Soup season has officially begun, and we couldn't be more excited. The simplicity of throwing all of your favorite ingredients into one meal, and the quick and easy cleanup from cooking everything in a single pot is enough to keep a smile on our face all winter. Especially when you're full and drowsy and the last thing on your mind is doing the dishes. more ›

To help welcome the beginning of fall last night, we chose to make one of our all-time favorite recipes--hearty potato soup. The recipe was our mother's, something she would make for us when we were sick as a kid--and even now it's something we make for close friends who are laid up with a cold or the flu, and definitely a recipe we'll someday make for our own children. To us, this soup represents the warmth and comfort of being home. And we can honestly say, it's from this soup that we first taught ourselves how to cook. more ›

If you are unemployed, underemployed, or just hungry, there is a simple and satisfying way to nourish your soul and your belly. Bake your own bread. It requires nothing you don’t own already. Sure, there are lots of ways to complicate it, to make it more expensive, but they are not necessary. more ›