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Meaghin Kennedy is a writer and photographer who advocates for a sustainable food system. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
After my previous disastrous canning attempt, I needed a victory in the preserving department. I wanted to make something that was flavorful enough to keep me interested, but as easy as hitting a lobbed softball. I chose apple butter. This apple butter tastes like mulled cider in a more solid form. It’s perfect for a [...]
I hesitated to pick this recipe initially. It seemed healthy, but in a completely predictable way. Farro and roasted vegetables sounds like something I should eat, but don’t necessarily crave. I couldn’t have missed the mark more! After a few bites, we quickly christened this dish “healthy fried rice”. It’s obviously neither made with rice [...]
Thanksgiving 2011 is one for the record books. We used our kitchen so thoroughly that it now feels like a shell of its former self. We also managed to run a “bed and breakfast” with our parents staying with us, bunked out on our sofa bed and an air mattress in my office! There were [...]
Sam and Evi are good friends of ours from Washington, DC. Well, technically, Evi is a good friend of ours from DC, but we didn’t meet Sam until after we moved! Extremely long story short, we met Evi when she was part of another couple. Right around the time we got married, Evi and “Guy [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and friends. I hope tomorrow is filled with good conversation, even better food, and maybe even a satisfying afternoon nap! Both of our families are in town and we’ve spent today trekking all over Brooklyn gathering up ingredients. Last Friday, I picked up a few stunning dried flower [...]
Sometimes I make a dish and realize that I’ll never have to experiment with another version of the recipe again: the one I just made is the only one I need. This broccoli-cheddar soup is one such dish. As a kid, I’d ladle out massive quantities of broccoli-cheddar soup when we went to buffets like [...]
I found myself smiling and nodding along to a video about butchery. BUTCHERY. There’s nothing more inspiring to me than watching people who love their profession share their skills to make other’s lives easier. In this case, Farmstead Meatsmith is a family artisan butcher created to aid small-scale animal farmers in the Puget Sound region [...]
Working from home has its perks (hot chocolate breaks, cuddles with my cat, sweatshirts), but sometimes I just have to get out of the apartment. When I feel stir-crazy, I tend to wander. Often I don’t have a specific destination in mind, but rather leave on an impulse, thinking thoughts like ‘today I’ll wander to [...]
Some weeks, I sail along in the kitchen, eager to cook, with meals developing easily and inspiration everywhere I look. Other weeks, I find myself in an inspirational black hole, struggling to contemplate what to cook for dinner or what to buy at the farmers’ market. Snapping out of this funk is critical because a) [...]
In my mind, the reason “Brussels sprouts” is capitalized is because they’re some of the best vegetables around. In reality, the little green cabbages are named after Brussels, Belgium, the location where they were originally cultivated. Despite their prominent capitalization–the veggie equivalent of being named a Dame or Knight–people remain sharply polarized over Brussels sprouts. [...]
