Pappardelle with chicken and mushroom ragu

Chicken second courses

If you hadn't noticed, I haven't been posting quite as much as I did during the summer. The reason? Light. When it's completely dark by the time we're done cooking dinner, I have much less of a desire to photograph anything. I really just want to sit down and eat. Nothing beats natural light, and that lack of natural light cannot be replicated with the off-hued lights in our kitchen. Just felt like I needed to explain myself, just a little bit. Surprisingly, though, I do have a few back-logged meals that I did manage to photograph. Unfortunately, back-logged means the memory of those meals is also back-logged in my brain. Take this meal. I managed to find the recipe, luckily, but gosh darnit I couldn't tell you what it tasted like. I think it was good, I know I'd remember it if it was either fabulous or horrible, so it must have been somewhere in between. And it was probably a night that we really didn't feel like spending much time cooking, because if we had been in that kind of mood,