Author: MaryKate
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Dill Pickle Meatloaf
I got this great 1966 cookbook at an estate sale that is just ground beef recipes. Growing up in the 1980s in the midwest, I ate a lot of different preparations of ground beef. We never had hamburger helper out of a box, not that I remember, but there were definitely a few different preparations…
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Morning Glory Overnight Oats
At the end of last year, I took a very cold trip out to the SeaTac airport area for a writing seminar with Anne Heffron. She walked us through a lot of exercises designed to help us figure out why we would take a very cold trip out to an airport hotel on a Friday…
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Coffee Snobbery, a weekend coffee odyssey.
Coffee. Coffee. Blog post. Coffee. Tea drinkers, go here. This post isn’t about the history or origins of coffee, but about making one great cup each weekend when mornings suck a lot less. Denise will laugh at the entire idea of ONE cup of coffee, but we do both love it in different quantities. Coffee…
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Reading Restaurant Menus: the despair and the glory
I just read this in an online menu: SHRIMP & GRITS spicy New Orleans garlic sauce, poached eggs, Cajun seasoned baked grits peanut-free, tree-nut-free, gluten-free, egg-free, soy-free. ALLERGENS dairy The menu writer appears to be working from the top 8 allergens list, which is fair, except they’ve failed to acknowledge two of the 8. Of the…
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Shaking it up: New Directions for Surviving the Food Allergy Apocalypse
Surviving the Food Allergy Apocalypse was born out of frustration-fueled conversations Denise and MaryKate started about 6 years ago. First we bitched about giving up foods we loved. Then we started talking foods we could still have; meeting, spreadsheet(s), blog. Logical progression, right? Denise is a lawyer. MaryKate is an historian. But we were both…
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Mango Slaw
I just spent a week in Hawai’i, the Big Island, and came home to cold and dreary weather. We hit avocado season there, which was amazing, but also found lots of fresh papaya, some passion fruit, and some interesting varieties of dragon fruit. But back here on the mainland, the tropical fruit variety is less…
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Warm Bacon & Kale Salad
This will be a quick post. This salad is really loosely based on some paleo salad recipe that I found and Jack made a while back. We really liked it, but this time it’s edited to use up whatever we had in the house this time around. The basis for that salad was sauteing the…
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Corn & Black Bean Casserole (vegan & gluten-free)
So this post needs to be quick, as I’ve spent the past two weeks moving and I’m exhausted. But this dinner was also quick — and hot and comforting. Well, the prep work is quick. It does take about an hour to bake. Keep that in mind. This is the first thing I made in…