Recipes for Real Life
As someone who cooks for two most nights, tacos are one of those dinners I come back to again and again. They’re fast, flexible, and easy to scale. These ground turkey tacos are a regular in our rotation because they hit that sweet spot between comforting and fresh—simple enough for a busy weeknight, but festive …
If you’ve been cooking along with me for a while, you know I’m not flashy in the kitchen—I’m practical, consistent, and deeply loyal to the recipes that earn a permanent spot in our rotation. This simple bruschetta recipe is one of those recipes. It’s our main use for our No Knead Bread recipe, and it …
Our About page has been updated to better reflect how I cook, plan, and develop recipes—and I wanted to share a few highlights here. I cook homemade meals for two, about five nights a week. On average, that looks like a mix of: To make that rhythm work, I rely on simple meal-planning tools: For …
I didn’t grow up making a no knead bread recipe or any bread of any kind. Honestly, I never had much interest in it—until the pandemic, when it felt like everyone was suddenly baking sourdough. Like a lot of home cooks, I jumped in, taught myself the basics, and spent months feeding and baking with …
As someone who’s been cooking for two for years now, I’ve really come to appreciate recipes that don’t leave me swimming in leftovers. I love mashed potatoes, but for the longest time, I used to make an entire bag at a time — and then we’d be eating mashed potatoes all week long. That’s a …