Hi friends! It’s been a long while since I’ve been on here (see my Instagram for why), but with the current corona virus situation I figured now was a great time to round up some recipes to cook while in isolation! I’ve been practicing social distancing for a few weeks now, and have never been more glad to have a well-stocked pantry. I chose these recipes with a few things in mind: simple ingredients you’re likely to have on hand, few perishable ingredients, somewhat uncomplicated procedure. I generally have potatoes, kale, onions, and garlic on hand, so I’ve included recipes with those items ..read more

This post is sponsored by the Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission. Thank you for supporting brands that keep The Kitchen Paper alive and running! Happy first day of SPRING! It’s felt truly like spring here for the last few days — nearly 70 degrees, sunny skies, everybody on bikes and patios, and Marc and I doing all the yard work we can squeeze into one weekend. #fun? Totally fun. We recently demo’d our entire front yard, installed five massive raised beds, and are preparing to grow all the veg this summer. Maybe the long forgotten garden section of TKP will be revived! Ha! But let ..read more

This post is sponsored by Pacific Foods — a brand I’ve loved and used for many years! Thank you for supporting the brands who keep The Kitchen Paper up and running. Cinnamon rolls are one of those things I rarely make, since it usually means making a huge pan of them. I just can’t handle eating that many cinnamon rolls in one day, and you KNOW they’re best eaten the first day! Enter: small batch cinnamon rolls. I’ve been wanting to figure this out for a while, and it turns out it’s really pretty easy. More than just small-batch, these rolls are also vegan (but without all sorts of crazy ..read more

This post is sponsored by Pacific Foods — a brand I’ve loved and used for many years! Thank you for supporting the brands who keep The Kitchen Paper up and running. Welcome to your new favorite (ridiculously easy) meal: red pepper tomato baked gnocchi. This dish takes almost zero effort. I’m not exaggerating: it’s really ridiculously easy, and only has five ingredients. New year new … fast dinner? Sure. We’ll go with that. I wasn’t honestly sure this recipe idea was going to work, but it definitely did! The thing that worried me was this: I didn’t cook the gnocchi in water — I cooked it ..read more

This post is sponsored by Pacific Foods — a brand I’ve loved and used for many years! Thank you for supporting the brands who keep The Kitchen Paper up and running. I make a version of this soup pretty much all winter long. This particular version is the easiest, quickest version — it comes together SO quickly and painlessly, meaning you can have dinner on the table in no time. Hallelujah for potatoes, spices, and Pacific Foods Organic Beef Broth! The workflow for this soup goes as follows: sauté onions, then add garlic, then lots of turmeric, chopped potatoes, and broth. That’s all (be ..read more

This post is sponsored by Pacific Foods — a brand I’ve loved and used for many years! Thank you for supporting the brands who keep The Kitchen Paper up and running. I’m at the point of wedding planning (less than 2 weeks out!) where I’m having wedding stress dreams. Oy. Last night I dreamt that it was one hour before the ceremony, but I hadn’t figured out the backdrop NOR HAD I SHOWERED IN DAYS. Yeah. Good luck making all of that happen in the hour before the ceremony. I’m not sure how that scenario panned out, but I’m hoping the real deal goes a lot smoother! It’s only family, after all ..read more

I know cranberry and turkey sandwiches are a thing after Thanksgiving, but as someone who doesn’t love turkey I propose we move to cranberry pork sandwiches. Are ya with me? Who doesn’t love pulled pork? Pork shoulder + slow cooker = tasty, melty, delicious meal with minimal effort. This sandwich has a few key components. First, clearly, the cranberry pork. I threw fresh cranberries and a big ol’ pork shoulder in the slow cooker (along with some other goodies) and let it cook slowly through the day. By the end of the day it was easy to shred with forks and put on this sandwich! So so tasty ..read more

Sooooo now that Halloween is over, we can get on to cookie season, right!? I thinks so! I’m not the kind of person who puts up my Christmas lights on November 1st (although tbh I have no problem with that), but I am totally the kind of person who thinks eating cookies all winter is 100% acceptable. So here we go! These cookies are very similar to my brown butter snickerdoodles — I based the recipe off of that one, but added cinnamon and pecans, put them in bar form, and didn’t roll them in extra sugar/cinnamon. They also remind me a bit of soft toffee cookies — which are basically SUPER heav ..read more

I know this sounds weird. 100% fully aware. Pumpkin + chorizo IN LASAGNA!? Yeaaah… I’m not sure how we got here, other than sometimes my brain says “oOoh try this!” and I listen. Tbh, this was freaking delicious. You all know I love chorizo, and I admit that chorizo flavor kind of dominates any dish it’s in, so this lasagna is basically a chorizo show. You can totally taste the pumpkin in there, but I intentionally left out other spices because I thought it’d be pointless. ALSO, would you believe that this is the FIRST lasagna (and only) I’ve ever made!? I’m kind of hooked now — I definitely ..read more

This post is sponsored by the Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission. Thank you for supporting those who keep The Kitchen Paper up and running! I haven’t really announced this anywhere, officially, but the backstory to this recipe requires a little bit of an announcement: I’m getting married! In like … 4.5 weeks … SO SOON! I KNOW! I’m very excited, obviously, but am really only telling you this because of the pancakes. These pancakes are, definitely, the best pancakes I have on this site, and we all need to thank Marc for that. More than 3 years ago, shortly after we started dating, he ..read more