Making gluten-free dumpling wrappers is easy with this tutorial on rolling, filling, and pleating gluten-free dumplings! With just gluten-free flours and water, these pliable gluten-free dumpling wrappers can be used to make gluten-free potstickers or gyoza. This post has all our tips on working with gluten-free dumpling dough to pleat, store, and cook potstickers! This…
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Zucchini Pesto Pasta with Roasted Almonds
Creamy zucchini pesto pasta is an easy way to pack in vegetables. Blend raw zucchini into pesto to make it extra creamy and sub in roasted almonds for a roasted nuttiness. This creamy pesto pasta recipe is a refreshingly healthy summer dish – top with crispy pancetta or your favorite protein to make it a…
How to Build a Dinner-Worthy Charcuterie Board
How to build a dinner-worthy charcuterie board with ideas for what to put on a cheese and charcuterie board and tips and tricks for arranging a showpiece platter! Plus all the components of an Italian Salumi themed charcuterie board! Serve with basil artichoke tapenade. This post is sponsored by Safeway, a year-long partner of Snixy…
Roasted Butternut & Pancetta Risotto with Sage Oil
Creamy parmesan and leek risotto topped with roasted butternut squash, pancetta, and a drizzle of sage oil. The classic yet bold flavors make this creamy risotto recipe comforting and hard to resist. While the squash roasts, make the risotto slowly on the stovetop or hands-off in the Instant Pot. Either way, this dish comes together…
Pancetta & Spring Green Grilled Cheese
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 Load fresh spring flavors into your grilled cheese with this pancetta & spring green grilled cheese. Layers of creamy dill havarti melted between herbed pea spread, crispy pancetta, and asparagus are all grilled between sourdough slices with plenty of butter to crisp up the outside! Get ready to celebrate…
Ginger Lemongrass Pork Lettuce Wraps
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 These ginger lemongrass pork lettuce wraps with nuoc cham sauce are my contribution to a lettuce wrap party for two with Todd of Honestlyyum . When we hatched plans to use a lettuce wrap collab to try our hand at stop-motion video (inspired by Betty’s tutorial), I could have sworn he said “Hey, can I come…
Apple and Sausage Cornbread Stuffing with Sage {gluten-free}
Last updated on November 27th, 2019 Even though I’ve dreamed of city life since I was just a kid hoping to one day make it big in the movies, I’m a small-town country girl at heart. I like to think I’ve learned a bit of city street smarts over the years since I moved away from…
Texas BBQ pulled pork quesadillas with vinegar slaw
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 The neighbors got suspicious when they peered through the fence and noticed Lucas and Mikey digging a 4-foot deep 3×5-foot pit in our backyard. By offering an invitation, I assured them that we were planning to roast a pig, not bury a body. For my last 20-something birthday, we invited all our…
Pork tamales with chile colorado
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 We’re a very traditional family when it comes to holiday meals. For Thanksgiving, an enormous roasted bird sits surrounded by cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, and green beans. Dessert is always homemade pecan pie and pumpkin pie. Like clockwork, sometime around mid-November you’d…
Quick chicken & Spanish chorizo weeknight paella
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 I accidentally ate mac and cheese this weekend. It was not a moment of weakness where I thought, “oh, screw it, I’m eating this.” It was an honest-to-goodness mistake. We had some friends over for some BBQ this weekend and one of them brought over some bacon-filled deli mac…
Sweet potato and eggs breakfast hash
I’ve missed you! You know that raw excitement a dog feels when its human friend returns after being away FOREVER…or, say, 15 minutes? That’s how I feel about seeing you again. Amidst all the chaos over the past couple of weeks, I’ve paused several times to think about how I haven’t been very fair to you….
