All posts by Manly Housekeeper

I've been on a bit of a farro kick, lately. This hearty grain screams "winter" to me, especially when mixed with dark greens like kale. Even though I

I have lots of swiss chard growing in my garden planter boxes. A recent recipe in Sunset Magazine gave me the inspiration for a great

I'll save everyone the sob story, but let's just say I started out the new year flat on my back. Quite literally, for the first two weeks of

After baking an apple-cranberry pie for thanksgiving, I wanted to adapt those flavors to use for an oatmeal topping. I love topping oatmeal with cranberry sauce, but

Recently, I had a lot of cinnamon raisin bread in the house that was going stale. The easiest solution to  dealing with all of those bread ends?

Last year, I had some friends over to test potential Thanksgiving pie recipes. I got lots of great data, and on Thanksgiving ended up serving

Box brownies will never hold a candle to homemade brownies when it comes to quality and taste. I had a box of brownies that I wanted to

We're deep into winter squash season, yet they've never been one of my favorite vegetables to cook. I decided the problem was I just wasn't preparing dishes

I recently completed a series of fall food stories for Made Man. The goal of the series was to demonstrate that guys could make sophisticated