For a little over a week now this URL to " Another Kitchen Blog " kept coming up as a referring site in my blog stats. But I could...

The best meals are the communal ones. When friends and family crowd the kitchen, taking turns stirring the pot, sam...

Well, I'll be. In all the busy-ness here at the end of summer, starting Nothing-in-the-House Baking Co. , selling at the DC Meet Mark...

Photo by Stephanie Breijo for BYT As the weather turns to mild and the evening falls a little bit earlier, my mind wanders to the joys...

A retro pie sign in Portland, Oregon, spotted by my friend Angela on her way to work!

Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes, what'd life be without homegrown tomatoes? Only two things that money can't buy--that...

Unusually colored vegetables can be a bit of a disappointment. When I worked on a farm in Vermont , I brought home a bushel full of those...

Nothin' too fancy here, after all it is just pie. jes' pie. chess pie. See what I did there? That little abbreviation and perhaps...

I've made a lot of pies with bourbon before. Banana cream pies with peanut crusts and salty bourbon caramel , drunken pumpkin bour...

A few months ago I called my ever-inspiring and resourceful thesis advisor and mentor Marcie Ferris for a catch-up and some career advic...

Yes, I know. Strawberries in late August!? Especially after I recently championed the bounty of the late-summer micro-season to a natio...

After about a week of late-night baking marathons, grocery store runs and just one minor exhausted breakdown, Nothing-in-the-House Baking ...

  Almost exactly a year ago, I moved into a beautiful group house of beautiful people (aptly dubbed The Dollhouse) in Northwest DC. One o...

Before Andy Warhol painted soup cans, produced static films, and posed as Robin & Batman with Nico (respectively), he apparently mad...

The summer between my junior and senior years of high school, I lived with a wonderful family in Brittany, France as part of an Indiana U...

 I was first captivated by the work of DC based illustrator Elizabeth Graeber when I saw the book An Illustrated Guide To Cocktails sitt...

I've been out-of-town for a bit, working long hours, living out of a hotel, and unable to bake.  But on the rainy Saturday before I l...

In old-time music, Surry County, North Carolina is well-known for its distinctive regional variation of playing, often referred ...