Behind the Scenes at Love & Lemons

At any time questioned how we come up with recipes? Locate out below! I am answering some of your most frequent thoughts in this guiding-the-scenes peek.

Phoebe whisking sauce and Jeanine chopping cilantro at the kitchen counter

Hey, happy Tuesday! We publish a ton of recipes in this article, but it is been a even though considering that I have presented you an update on our approach behind the scenes at Like & Lemons. I assumed I’d choose today’s post to give you a sneak peek into the Adore & Lemons kitchen and respond to some of the issues I frequently get from readers like you!

I began Love & Lemons in 2011 as a area to share seasonal recipes and cooking tales about my husband Jack and me. I did the cooking, and Jack and I would photograph recipes out of our household kitchen, then in Austin, Texas. Flash ahead 11(!) years to now, and Love & Lemons has advanced very a little bit. For a person, we reside in Chicago, and we just lately started functioning with an remarkable photographer and meals stylist who take photos for the blog site and a talented online video team who develop the recipe video clips. I’m also no for a longer period executing all the cooking by myself. Alternatively, I do the job with Like & Lemons’ senior editor and recipe developer, Phoebe, to check and best every recipe.

Jeanine holding skillet with whole roasted cauliflower and Phoebe stirring pot of soup on the stove

Phoebe has been performing with us because 2018, when I was in the center of creating Love & Lemons Each Working day. She started out screening recipes and carrying out prep for our photoshoots and now functions on just about each individual component of Love & Lemons! A handful of exciting points about her:

Phoebe is at first from Wisconsin but now lives in Chicago.
She bought into seasonal cooking right after functioning for a summer season on an natural and organic vegetable farm.
Salads and veggie mains are her most loved recipes to develop.
But she’ll also in no way convert down dessert.

Reader Q&A

How do you occur up with recipes?
We are often considering seasonally, and peak-year produce is the commencing issue for most of our recipes. In the slide, for instance, we know we’ll want to attribute a couple of varieties of squash, as very well as apples, Brussels sprouts, and of training course pumpkin. We also try to give recipes that we know audience will uncover valuable at different times of year, like meal prep recipes in September or facet dishes just before Thanksgiving. (If you ever have a recipe ask for, enable us know!) We get inspiration from cafe meals too. It’s difficult for me to go to Avec, Lula Café, Kite String Cantina, or Left Coast in Chicago without having seeking to experiment with a new dish!

Phoebe and I sit down each individual pair of months and select a established of recipes we want to create. From there, we make a screening schedule and do any vital investigate on a dish’s history or substances. At last, we start out cooking!

Do you examination each and every recipe?
Yes! Phoebe and I test alongside one another most times of the 7 days, and often we also divide and conquer on our have. Some recipes work out just after just a person or two exams, when other individuals need 3 or extra. We designed this environmentally friendly bean casserole perhaps five times the calendar year we formulated it. Neither of us ate environmentally friendly bean casserole at Thanksgiving that yr – we’d had wayyyy too a great deal in the weeks primary up to it! Baking recipes have a tendency to just take lengthier much too. We ate a great deal of cherry pie this summer time and applesauce cake last slide!

What transpires to the leftovers?
We take in them! Phoebe shares some leftovers with her boyfriend Alex, and Jack, Ollie, and I consume the relaxation. As you may well be expecting, the freezer arrives in quite helpful when we’ve had to do a whole lot of recipe tests. Only on very unusual instances do we have a are unsuccessful so epic that it finishes up acquiring tossed (on the lookout at you, blender muffins of 2020).

Phoebe stirring pot on the stove and Jeanine chopping mushrooms at the counter

What is your favored recipe on the web site?
Jeanine: Roasted Cauliflower Steaks with Arugula Pesto
Phoebe: Citrus Salad with Fennel & Avocado

If you could only have 3 spices in your kitchen, which would you decide on?
Jeanine: Smoked paprika, cumin, and coriander
Phoebe: Za’atar, chili powder, and cinnamon

What is your preferred drop veggie?
Jeanine: Sweet Potato
Phoebe: Delicata squash

What about a favourite convenience meals for tumble?
Jeanine: Butternut Squash Soup and this Sweet Potato Salad
Phoebe: Eggplant Parmesan or this creamy squash pasta

Are you composing another cookbook?
Remain tuned!

We hope you glimpse to Love & Lemons for each day veggie inspiration and that you like cooking our recipes in your residence. Many thanks for reading!