Homemade

  • December, Pinehurst, Wings Again

    December, Pinehurst, Wings Again

    Mid-December 2025 at Pinehurst Tavern, ranch on the side, no particular fanfare. At this point in the year the wing-to-holiday-cookie ratio in this household…

  • November Wings, As Is Tradition

    November Wings, As Is Tradition

    Another November, another plate, another entry in what is by now an undeniable seasonal pattern. Some households have a Thanksgiving pie tradition. This household…

  • A Pinehurst Wednesday

    A Pinehurst Wednesday

    Wings on a wood table with a side of celery — a Wednesday stop at Pinehurst Tavern in Billerica, October 2025. Reliable, unfussy, the…

  • The Most Recent Entry, Sudbury, April 2025

    The Most Recent Entry, Sudbury, April 2025

    The newest pizza in this whole 15-year archive — April 2025, Sudbury, Massachusetts, photographed close-up on a wire rack in a style that would…

  • The Burst-Mode Incident

    The Burst-Mode Incident

    Three nearly identical photos, taken seconds apart, at the same desk, of the same plate of wings. I can only assume the phone’s burst…

  • New Year, Same Wings

    New Year, Same Wings

    Twelve days into 2025, and whatever resolutions may have been floated at midnight clearly didn’t touch the wing habit. A plate, a fork (a…

  • Three Angles of the Same Plate, Because I Was Proud of It

    Three Angles of the Same Plate, Because I Was Proud of It

    November 2024, and this batch got the full photoshoot treatment — three separate angles of the same plate of deep-orange, well-charred wings, because apparently…

  • An October Batch, Nothing Fancy

    An October Batch, Nothing Fancy

    Two photos, one plate, late October 2024 — a straightforward batch with no particular story attached, which after this many entries has become its…

  • The Charred Grill Pizza, Sudbury Backyard

    The Charred Grill Pizza, Sudbury Backyard

    September 2023, back in Sudbury, and this one has serious grill-marks-and-char energy — a heavily blistered crust on a wood board with grass in…

  • Late Summer, One Plate

    Late Summer, One Plate

    The first of September, 2023, still warm enough to eat with the windows open, one plain plate, no company mentioned or pictured. A quiet,…