Appetizers

My sister showed up at my back door last July with a bag of peaches from a roadside stand and a block of burrata sweating … Read more

I want to put together a Halloween snack board that doesn’t look like every other one on the internet. No more sad plastic cauldrons filled … Read more

I was standing in the grocery store aisle, staring at a bag of pretzel sticks and feeling completely uninspired by the usual Halloween snack lineup. … Read more

My niece Luna showed up at my door on a Tuesday afternoon, already in her sparkly cat-ear headband, two weeks before Halloween. She had that … Read more

Third batch of mummy dogs in six days and I finally stopped overthinking the eyes. The first two rounds looked like anxious little ghosts—too much … Read more

I used to think themed food boards were for people with way more patience than me. Honestly, the idea of arranging things into a specific … Read more

My first batch of pickled jalapeños came out sad. Limp. Soggy. The kind of sad that makes you wonder why you bothered slicing all those … Read more

There used to be a little deli on the corner of Elm and 4th that made the most incredible pigs in a blanket I have … Read more

I figured game day food had to be complicated to be good. It took about one Super Bowl of watching someone else stress over seven … Read more

The whole platter was gone by halftime. I’m not exaggerating—my brother-in-law actually texted me the next morning asking if I’d made “that potato thing” again … Read more