Homemade

  • A Boxborough Standby

    A Boxborough Standby

    A takeout container and a cup of ranch, six days after the grocery-run post above — whether this is a callback to that raw…

  • Before They Were Wings: The Grocery Run

    Before They Were Wings: The Grocery Run

    Every home-cooked batch starts somewhere, and this entry captures that somewhere: a plain package of raw chicken wings, straight off the store shelf, price…

  • The Pepper Rub Experiment

    The Pepper Rub Experiment

    August 2022, and this batch got a heavier hand with the black pepper than usual — you can see the coarse crack all over…

  • Backyard Pizza, Boxborough Edition

    Backyard Pizza, Boxborough Edition

    June 2022, Boxborough, Massachusetts, and this pizza made it all the way outside — photographed on a wood peel with grass visible in the…

  • A February Boxborough Batch

    A February Boxborough Batch

    A blue plate against a dark kitchen backdrop, February 2022 — deep-winter wing energy, the kind of meal that exists specifically because it’s cold…

  • Wayland Pizza, a One-Off Location

    Wayland Pizza, a One-Off Location

    May 2021, and this one’s tagged to Wayland, Massachusetts — a town that doesn’t show up anywhere else in this archive, wings or pizza.…

  • Sudbury Era Begins: White Pizza, Overhead Shot

    Sudbury Era Begins: White Pizza, Overhead Shot

    May 2020 — new house, new location tag (Sudbury, Massachusetts, which shows up all over this blog’s wing archive too), and a return to…

  • March 2020 Wings: We All Coped Differently

    March 2020 Wings: We All Coped Differently

    Late March 2020. You know exactly what was happening in the world, and apparently my household’s response was to keep making wings, this batch…

  • Two Pizzas, Bright Light, No Date to Be Honest About

    Two Pizzas, Bright Light, No Date to Be Honest About

    This one has no timestamp in its file data at all, so in the interest of honesty: I don’t know exactly when this was…

  • The Retrospective Collage

    The Retrospective Collage

    Not a single pizza night but a multi-panel collage — five different pizzas from five different moments, assembled together at some point rather than…