Author Archives: accarnahan2020

A few weeks ago, I drove one of my best friends to the airport. She moved to the other side of the globe (quite literally) so the name of the game was comfort food. We used to live together and cooking in our tiny kitchen was a lot of fun. It was hot year round,Continue reading “New beginnings”

One of my best friends is in town! And we decided to tackle Shakshouka, Instagram’s latest pandemic food fad. Luckily, I had most of the ingredients. So we only needed a grocery run to stock up on zucchini and Jeni’s ice cream. Shakshouka is a mediterranean/North African dish that’s meant to be a hearty, breakfastContinue reading “Reunion Shakshouka”

Over the past however many weeks, I’ve been cooking a ton (but not writing it down to share with you all). I could blame the pandemic, and the life-altering shift everyone’s been going through worldwide. But I think it’s also in part because my progress has been gradual, and meandering, and I haven’t been ableContinue reading “Cooking in quarantine”

I find recipes very intimidating. Maybe it’s because I can never spell recipe right on the first try. (I always want to add an extra ‘I.’ Is that just me?) More likely, it’s because the format and process of bringing those words to life in the shape of real, actual food has always been aContinue reading “Off to a rocky, chocolate-y start”

To say that I am a disastrous cook is putting it lightly. I have shared soupy cookie butter pie at a Friendsgiving, burned and under cooked broccoli (somehow on the same pan), and hodge-podged empanadas out of half-frozen, half-thawed pie dough to create an end result that resembled a child’s art project more than food.Continue reading “About ac&ar”