Fork in the Road Kitchen: From Home

Fork in the Road Kitchen: From Home Waterloo. Population 156. No grocery store. Pull up a chair for recipes, tips, and kitchen tricks. Welcome to my table.

Also no red light. 😏

American classics and global flavors share the same table here - there's no telling what you'll see next.

09/04/2026

Self-care looks like this to me.

A quiet day. A quiet mind.

Nothing but time, rain, and sourdough. 🍞

I've never had much luck with same-day sourdough, but I finally found the overnight loaf of my dreams.

Every sourdough loaf I've baked on this page has come from the same starter, Sour-line Dion.

This batch?

Beauty and the Yeast. ❤️

Recipe is pinned in the comments 🫶





09/03/2026

Tonight's salad was built around some of the end-of-season gifts from the garden.🫑🥒🍅

This purple bell pepper was one of my favorite things we grew this year. It looks almost black on the outside and bright green on the inside. Beautiful.

Topped with grilled lemon herb chicken and a champagne vinaigrette, it turned into one of those simple suppers that reminds me why we plant a garden every year.





09/02/2026

Warm spices. The delicious scent of curry simmering on the stove. Steamy rice and cool yogurt sauce.

A dinner that makes you relax into your chair and sit a little longer.





09/02/2026

Warm spices.
The delicious scent of curry simmering on the stove.
Steamy rice and cool yogurt sauce.

A dinner that makes you relax into your chair and sit a little longer.





09/01/2026

Monday.

A "no planned meal and no pants" kind of day.

Good thing the pantry and freezer were willing to cooperate.

09/01/2026

I hadn't made a menu.

I hadn't been to the grocery store.

I wasn't putting on pants.

So I dug through the kitchen.

Potatoes. Peppers. Onions.

The freezer yielded homemade Polish sausage and a bag of tomato paste (thank you, Past Michelle, for saving leftover everything).

This skillet happened.

After months of watering, fertilizing, staking, pruning, fighting bugs, dodging heat waves, and hauling in bowls of toma...
08/31/2026

After months of watering, fertilizing, staking, pruning, fighting bugs, dodging heat waves, and hauling in bowls of tomatoes...

Today's harvest officially brought the 2026 tomato season to a close.

One tomato.

Not one bowl. Not one basket.

One tiny tomato roughly the size of a gumball.

I'd like to thank this little overachiever for refusing to give up when every other tomato plant had already submitted its resignation.

A for effort, little buddy.
🍅❤️

08/31/2026

Audrey is one cucumber plant.

ONE.

She's 12 feet long, 14 feet wide, and we're absolutely knee-deep in cucumbers.

After a couple days on the counter, they start getting soft. Mine were getting soft in the fridge after just 4 days, so I had to figure out a better way to store them.

Here's what's worked for me.

08/30/2026

Good morning, friends! ❤️

Fork In The Road Kitchen is taking the day off today.

My granddaughter turns 4, and we're celebrating her big day with family, cake, and lots of birthday fun. 🎂

I'll be back tomorrow with more kitchen content. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

🍴 FITRK Confessional #1The Great P**p Cupcake Incident of 2022My daughter requested p**p cupcakes for her baby shower.T...
08/29/2026

🍴 FITRK Confessional #1

The Great P**p Cupcake Incident of 2022

My daughter requested p**p cupcakes for her baby shower.

The sign was supposed to say:
"S**t Just Got Real."

I made homemade chocolate frosting and started piping. It wasn't going my way and Fred took over.

The very first cupcake came out looking.....alarmingly realistic.

Fred and I stared at it.

*blink blink*

Then we laughed so hard we couldn't breathe.

Every air pocket in the frosting escaped with a tiny fart noise as it came through the piping bag, making the entire process significantly less mature than it should have been.

By the end, we had a tray full of cupcakes that looked like they had been carefully relocated from the wild and the realization that the sign should have read:

S**t Just Got Realistic.

I have no regrets.

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