was I watched this video that showed up in my Facebook feed of this girl’s…
I didn’t know what to make for dinner, but that’s EXACTLY why I created the Flavor Crash Course—to eliminate this problem! :) See…I got home from my Christmas vacation in Nashville, and there was no food in my fridge. Luckily, in the spirit of Christmas, the week before, I purchased a cured ham nugget (basically…