fennel, beet, and blood orange salad

This rainy, mild winter reminds me of being a kid: sitting in the back of my family station wagon, listening to rain drops on the roof and the squeak of the windshield wipers with the easy listening sounds of Carole King on the radio. Remember when the backseat could be the safest, coziest place in the world? What a bummer that grown-ups don’t really get to snuggle in the back seat very often.

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potlikker soup with ham hock and egg noodles

One of my lesser New Year’s resolutions was to eat more cooked greens. For whatever reason (somewhere between an aversion to extra dishes and a hatred of soggy greens), I’ve never really cooked my greens. Until now. So far, I’ve blanched and sauteed, and without a soggy green in sight, I’m loving the results.

Besides, if you never cook your greens, you’ll never get potlikker. read more »

chicken pot pie with winter vegetables

These pot pies were inspired by a vivid array of seasonal offerings spotted on a recent trip to the butcher. Besides meats, our neighborhood butcher has a nice selection of local foods and on this day I fell in love with a host of colorful winter vegetables. Purple carrots, golden beets, and pale rutabagas seemed dazzling there in the open cooler. So, we picked up some chicken thighs and headed home with our hearts set on pot pie. read more »

carrot salad with parsley

Though unlikely, mid-week lunch inspiration struck today. I had planned on avocado toast with over-easy eggs and parsley when I realized that the parsley’s true destiny was a supporting role in a carrot salad. So I grabbed a few carrots from the fridge and had this tasty salad made (and photographed) in minutes. Healthy and photogenic? Oh yes. Head over to Babble.com’s Family Kitchen for our recipe.

braised country-style ribs with cippolini

At the butcher, I felt a little embarrassed that I’d never heard of country-style ribs, given that I come from what is arguably “the country.” And even if you’re not willing to concede my particular home-census-tract is rural enough, it is, at a minimum, part of a country. Also, I really like ribs. So how had I not heard of country-style ribs? read more »

good things and a colorful winter salad

I started writing Brooklyn Supper, along with my husband Brian, three and a half years ago. At the time I was a stay at home mom in need of some community, and was looking for a way to document and share all the great food we were eating. I liked to think of food writing as my hobby. Through happenstance, and a bit of hard work, my hobby has turned into my career–one that I’m increasingly passionate about. But I have another career too–I’m a painter. read more »

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