Last year this time I was out in Oregon, getting ready to cook dinner with my parents. The celery, mushrooms and onions were chopped and bagged, ready for the stuffing. Multiple heads of garlic had freed from their papery skins and the defrosted turkey was resting pertly in the fridge in my mom’s […]

We smoked a turkey in the Orion cooker. We whipped up garlic mashed potatoes and gingery peas and carrots. Now we offer an easy pumpkin cheesecake and an even easier homemade cranberry sauce recipe (I’m a big fan of recipes where you just throw it all together, cook for a little while and […]

For my money, there are few things in life better than an assortment of cookies, crackers and fruit clustered around a pot of molten chocolate.   This evening, my dining room table had the good fortune to support such a spread.  It was deliciousness in action.

Part two of our three-part series on how to do a yummy Thanksgiving has landed. In this episode we make creamy garlic mashed potatoes and gingery peas and carrots (this is not actually one of my traditional side dishes, but Scott doesn’t like string beans, so I changed my ways a bit). You […]

This month Fork You does Thanksgiving! In this first episode, we brine, smoke and devour a 12-pound turkey. Let me tell you, it was delicious. If you’re looking for a brine recipe, here’s the one we used.

I love the morning after we fall back out of daylight savings time. I love waking naturally and knowing that while my body believes that it’s one time, the rest of the world knows it to be a whole hour earlier. This morning, for the first time in weeks, I woke up without […]

The community of food bloggers around Philly just keeps growing and getting better. There’s enough of us around these days that we’ve decided to have a meetup/potluck (how could we get together and not share some food?) on Friday, November 2nd (and I’m hosting!). If you consider yourself to be a food blogger/vlogger/podcaster/writer […]

Check out this episode of Fork You, in which we make the meatloaf of my childhood in honor of National Meatloaf Appreciation Day on October 18th (and Scott denies the possibility that anything with that much vegetal content could be called meatloaf). Also in this entertaining ten minutes is a brief appearance by my […]

I’ve been immersed in the thesis quite a bit again lately, but sent off the latest essay earlier today, just in time to hang out with some of my favorite Indy Hall folks at National Mechanics. I had a terrific veggie burger for dinner and even had the opportunity to taste vodka that had […]

Recently, the carefree, relaxed grad student life I was leading all summer long disappeared. I’m not entirely sure where it went, but I know that it was replaced with a constant need to do work and get things done. I go to bed at night totally exhausted and wake up the in the […]