Feed your family. Feed your soul.
We are often asked about cooking for one, which can be a challenge in a slow cooker if you aren’t batch cooking for yourself. Whether it’s a working lunch for myself, a meal for a college student or single retirees, the pressure cooker setting is …read more
These delightfully simple Eggs en Cocotte were a quick fix to the disaster that struck my kitchen yesterday. I made such a mess of an entire bundt cake experiment in the Instant Pot.
French Onion soup is a classic recipe which we first posted more than 5 years ago. The reason for a refresh is because we’ve had our heads buried in our Instant Pots over the last few weeks, developing new recipes for our Peapod meal kits.
Last week in our test kitchen I cooked my way through 7 1/2 lbs chicken thighs, 4 lbs pork roast, 1 1/2 lbs red lentils and 1lb of French green lentils. In contrast, this week it’s a very different scene and not a meat product …read more
We couldn’t let the 52nd Super Bowl go by without a knock out recipe for ribs and wings, with a twist.
We’re just coming out of the Specialty Food Association 3 day Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. A great show for us, and the highlight had to be when Meg received her Leadership Award from the Association. The recognition drew folks to our booth who …read more
It is customary after the Winter holidays that we introduce light recipes in January that complement many folks desire to rebalance their bodies.
On my travels this week I’ve come to Northern England where I’m discovering the delights of locally sourced venison meat from Yorkshire. In my home landscape of hills and dales, there is a lot to be celebrated.
In my first post since migrating back across the pond to Oxford, England I’m happy to report that I took delivery of my UK compliant Instant Pot and slow cooker this week. It has become an even more attractive cooking method because our temporary kitchen is …read more
After two failed slow cooker recipes in the same day, a blackberry jam which burned (!) and a cherry almond rice pudding with an unpalatable outcome, I gave up on the sweet stuff. Instead, I turned to a fail-safe favorite 2 minute prep recipe which …read more
I just stepped out of the kitchen to write this weeks post. It’s raining, and home with just my 8 year old we baked fresh scones for a neighbor in need and a soup for the week. So much of this experience reminds me of …read more
In the midst of a crazy busy week running between a Conscious Capitalism networking event; an export workshop at The Hatchery, expanding our social initiative to Beacon Place and beyond (more on that in a future post) and, an early morning round table and demonstration for staff …read more
