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For That Special Someone: Slimy Green Potato Crust Quiche
KP Cooks: potatoes can make a delicious crust for a creamy quiche, blending fresh veggies and cheese into breakfast bliss. more
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Individual chicken pot pie with puff pastry crust.
A Pot Pie For All Seasons, or at Least This One for Right Now
KP Cooks: Chicken pot pie is a timeless comfort food blending flaky crust and a savory filling. more
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How to Chop an Onion Without Crying and Other Life Lessons
There is only one surefire hack to prevent crying over onions. It’s easy — just get your heart broken a few times. more
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From lattes to candles, soaps to pie, there’s no limit to how one may indulge in pumpkin spice’s warm, comforting nature.
Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake, Your Strongest Weapon Against the Winter
From lattes to candles, soaps to pie, there’s no limit to how one may indulge in pumpkin spice’s warm, comforting nature. more
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Ripe summer peaces at a local farmers market
Enjoying the Peachy (and Veggie) Bounty of Farmers Markets
KP COOKS: To celebrate late summer and the abundance of fresh fruit and produce from local farmers markets, here are three recipes featuring both. more
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It’s somewhere between sausage, clam, and something else entirely.
Geoduck Farci: Giant Sautéed Clam Stuffed in Its Own Skin — No, Really
Every food you eat is located on a spectrum between the familiar and the unusual. Favorite foods should always be the same, especially at breakfast. Every morning, it’s gotta be Pop-Tarts, … more
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Serve cheese over nachos or as a stand-alone dip.
The Nacho Cheese Revelation — Yes, More Cheese Will Save Us All!
The other night I had a huge hankering for some nachos. Usually, in that situa- tion, I would go to the store and get a jar of queso. However, in an effort to avoid eating anything containing ingre- … more
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Need we say more?
Meet a Pillowy and Flavorful Whole Wheat Honey Bread
I love bread in pretty much all of its forms. When I first learned how to make my own, I didn’t own a stand mixer, never mind a digital thermometer or kitchen scale. I enjoyed kneading dough by … more
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Asparagus: Welcome to Spring and Let Us Aspire to Green Glory
My appreciation for asparagus took time to develop. I was a child of the 1950s, a time when vegetables were overcooked or canned. Hardly a winning combination for asparagus. Not to mention what … more
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What America Ate (Even Before It Could Spell, Punctuate or Conjugate)
Just like a novel, reading cookbooks has been a lifelong love of mine. While my cookbook collection has diminished over the years, thanks in part to both the internet and a need to downsize, it is … more
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The bread is modest, but I am not.
Good Bread for Bad Cooks: It’s Not You, It’s Everything You’re Doing
As with most people who are good at eating, I also cook a bit. And like most of those people, there are a few things I cook well, more I do OK, and some I should never try again. more
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Raw organic black-eyed peas.
A New Year’s Day Dinner to Invite Health, Wealth and Luck
The new year brings to many a promise of a new chapter, a turning of the page. Maybe a glimmer of hope for a better you and a prosperous new year for your family. more
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Chef Barbara Van Bogart at work in her seasonal research facility.
The Great Holiday Cookie Swap Draws Near
For the uninitiated, cookie exchanges are a real thing, especially around the holidays. Dec. 22 this year is National Cookie Exchange Day, so there is plenty of time to organize. more
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It's easier than it looks but just as good.
The Miracle of Risotto
My dad hated rice. That and celery. He was a U.S. Navy ensign during the Korean War and spent a month on an ammunition ship getting ferried across the Pacific to meet his destroyer. more
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Brandon and Alanya Vuysteke on the farm.
YouTube Farmers on the Key Peninsula
Brandon and Alanya Vuysteke are a farming couple who have big plans for their property on the Key Peninsula. more
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Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks Was Easier Than I Thought
I am a cook who generally stays in her lane — keeping with the old tried and true recipes that have held me in good stead for decades, continue to work well, and have become second nature to … more
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Make Your August Pesto For Life, Love and All Things Good
It’s August, and the blackberries are ripe. That pie in the oven is distracting you from the monthly newspaper. Gardens are ascending to the peak of their harvest season, and there are fresh … more
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Even Dolly Parton’s Coleslaw is Larger Than Life
Dolly Parton and I go way back.   In the earlier 1970s, my siblings and cousins and I got ferried around a lot by one of our slightly older cousins in a sky blue Plymouth Valiant, the one … more
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Simple Brownies and Other Chocolatey Things That Are Good to You but Not for You
Brownies. It’s hard to remember a time when the thought of biting into one didn’t make my mouth water. Personally, I like mine dense and fudgy. Nuts are nice, but totally optional. My mom … more
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Spring into Summer with Some Easy Appetizers and One Dessert
While the calendar tells us summer is still a little way off, it’s never too early to plan ahead for the warm days we know are surely coming.  Thoughts of picnics, barbecues and spur of … more
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