Author Archives: Kristen Hinman
A City Girl Cooks Country (Beef Pot Pie)
Sometimes Tim speaks of stealing away to a farm, which we would actually farm, and I think, ooh, yes, great idea! Let’s trade our high-stress, low-paying jobs for a high-stress, even lower-paying gig that would never allow us to sleep … Continue reading
A City Girl Cooks Country (Chicken Liver Mousse)
Tim and I spent a good chunk of December at the Hinman homestead, first for a family funeral and then for Christmas. For me, it was both a time to mourn and a time to celebrate, a time to reflect … Continue reading
A City Girl Cooks Country (Squash)
What do you cook when you need to quiet a racing mind? It was our first Saturday at the market in a couple weeks owing to travel and family visits, and I had my answer as soon as I saw … Continue reading
A City Girl Cooks Country (Brisket)
Among the rules that govern the headquarters of H’Embree International, as my husband likes to call our homestead, is one very important tenet of running: I finish first. I get it that you can only give a dude two honey-do’s at … Continue reading
Swine Dining: A City Girl Cooks Country (Mussels)
How often does your significant other teach you something in the kitchen? Tim typically absconds to the opposite end of our kitchen/dining/living room on weeknights, lest he be squired to peel or dice. Weekends, he’s more easily greased with a … Continue reading
Swine Dining: A City Girl Cooks Country (Eggs on Pizza)
Tim and I had to leave our Texas-style smoker back in St. Louis for lack of a decent patio here in the capital, so while everyone else has been firing up the grill this summer, we’ve been turning on the … Continue reading
Swine Dining: A City Girl Cooks Country (Tomatoes for Dessert)
Tomatoes for dessert… I could hear Tim vetoing the idea the minute I committed. Which left only one choice: Keep it a secret. Tim likes his tomatoes served at more temperate states, like, frigid, and he loves to smack them … Continue reading
Swine Dining: A City Girl Cooks Country (Cucumbers)
Sometimes I wish Tim had a rewind button. Something I could push after he blurts something so hilarious that we’re both falling off our stools, or to hit when something incendiary escapes without any editing. Something to replay the lines … Continue reading
Swine Dining: A City Girl Cooks Country (Watermelon)
Tim and I tend to approach special occasions like everything else in our lives: on deadline. Which helps to explain why, for the past week or so, every time it occurred to me that our first wedding anniversary was looming, … Continue reading
Swine Dining: A City Girl Cooks Country (Beet Greens)
This is the second installment of a new column by Kristen Hinman, Swine Dining: A City Girl Cooks Country. Here are two things I’ll forever remember about Tim’s homecoming from Iraq a couple years ago: the way he burrowed his … Continue reading
From the Editor
Swine Dining
Cooking from the Carpool Lane