Recipes

What I cook

Every recipe here follows the rules in The Approach and leans on whole ingredients you can pronounce. New ones go up as I write them down properly, which is the slow part.

Golden seared herb crusted chicken breasts on a large platter with fresh thyme in a rustic kitchen

Pan-Seared Herb Chicken with Spaghetti Squash

Fast enough for a weeknight, good enough that it never feels like you settled.

  • Main Course
  • Two pans

50 min · Serves 4

A steaming cast iron pot of pinto beans topped with fresh thyme beside a wooden ladle

Organic Pinto Beans

Built flavorful from the first minute, never just salt and water. The pot of beans from the Sunday cook-up.

  • Side
  • One pot
  • Holiday

1 hr 40 min · Serves 8

A bowl of pinto beans with peppers and onions topped with a fried egg, with fresh cilantro

Organic Pinto Bean, Bell Pepper, Onion & Egg Breakfast Bowl

This week’s beans, charred peppers and a jammy egg. Breakfast in under twenty minutes.

  • Breakfast
  • Fast

17 min · Serves 2

Jars of golden homemade chicken and vegetable broth on a linen cloth with fresh thyme

Organic Homemade Chicken & Vegetable Broth

Saved bones and kitchen scraps, simmered low and slow into the broth everything else is built on.

  • Basics
  • Holiday

4 to 6 hrs · Makes 1½ to 2½ quarts

A bowl of warm spiced apples topped with oat granola clusters and maple caramel sauce

Deconstructed Apple Pie Bowl

All the pie, none of the crust work. Spiced apples, oat granola on top, and caramel sauce I make from scratch.

  • Dessert
  • Apples
  • Holiday

1 hr 7 min · Serves 4

Roasted red, orange and yellow pepper strips with chickpeas and chopped herbs in a cast iron skillet on a wooden table

Sweet Bell Pepper and Chickpea Skillet

My meatless night. The roasted peppers do what tomatoes used to do, only better.

  • Main Course
  • Meatless

35 min · Serves 4

A whole roasted chicken on a platter with roasted potatoes, lemon and fresh herbs on a set table

Roast Chicken and Potatoes with Lemon and Herbs

The Sunday anchor. One pan, and it feeds you again on Monday and Tuesday.

  • Main Course
  • One pan
  • Holiday

1 hr 45 min · Serves 4, with leftovers

A large side of salmon under a green herb crust on a white platter with roasted vegetables and lemon

Herb Crusted Wild Salmon

Twenty minutes start to finish, and no acid needed to make it taste bright.

  • Main Course
  • Fast

20 min · Serves 4

Grilled portobello mushrooms, sweet peppers, onion wedges and corn on a dark tray on an outdoor table

Grilled Vegetables

Onions, peppers and mushrooms grilled in herb oil until they’re charred at the edges and sweet in the middle.

  • Side
  • Holiday

35 min · Serves 4

One afternoon, a whole week

The Sunday cook-up

The four things I make on Sunday that carry the rest of the week. Make them together and dinner mostly assembles itself.

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