SUMMER BAKING
Recipes
Nourishing recipes for everyday meals and special occasions
Heirloom Tomato Tarts
The Beauty of Simple French Cooking Something I've noticed whenever I'm in France is a certain ease in the day-to-day food. There is a simplicity to the way ingredients are combined that results in beautiful dishes where you taste the flavor of each element. It feels...
Strawberry Rhubarb Spoon Cake
Discovering Rhubarb Growing up in Southern California, our family never cooked with rhubarb — it needs a cold winter to thrive, and we simply never encountered it. I was introduced to it as a young adult after moving to the East Coast, where it seemed to appear...
French Green Lentil Salad
We wound our way through the Portuguese and Spanish countryside, green and lush after weeks of sometimes torrential rain. The last time we passed through this part of Europe, in the heat of August, it was dry as could be. This felt like a refreshing way to begin the...
Fresh Strawberry Cobbler with Lemon Biscuits
This fresh strawberry cobbler with a soft lemon biscuit topping is a simple, nostalgic summer dessert inspired by childhood days spent picking strawberries. The filling bakes into something thick and jammy, while the biscuits rise golden and tender with a hint of...
Orange Blackberry Scones with Rosemary
Signature Recipe by Eva MarieFlaky orange blackberry scones with rosemary are bright, rustic, and gently fragrant, with tender layers and pockets of jammy fruit. These bakery-style scones combine fresh citrus zest, juicy blackberries, and a hint of rosemary for a...
Smoked Carrots, Herbed Ricotta and Harissa
Rediscovering the Humble Carrot I’ve been a little obsessed with carrots lately. With so many varieties and colors to choose from these days, I think I’m rediscovering just how versatile and delicious they can be. This recipe came together as a way to use up a bunch...
Welcome to A Nourished Life
I’m Eva, a cook, writer, and recipe developer living between places and seasons. Through recipes, reflections, and stories from the table, I explore food, belonging, and the ways we create home wherever life takes us.
To me, a nourished life isn’t tied to one place. It’s found in meals shared slowly, in family gathered around a table, in beautiful places that stay with us, and in the rituals that make life feel meaningful.
Reflections
Chasing “There”
At sixty-five, I’m still wondering when I will arrive at there, that elusive place of contentment where everything finally settles into place, where life feels complete. At times it has seemed close—just over the next hill, a few decisions away, a different chapter, a...
Polar Nights and Northern Lights of Tromsø
Since I was a child listening to my mother’s stories about the boats that would weave their way through the fjords to bring letters and necessary goods to little towns and villages up north where Santa lived, I have wanted to visit northern Norway. This Christmas, I did.
China leaving
The vacuum rolled across the wood floor with ease, picking up the last remnants of China. Little black balls of fur that I so often cursed, I now looked upon with gut-ripping love. As each tuft was sucked into the bag of dust and dead bugs, I began to cry with more...
Annie
She was from a different era, when people were polite and grounded. She had three children, and I was married to one of them. Having her as my mother-in-law was a gift. Annie (Anna Shillo), was a no nonsense woman who was practical, warm, deeply loving and she was...
Singing in the Rain
We were running down the middle of the street, me with my soaking wet dress hiked up above my knees with one hand and my father, holding onto my dog, China’s leash, water splashing up his legs each time his foot hit the hot, wet asphalt. By the time we saw my husband,...
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