eat your dark green leafies
When the cat’s away, the mice … eat dark green leafies? This past week, I experienced a sort of preview of coming attractions: being an empty nester. With my daughter…
winter is coming—and so is delicious winter squash!
Yeah, yeah. I know: it’s pumpkin spice season. Pumpkin everything season: seriously, when did Halloween decorations start appearing before the first day of school?!? But I’d like to put in…
3 tips for easily cooking from scratch more often
“Uggghhh. I know cooking from scratch is better for me, but it’s just so hard!” When I ask people why they don’t get back to the kitchen and cook from…
7 basic kitchen formulas + 1 fantastically simple recipe
Ever tried to make up a recipe—only to have it fail completely? (I swear this is where bad 70s hippie food came from: people making stuff up without any background…
are beans truly Instagram-worthy?
Are beans Instagram-worthy? As much as I appreciate good food porn, I admit to feeling that part of the reason Americans no longer cook from scratch is that we feel…
zucchini glut
It’s zucchini season—and if you don’t have neighbors guiltily leaving you their surplus under the cover of nightfall so as to avoid detection, consider yourself very lucky! I have four…
you say soft serve, i say … creemee?
You say soft drink, I say soda. (Just please don’t call it pop.) You say soft serve, I say creemee. Tomayto—tomahto. Potayto—potahto. Philly cheese steak, Cincinnati chili, Chicago-style pizza, New…
Am I in climate change denial?
To everything there is a season…. Some of you might know where in the Bible that line comes from. And I know at least half of you went there: turn,…
Confessions of a picky eater
Thanks to a long, cool, wet Spring, this year’s peak produce season is about two weeks behind schedule, and the sense that the long-awaited tomato season is probably going to…
Vitamin P(ee)
One of the principles of Integrative Nutrition® is the idea of bioindividuality: what is healthy for one person may be toxic to another, whether we’re talking about secondary foods (what…
What’s for dinner, Mom?
what’s for dinner, mom? For a working woman, that one innocent question at the end of the day can cause a lot of stress. (Yes, yes, I know men cook,…
Soup weather
what happened? That’s right: I’m baaack! Thanks to everyone who reached out and said, “What happened? Are you alright? I didn’t see a new blog post last week!” Yeah, I’m…
Oxymorons, their opposite … and hot breakfast
If you’re a working mom … ha, what is the opposite of an oxymoron? I mean, if an oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two seemingly opposite ideas (living…
Thanksgiving 2017 Helpline
Have you downloaded the Fl!p Your K!tchen Thanksgiving 2017 recipe packet yet? If you have and you have questions about the recipes or the strategy that will help you cook…
Granola | GOOD 70s hippie food
Back in the 90s when I was working for a caterer in Boulder, CO, one of my coworkers also hailed from Vermont. The two of us would often talk about “back home.” Jordan,…
Because taxes. (And because chocolate.)
A few weeks ago, after finally registering the copyright for Fl!p Your K!tchen, I asked a question of my Facebook hivemind: what tasks do you put off and put off and…
The 101st Way to Cook Zucchini
It’s that time of year – when gardeners start leaving “gifts” of zucchini on their neighbors’ doorsteps in the middle of the night so they can’t be refused…. This recipe…
