Seasonal and Savory: A Delightful Blog Chockfull of Recipes for All Seasons

Saffron and Honey Rolls

I began following Angela Cooks on Facebook a couple of months ago and found myself constantly clicking through her FB links to posts on her Seasonal and Savory blog. I haven’t made a single recipe but I have enjoyed many heartwarming culinary moments through her sharing.

I came to discover that Angela Cooks is actually Angela Buchanan, a professor at CU Boulder where she teaches rhetoric. I didn’t even know that was a course. “It’s a Communications Class,” Angela explains to me in the below Travel Fun interview. And yes, there is a connection with food, this enthusiastic cook’s passion both in and out of the classroom. In the first part of our chat, she talks about a Food & Culture class that she teaches in which students must do a food memoir. Tune in to hear what she says. Aren’t some of our best memories, especially travel-related ones, associated with the memory of certain foods?

As the name of her year-old blog suggests, Angela focuses on developing seasonal recipes as much as possible, many vegetarian- or vegan-based. Right now you can delight in all kinds of pumpkin and winter squash posts including Chestnut and Pumpkin Soup, Beef and Pumpkin Chili and Pumpkin Crêpe Cake with White Chocolate Ganache. Yum.

Pasta with Cajun-Spiced Sweet Potatoes and Creamy Greens

In terms of tips for the holidays and always, here’s some of what Angela suggests:

-Invest in a good spice cabinet.

-Do as much in advance as possible.

-Use puffed pastry for ease, presentation and taste.

Click on the play button below to hear my fifteen-minute interview with Angela.

Angela (on the rt.) at a NYC Good Housekeeping Cooking Event with Her Husband, Harrison, and Sara Moulton

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