Greek-Style Lemon Chicken Soup (Avgolemono)
Comforting, healthy, quick, and a great use of leftover chicken! And so comforting and nourishing for sick little ones.
Simplest Easy Chicken Stock
The simplest, easy chicken stock that feels like home in a bowl and only takes a couple of minutes of active time in the kitchen!
Greek Lemon Chicken and Potatoes (or Celery Root) with Spinach
This Greek lemon chicken is roasted over potatoes – or, even better if you can find it, celery root. The chicken fat combines with lemon and oregano to roast the potatoes / celery root and doubles as a sauce for spinach, making this a true one-pot meal.
Pearl Couscous with Spinach, Lemon, Tomatoes, Fresh Mozzarella, Basil, and Olives
This lemony pearl couscous with spinach, tomatoes, mozzarella, and olives (in our house, creatively dubbed, “The Couscous Dish”) is a delicious and quick vegetarian one-dish meal that works for the whole family.
Nut-Free Galette des Rois (School Safe)
This nut-free Galette des Rois was made with chocolate and coconut filling instead of the traditional almond frangipane filling, making it safe to bring to school as a treat. The lucky child who finds the hidden orange rind gets to wear a crown!
Chestnut Tart with Dark Chocolate Ganache
This chestnut tart with dark chocolate ganache sits on top of a pecan shortbread crust and is topped with a lightly sweetened vanilla cream.
Easy Baked White Fish with Tomatoes, Olives, and Capers
This fish with tomatoes, olives, and capers comes together quickly and is full of bright Mediterranean flavors.
Brown Butter Pecan Cookies (Melt-in-Your-Mouth Style)
Crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth brown butter pecan shortbread cookies that smell heavenly, topped with flaky salt . . .
Healthy Dark Chocolate Pudding
This healthy dark chocolate pudding is incredibly rich and decadent, despite containing lots of nutrients and no added refined sugars.
Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cakes with Salted Brown Butter Maple Icing
These pumpkin cakes are moist, delicious, and easy to make. Warning: the salted brown butter maple icing is highly addictive!
Honeynut Squash Pie
This honeynut squash pie is the light custardy cousin of pumpkin pie . . . plus, it is made with fresh cream and no refined sugars! You may end up abandoning your sweet old pumpkin pie for her hot new honeynut cousin.
Pumpkin Gingerbread Muffins
These delicious pumpkin gingerbread muffins are made with dates, honey, and loads of spices . . . A Healthier Pumpkin Muffin Option Sometimes, on a very cold morning in fall, nothing is more comforting than warm gingerbread. But typical gingerbread is essentially cake. So I wanted to see if I could make a gingerbread that
Buttermilk Cornbread Pancakes
This recipe makes a fluffy, delicately crispy, and comforting cornbread pancake. My ideal pre-Thanksgiving pancake (but we also eat them in summer with fresh peaches, whipped ricotta, and maple syrup!)
Choosing Career Paths: Career and Family by Claudia Goldin
The book discusses the challenges modern women face in the career market, the historical ways women have tackled these challenges, and the root causes of the wage gap. (In brief, women tend to have more responsibilities at home.)
I appreciated that this book focused on the practical realities of what happens to parents’ working lives once they have kids. It doesn’t point fingers or blame anyone. Rather, it explains that couples are rational actors making choices based on the options in front of them. The book also describes characteristics of careers that are more likely to enable (and less likely to penalize) a good family-career balance.
Orange Fennel Chicken Breakfast Sausages
These orange fennel chicken breakfast sausages are sweetened with chopped dates and caramelized fennel and flavored with a hint of orange and nutmeg.
Skillet Chicken & Gnocchi with Caramelized Fennel, Onion, and Apple
This skillet chicken and gnocchi with caramelized fennel, onion, and apple cooked in chicken drippings makes a perfect fall one-pot dinner . . . It’s also super simple. You basically throw everything together in a cast iron skillet and roast it for about an hour. You’re left with caramelized fennel and onion baked in chicken
Orange-Scented Cranberry and Carrot Muffins
These cranberry and carrot muffins smell like sweet oranges and are filled with pops of tart fresh cranberry . . .
No-Oat Apple Crisp Recipe
If you prefer your apple crisp recipe without oats, here’s my take, you crazy kid . . . An Apple Crisp Recipe Without Oats It has come to my attention that many people prefer their apple crisp without oats. Frankly, at first, this was a little mind-boggling to me. Apple crisp with oats is delicious.
Feeding French: Takeaways from French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Le Billon
Karen Le Billon describes her family’s move to France and explains why French children are so well behaved at restaurants and eat whatever is put on their plates. She sets out ten French food rules, which I reduce to four basic takeaways: (1) A parent’s job is to teach the child to appreciate food; (2) Food is reserved for sit-down social experiences; (3) Everyone eats the same meal; (4) Keep food emotionally neutral (don’t use it as a reward or punishment). I also discuss our own family’s attempts to implement some of these rules, and our struggles.
Ginger Apple Crisp with Vanilla Maple Whipped Cream
Nothing says fall like a ginger apple crisp baked with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and vanilla. . . . Since the start of the fall season, I have been craving a warm apple crisp. Complete with all the warm fall spices: ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla. Apple Crisp is Fairly Healthy Typically this time of