Recipes and Ingredients

I used to be weirded out by soft crabs. I wrote about it.

I’m a Baltimore kid, so I’ve been eating steamed blue crabs as long as I can remember. I am a very skilled crab picker. I worked at a crab house when I was a teenager – Bill’s Seafood in Perry Hall – and on occasion, I steam my own crabs at home. Crabs are probably my favorite thing to eat. Sitting around a picnic table in your backyard is so communal – you sit for hours and hours. Your hands are so messy, you definitely can’t grab your phone every five minutes (that’s a bonus.) Slowing down is something I think we all need a lot more of, don’t you? Read More

I’m a soup girl. Love a big ‘ole pot of soup on the stove…bubbling away, about to feed me for a week. And when we’re in the dead of winter (and OH MY GAH, it’s cold) I like to make Alton Brown’s potato leek soup. It’s creamy, comforting goodness.  Read More

Figs…

They always seemed a little too exotic for me. Fancy pants. I didn’t grow up eating things like figs – we were more of a steak and potatoes kind …
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Rejoice, rejoice…the farmers market is brimming with local, gorgeous tomatoes.  (And corn!) It almost makes me want to cry. To see the tomatoes in my garden thriving…it’s something …
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Craft cocktails…in Federal Hill. It’s happening. Bookmakers comin’.

Federal Hill is about to get a serious biz option for cocktails and food in the soon-to-be-open Bookmakers Cocktail Club. Bookmaker’s is …
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I love sangria. Love. I even make a lazy version called Langria – it’s just white wine, Fresca and fruit. It’s completely delicious  – and less boozy than the …
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I’m completely fascinated by chefs who cook nose-to-tail style – using every part of the animal – like kidneys, brain, feet and more. One of the most front-and-center of …
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I love really good pizza. Give me a crispy thin crust with delicious, flavorful toppings and I’m a happy girl. My hilarious friend Richie would call my kind of pizza …
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Spring. It gives you a feeling of hopefulness, no? Me, I’m hopeful for asparagus. And peas. And oh yeah, rhubarb! (and tulips, peonies, hydrangeas…)

This post is a super …
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My Mom (um, hello…Peg Fitzpatrick) is Irish. Her great-grandmother Catherine Buckley arrived in Baltimore on a ship from County Cork in 1850 at the age of 16. And…when you see my Mom, you say…yep, …
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