If you read food blogs as much as I do you are probably sick of quinoa…and kale…and chia seeds…and pretty much everything else über trendy and healthy. However, there is lots of confusion out there about quinoa despite its popularity.…

Andrew, a good friend and also our real estate agent, says the moment he knew we were going to buy our house was when Patrick saw the deck and when I saw the pantry. He is right – it was…

Panic. I plan and I plan but somehow every once in a while I suddenly discover I have zero vegetables to serve with dinner. The emergency frozen spinach was used weeks ago and never replaced. The fennel bulbs I thought…

I am so excited to get this thing going – what started as a slightly boozy idea at the Fainting Goat on New Years Day, is finally a published product. The minute I mentioned I was thinking about doing a…

Spring has finally sprung in D.C. For me that means I get down to the farmer’s market as quickly as possible to see what’s growing. After suffering the laughable produce in grocery stores all winter I was ready to see…

At the Costello household grilling is not confined to the summer. Partly that’s because of D.C.’s temps and partly because we have a gas grill close to the kitchen. For me it’s also nice to get Patrick involved in the…