I used to live right behind the most incredible Indian restaurant in Utah called The Bombay House.  Every afternoon around 4:00, they would fire up the ovens and we could smell the spices all night long.  Tikka masala is technically a British dish, supposedly created in Glasgow, Scotland, but it sates my longing for all [...]

I learned the secret to perfectly textured basic cookies, and no, I’m not kidding you.  Perfect.  These cookies taste like they came from a store, but they’re completely from scratch.  No preservatives.  No weird derivatives for “mouthfeel.”
    
It turns out you don’t need them.
Butter, my friends.  Butter and sugar and flour are the basic cookie [...]

Today we made stacked pancakes, just like Almanzo eats on Sundays in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Farmer Boy. 

(This was one of our homeschool history lessons.)

Fluffy pancakes, crisp around the edges from just enough butter, stacked with melted butter and brown sugar in between each layer
…and barely-drizzled maple syrup on top.

Sweet enough [...]

Oh. My. YUM.

I have learned the secret to PERFECTLY roasted asparagus.  I am convinced heaven must be full of these beautiful spears. 

Grilled sourdough bread, poached eggs with vinegar and salt, roasted asparagus on a bed of thyme, topped with gruyere, broiled until melted, finished with prosciutto, thyme, a drizzle of olive oil [...]

We’ve been studying Van Gogh’s Starry Night this month in school.   Maybe “studying” isn’t the right word.  We’ve been playing with it.
I put a poster up on the wall, eye level with our toddler so they could touch it, trace it, and get really familiar with the painting.
The first night, I saw this as I [...]