If I could brush my teeth with oats, believe me, I would. In fact, I was going to write, "I'd take a bath in them," and...

We couldn't help stealing surreptitious glances at our neighbors during the five days we were camping: there they were, cooking ...

This is the same as the rosemary caramel popcorn photo. Because I couldn't find another one. I'm so lame. Salted Caramel Pop...

I'm supposed to show them dripping with butter and syrup, but they're so delicious that I'm just showing them like this. ...

My children feel about any dinner with biscuits in it the way I feel about any movie with Laura Linney in it: however bad it gets, a...

When I taught creative writing at UC Santa Cruz, I used to start the semester with a free-write on oatmeal: 15 minutes of pen-to-pape...

I was getting a physical last week--whoa, holy Olivia-Newton-John-with-the-terry-cloth-headband flashback!--and my doctor said, ...

Michael is our household brownie baker, and in the course of photographing the baking of the brownies, I realized I didn't know a ...

Now that so many people cook well, I feel like my kids are actually being deprived of some of life's classic food horrors. Like s...

I would like to start by saying that I don't think Sungold tomatoes taste "like candy." I love them, and yes, they'...

The season is turning, and I love it. Our shelling nuts are out in a bowl with the nutcrackers, beckoning to Birdy like a siren song o...

Potato-Leek Soup Serves 4 Active time: 20 minutes; total time: 50 minutes This soup is so simple and so good, there's not ...

There's been some confusion here about what, exactly, the word "resolution" means. Michael is famous for setting the ba...

This is the time of year when people who don't do Community Supported Agriculture--aka a "farm share"--are laughing all ...

This beet dip is stunningly beautiful and so rich and tangy and wonderful that I will eat and eat it until it is gone. Maybe this en...