Comfort & Co.

If some is good, more is better. This newsletter has been dropping recipes, tips & real-life kitchen spoofs every week for a whole year now & I’m ready to bring more to the party. Now, you’ll get the same comfy, tasty letters twice a week on Tuesday's & Friday's. Don’t want that? You can change your preferences here. psst...just wanna jump right in? 👉🏽 Head to the kitchen for this week's post. Heyy girl, hey! As much as I love being in the kitchen, hands deep in some foodie project or task,...

TLDR: my most trusted DIY pantry & freezer staples I make sure we have so there's no excuses not to eat as good & as often as we do. Peep the pantry - here. 👀 Heyy girl, hey! You like tacos? Me too. And right on a lil strip in Gaithersburg, MD is a taqueria called Ixtalapala that is pretty hard to describe because of how good it is. Impressively authentic. Absurdly cheap (we're talking $2-3 per taco back in like 2021).Less than 20 min from the house. Bad combo for two foodies with an undying...

Real quick Reader, After all this time, I bought an Instant Pot. For 1 very specific reason: To make yogurt. Now I've been making our own yogurt for years but haven't nailed texture/consistency. Not with the "wrapped in blankets & leave the light on for me" oven method. Or the a-little-more-but-still-not-so-reliable crock pot method. The best I've gotten is what I call lazy girl yogurt (which isn't even yogurt at all, just strained clabbered (raw) milk 🫠). Instant Pot is the end of the road &...

Happy Thursday, yet again! Heard this this week: "variety is the spice of life" & wouldn't you agree? So here's a lil mash up of some things I discovered (or revisited) this week bc...what else is there to do during late night feedings besides read up on food & kitchen gidget gadgets? 🤷🏽♀️ This article about EVOO (extra virgin olive oil). Perfect read for the girl who wants to cook with better/healthier oils but doesn't know where to start. BTW, I raved about Rachel Ray growing up -...

Heyy Reader, Three weeks later, I didn't win the pitch contest because mine was too long. 😒 Ironic because brevity is like my gold standard for most emails. And honestly, I was a lil salty about it but - win some, lose some. "On to the next pitch," - my Husbo. Last week a couple of you reached out about some kitchen situations you've got that are stickier than a fat, center-roll sticky bun. So for the rest of you wayyyyyy off in the back, here's what these ladies put me to task on. Meal plans...

Heyy Reader, What’s your vision for your kitchen table? (Let that marinate like a delicious piece of medium rare steak laid over a mound of silky mashed potatoes ladled with a golden browned butter sauce & lemme know.) 🤤 There’s a dream kitchen that lives in my head - one inside a rustic barndominium with 20-ft vaulted ceilings, commercial sized walk-in fridges & a comfortable 12-seater gathering table. A dessert always ready to be divvied up. But really, my vision of that table is just to...

Heyy Reader! Two bits today. #1 - meals we ate that's all the rage The mini chefs (my two toddlers) & I have been bizzzzzzzz-eeeeeee in the kitchen this week batching up a ton of meals to quick-stock the freezer. I don't do memes, but if I did... insert some gif of a woman in a blur here. It all started Monday with this Autumn Chowder 🤤 I'm a sucker for fall so when I saw this, I HAD to try it. Despite it being 2•F here with a foot of snow - who doesn’t love a good throwback huh? Recipe is...