

Homemade Pasta
Although I made homemade pasta in Chicago with Will, I figured I would never be so inclined as to buy my own pasta machine and make my...


Sunny's Creamed Onions
Sunny and Nana took this recipe to the Big House one year for Christmas, but it was the next day when we spread them over hamburgers that...


Wallace Pasta
This isn’t so much a recipe as it is a tribute. By the time I lived with the boys on Cherokee Road, Sallie Wallace and I had spent hours...


Better than Baltusrol Mashed Potatoes
If I have one vivid memory of helping with dinner as a child, it is always peeling the potatoes. One night, Dad and MaryEllen came...


Kitty's Squash Casserole
There might be a protest if we all arrived to Thanksgiving or Christmas at the farm, and there wasn’t Kitty’s Squash Casserole. Kitty was...


BBQ Potato Salad
This is another Vail Fourth of July recipe. Appropriate that I found it in a series of cookbooks that Ryan and Jenn gave me for Christmas...


Cous Cous Salad
Brenna Tally lived next door to me in Vaughan 2 during my freshman year at Vanderbilt. With her birthday so close to Christmas, it was...


Jap Chae
Casey called me one day to announce she had found the best Thai restaurant “in the history of ever.” My hyperbolic friend drove me out to...


Kalbi and Bulgogi
Korean BBQ is becoming more and more popular; I see it on Food Network, jars of marinades in the grocery store. . . Lucky Robert and I...


Mrs. Wagster's Chicken Enchiladas
As teachers, we are not supposed to have favorites. But somehow these three characters: Jack, Sam, and Wilson grabbed hold of my heart...




















