I launched Little Fierce Kitchen a few months ago in the midst of the global pandemic. I was home more and cooking more. I had been dreaming about this site for many months. I had a whole mess of content planned, so that the launch itself would be followed up with consistent weeks of articles and recipes

We can’t predict when grief will come knocking though. In my case, it came in a few different ways all at the same moment.

Yet, as so often happens in our community, neighbors and friends showed up in abundance with cards and meals and sweet breads and cookies. We were well fed for more than a week, and our sweet tooths tended for weeks longer than that. There is something so incredibly comforting about being brought a meal in the midst of grieving. Food is always a comfort, I find, but it’s always nice to also have the need to make decisions removed for a few days. You just eat what was dropped off on your doorstep that day. Enchiladas and lasagna and shepherd’s pie all on different nights, with enough for leftovers for lunch the next day. It was such a blessing, and a kindness I hope to pay forward to these beloved friends when they need some love and support and tacos.

The grief is still present, and in moments it sneaks up on me like a mosquito on these warm summer nights while eating dinner on the deck, beauty shifting to a loud buzzing and irritation and pain without any warning. But I’m back to writing anyway, trying to redirect some of this emotion into projects, both around my home and with this little community of home cooks I hope to hatch.

This is a website for food, for cooking, for the bits of life that pass through a kitchen. I’m not going to spend more time here writing about these last few months of my life. That’s for another space.

More content will be coming soon here, on Little Fierce Kitchen, and will certainly be coming out with much more consistency. I’ve been cooking a bunch these past few weeks and I will be publishing newly developed recipes along with other fun, planned content with a great deal more consistency.

I hope these past months have been filled with happy spring and summer days for you. Here’s to more joy ahead for all of us.