The Beet Reporter

I had an exhausting day, waking up early to serve brunch at the restaurant and then hauling myself to campus to finish my readings in the dark, low-ceilinged library. It was bad enough being locked up inside all day, but the walk home was far worse. By the time I collapsed on the couch at [...]

The idea for this one came from the Barefoot Contessa cookbook. I was looking for another hearty dinner idea in this week running up to Christmas, and I stumbled across a lobster potpie. I don’t eat seafood, certainly can’t afford to cook lobster nor do I wish to learn how to prepare shellfish. But I [...]

Even though things didn’t go as I’d planned, I still ended up with gooey, chocolatey goodness. I wish that were true in life, right? I didn’t expect to have another plate of baked goods in my house (and be warned, these are not for the faint of calories), but it doesn’t even matter, because who [...]

Every year growing up, my grandmother was in charge of bringing one thing to both Thanksgiving and Christmas: her famous cranberry-orange sauce. She would bring a decently large bowl of it, but with how quickly it disappeared I always had the sneaking suspicion that much more of it was left at home. Coveted as a [...]