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Guide to Planting a Boxwood Hedge

Boxwood hedges are a classic design element of both formal and informal or cottage-style gardens. They function as the structure or “bones” of a garden. Learn how to design, plant and care for boxwood hedges of your own.

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A small boxwood seedling placed in a hole underneath a string guideline sitting next to an auger and a few spring perennialsMany small boxwood seedlings lined up along a string guideline to form a hedge surrounding a bed of perennials on a small front lawn

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A plate of braised fennel with crispy charred leeks and chile-fennel oil with a jar of chile-fennel oil and a small bowl of dill
November 27, 2019

Braised Fennel with Crispy Charred Leeks and Chile-Fennel Oil

This dish was inspired by the fennel stew from Heidi Swanson’s Near and Far. I envisioned its flavours as a quick-and-easy roasted side-dish, one that would allow you to throw all of the ingredients onto a sheet pan, stick it in the oven and be done

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Several crostini of pan con tomate on a plate with a small bowl of anchovy aioli in the background
October 30, 2019

Pan Con Tomate with Anchovy Aioli

Pan con tomate is one of the simplest things I’ve made and one of the most delicious. It is essentially a Spanish tomatoes on toast, which, admittedly, hardly seems like a dish requiring a recipe at all. Of course, seek out a recipe and you will be m

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Plate piled with a Burmese-inspired Shan tofu salad and mason jars of shallot oil and tamarind dressing and a few small pinch bowls in the background
August 19, 2019

Burmese-Inspired Shan Tofu Salad (Tohu Thoke)

Tofu entered the kitchens and cultural-consciousness of the white western world largely as a curdled-soy-milk-based protein replacement of the 1960s culinary counter-culture. It was a culture that combined the tenets of various then-radical health-fo

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Two jerk chicken sandwiches with slaw and avocado on sesame seed buns on a plate

Jerk Chicken Sandwiches

I am watching the Bon Appétit test kitchen Youtube videos. As I cook, as I clean, as I get ready for my shift at the bar. Every time I try to coax myself into spending my media-consumption time learning about the ways in which the bad-faith concept o

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