If you’ve spent much time in the Messy Kitchen, you know how I feel about food waste. If you haven’t spent much time here, I’ll give you the gist: I...
I feel I need to confess that when I hear “peaches and cream” the raunchy R&B song from the early 2000’s start’s playing in my head. I need it cause...
I can’t decide whether this is more appropriately categorized as an antipasti panzanella or a deconstructed Italian sandwich. “Deconstructed” is all the rage it seems, but it’s a bit misleading. It...
My 20’s are officially over, and I’m okay with that. It was a wonderful decade filled with more milestones and memories than I ever could have imagined – and I’m...
Lately every time I come here I have writers block. The Messy Kitchen is more than five years old now, which is pretty old in blog years. I guess it...
The weather in D.C. this spring has been straight up dreary. I’m sitting here with a space heater blowing on me IN LATE MAY. And I think I could count...
Sometimes things don’t turn out as planned, but they still turn our really, really, really good. This soup is one of them. It was actually intended to be a spaghetti...