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Apple pie is one of my favorite desserts. When apples are coming off our tree in the fall, I make plenty but come winter, fresh apples are long gone. Over the years I’ve canned apple pie filling, baked pies with applesauce and apple butter, but lately I’ve been experimenting with something a little different: making…
Some recipes are more than instructions on a card. They’re stories, and memories, and something that gets quietly handed from one person to the next without much fanfare. An afternoon of flour on the counter and someone showing you how. I met John Browning at the Land to Hand Pie Auction here in Montana. We…
There’s a vintage cookbook on my shelf that I’ve been cooking my way through slowly — the kind with no glossy photos and recipes that assume you already know a few things. This fruit and nut cookie came from those pages, and I’ve been making my own version of it ever since. My version almost…
There’s something quite wonderful about recipes that come from another era, our grandmothers, their grandmothers — the ones written on index cards in someone’s careful handwriting, or tucked into the back pages of a church cookbook held together with a rubber band. Chocolate potato cookies are that kind of recipe. They use pantry staples, a…
Simple apple oat bars are chewy, sweet, and the perfect treat for packing lunches or serving as an easy but satisfying dessert after any meal. The chewy texture of the bars is full of hearty oats and juicy apples for a treat that is hard to beat and a bit of caramel frosting truly makes…
What if tending a garden, refusing plastic, or writing a poem was a kind of quiet rebellion? That’s the heart of my conversation with poet and author David Gate, whose book A Rebellion of Care invites us to reimagine resistance—not as something loud or grand, but as something woven into our daily lives. We talked…
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