Appetizer Recipes

Last November, I was standing in my neighbor Diane’s kitchen, watching her wrestle with a bag of frozen chicken that had somehow become one solid … Read more

I was standing in my neighbor Maria’s kitchen last October, helping her clean out a massive jack-o’-lantern she’d grown in her backyard. The thing was … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a drizzly Tuesday in March, and I had a fierce hankering for something salty, chewy, and preferably dunked in something … Read more

The Halloween block party was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. My neighbor Karen—you know the type, she embroiders her own aprons—had texted the … Read more

The summer I turned thirty, I found myself standing in a grocery store aisle at 9 PM on a Tuesday, staring at a package of … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Wednesday in October, and I was supposed to be meal-prepping for the week. Honestly, I had a block … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Tuesday in October, and I was hit with the kind of craving that doesn’t make sense during daylight … Read more

I was standing in line at the post office last November, clutching a package of Christmas gifts I was embarrassingly early to send, when the … Read more

My neighbor Carla wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder—our fence had blown over in a storm—and the smell hit … Read more

The work potluck was in four hours and I had completely forgotten. I mean, the email had been sitting in my inbox for a week, … Read more