I had a version of this back when I first moved back to the Pacific Northwest (my home!) from where I had been living in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Area is lovely, but it just ain’t me, you know? Sometime during my first week back, I found myself wandering around downtown Seattle, and I popped into a Whole Foods – not my … Continue reading Autumn Lamb Stew

IT’S DECORATIVE GOURD TIME, MOTHERFUCKERS! It’s also time for soup. Warm, tasty, nourishing soup. It’s Autumn (Fall, for you folks who hate syllables), and this year, Autumn feels like it skipped right to Winter, it’s a trip. And it’s cold. So here’s a gourd that’s both decorative and tasty as hell: The butternut squash. If you’re not a lazy ass, buy an actual squash, split … Continue reading Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

Sometimes I whip something tasty up in the kitchen, and it’s a simple matter of “oh, I have these things, this makes sense, I’m gonna make a thing.” Especially if I have a craving for a certain “flavor profile” but not a concrete idea of what it’s going to be at first. That’s what happened today, so this is the sort of breakdown of this “recipe” … Continue reading Truffled Mushroom Fettuccine