It’s definitely fall here in Virginia. We’ve had two real freezes so it’s time for comfort food! And for me, comfort food definitely means soup. I’ve been making a variation of this Chicken and Gnocci Soup for a while now, and it is so damn delicious! Given how much I’ve…
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Since my sweet banana peppers turned out to be mislabeled hot banana peppers, they haven’t been picked as much as I had hoped. Usually my peppers just get eaten straight off the plant by my mother when she comes by to visit, but she doesn’t do that when they’re this…
Yesterday my mom came over and we took down a lot of the summer garden. A lot of plants still looked healthy, but they just aren’t going to produce any more fruit for the rest of the year. And some plants look like crap but they clearly are still going…
I’m really surprised to find that I haven’t posted a risotto recipe. It’s kind of my go-to comfort food. And I distinctly remember making a dish really similar to this a couple month ago because one of my coworkers started drooling at the smell of my leftovers at lunch time. …
Is there anything that screams FALL!!!! quite like pumpkin bread? It’s warm, decadent, and oh-so-delicious. And for some reason we call it bread instead of cake and convince ourselves that we aren’t eating cake. My brother came to town last night and the whole family was supposed to go over…
Like every basic bitch on the east coast, I’m super excited for the fall. Sweater weather, fire pits, and of course, the return of comfort food. Because who’s really eating butternut squash or Brussels sprouts in the middle of summer? Well, maybe I still do that but not with the…