Category Archives: Carri Cooks

June’s Recipe

Confession: before this recipe, I’d never eaten a date. I didn’t know what they were like and was curious about them. They don’t really look appetizing and appear on weird charcuterie boards so I tend to avoid them in favor of cheese. But when I read Bread and Wine there is a recipe for something…

May’s Recipe

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted one of my new recipes I’m trying out for the year. This spring has been full of weddings and engagement sessions and I am not complaining one bit! In March, I discovered these delicious quinoa cakes and they have become a staple in our house and in…

February’s Recipe

When I looked at the calendar last week I couldn’t believe that it was the last week in February – how did that month go by so fast? And then it hit me I hadn’t tried out a new recipe for the month yet! I couldn’t fall behind on only the second month of the…

January’s Recipe

When I first inherited these adorable little soup crocks from my sister I knew the perfect use for them: French Onion Soup. Of course that was the middle of the summer and so they were put away in the back of the hutch and almost forgotten. But when my favorite new cookbook author’s recipe for…

My First Turkey

I love to cook. There’s something about working through a recipe in my tiny kitchen with a glass of wine in my hand that relaxes me. I always say if I wasn’t a photographer I’d want to be a chef – and so I married one instead :) And this time of year I get…