Sausage & vegetable minestrone soup
Last updated on March 31st, 2014 The world didn’t end on Friday, but the wild storms in Northern California kept us on the edge of our seats. Artichoke came running into the bedroom meowing at the top of his lungs around 6am just to let us know about the howling wind and pouring rain. Side…
Cheddar sausage buttermilk biscuits
Last updated on March 30th, 2014 When Dad tells you he wants Lucas to bring work clothes to replace the fence over the 4-day Thankgiving weekend, he’s not joking. No matter how much you laugh at him, he’s dead serious. Dad doesn’t believe in wasting a perfectly sunny consecutive three days (okay, fine, you can…
Sage pumpkin pork chops
I’m jumping on the pumpkin bandwagon, guys. I had some leftover pumpkin purée from my pumpkin pie muffins last week and I didn’t want it to go to waste. So I mustered up all the self-control I could find to keep from making pumpkin cupcakes loaded with honey cream cheese frosting and instead planned a recipe…
Spicy pork bibimbap
Last updated on November 7th, 2014 For months, I’ve been chatting with my friend Hee-jeong about getting together to make Korean food. I’m not sure where time went, but meanwhile, she had a beautiful baby girl and has moved back to Korea. Hee-jeong’s been offering to cook with me for the past 3 years and…
Loaded sweet potato portabella mushrooms
Last updated on September 16th, 2012 When I decided that baby carrots, granola, and string cheese weren’t substantial enough to thrive a week on, I finally dragged myself to the store. With Lucas still in China, I wanted something simple, but hearty. It could take no longer than 20 minutes, but had to taste delicious…
Cheddar cornmeal waffle BLTAs
Last updated on April 9th, 2014 When a birthday rolls around, there’s an occasion to build a culinary creation that you’d never normally eat. One that’s unique enough to surprise the guest of honor, and one that’s just greasy enough to make you feel a little naughty when taking a bite. After all, what fun…
Sweet and sour tofu
Last updated on January 12th, 2014 When Lucas gets the same leftovers in his lunch two days in a row, he’s usually not a happy camper. Don’t get me wrong, he’ll eat it, but he drags his feet in the process, begging, “Can I PLEEEEEEAASSEE go out to lunch today?” The worst is when I…
Pepperoni pizza quesadillas
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 I’ve been holding out on you. While I have been able to squeeze in a bit of time in the kitchen, finding time to write about it is a totally different story. We got home from Whistler/Vancouver/Seattle Wednesday morning around 2:30am, only to wake up a few hours later to a jam-packed…
Salami, eggplant, tomato, and goat cheese sandwich
Last updated on July 2nd, 2012 While a third and final qualifying paper tops my to-do list, I spend my time drooling over pictures of food, whipping up dishes of my own, eating myself out of house and home, and writing about all of it. It’s not that I’m avoiding work, but every time I…
Breaded pork cutlets stuffed with mushrooms and parmesan
Last updated on June 23rd, 2014 I’m pretty sure I could eat mushrooms for every meal and life would be grand. There’s something about these little fungi that make a dish seem super savory and comforting. This feeling most likely stems from my nostalgia for my mom’s mushroom soup chicken, which I’m sure I’ll highlight here…
Mushroom and leek pappardelle topped with crispy pancetta
Last updated on July 15th, 2012 Remember my mushroom craving last week? Well, I finally got my mushroom fix. Thursday night was an exploration in hen of the woods and black trumpet mushrooms; I discovered that both types are rich and flavorful, and their aroma is rather pleasant and innocuous. Beyond the basic fungi (cremini, portabella, shiitake,…
Lasagna bolognese with béchamel
Last updated on April 2nd, 2018 I love lasagna – layers upon layers of rich, decadent sauce, cheese, and pasta that offer up different flavors with each bite. What I don’t love about most lasagna is cooked ricotta cheese. It tastes like chalk when baked and is a colossal mistake when layered into one of…
Seared swiss chard and leeks topped with crispy bacon
Last updated on January 30th, 2014 This chard lasted less than an hour from being picked to being served in a deliciously fresh dish. On Sunday, Lucas and I visited my cousin Scott’s urban farm down in Hayward and came home with a bag bursting with freshly harvested citrus and greens. We first made a…
