Backyard 4.12.25 ❤️🔥
Every dish at this dinner had an ingredient from our garden, how cool is that?! Marco’s goal has always been to grow produce for me to use and seeing it happen is really awesome. AND we added a chilled tea at the end of dinner. Marco steeped mint, nettle, alyssum, and lavender from the garden into a refreshing little sip to help with digestion and end our meal.
•Asparagus Soup Sip
•Eggs From Our Girls!
Anchovy and shaved radish from the garden
•Citrus Salad
Golden beets, arugula, pistachios, Humboldt Fog
•Smoked Salmon
Seedy crackers, pickled celery, radish, grilled peas
•Garden Greens
Greens that Marco grew, parm, croutons, and furikake
•Sugar Snap Pasta
@roanmills creste de gallo, bacon, creme fraiche
•Orange Sorbet
This time with brown sugar and vanilla. It’s giving creamsicle vibes
•Basque Cheesecake
Balsamic Roasted Berries
We have one more spring dinner on May 10th !!!!
Presale tickets this Friday at 9am. Link in bio for mailing list
Oops, I did it again…
Cooking Stuff Vol. 2 — SUMMER
If I can’t physically cook for you this summer at least I can help you cook for your friends! 17 recipes from me, 3 drinks from Marco, and 74 photos from @carinaaaclark .
These are the recipes you guys have eaten at Backyard over the last few summers. They highlight summer produce and are EASY. Nobody has time to cook all day, we are hanging outside!
Copies are on sale now. Link in my bio. Shipping starts the first week of July.
*Leslie will have some copies to pick up in Brentwood too.
Fun fact about me: I love magazines. I love the physicality of holding one in your hands, the way the paper feels, dog-earring a page for later, bending the left side around the right to hold it easier while you read, and seeing beautiful photos in print. So this summer I made one!
Cooking Stuff Vol. 1 — Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is not a time to try new things, Thanksgiving is for the classics. This is my love letter to my classic recipes.
94 pages, 13 recipes from me, 5 cocktails from Marco, and 69 photos by @carinareimers .
50 copies are available to purchase on my website. Each magazine is hand numbered.
Link in bio ♥️
Not everyone loves being pregnant and she had no problem admitting it.
On this episode of the Mamatoosa podcast, Licensed Midwife Atoosa Benji sits down with professional chef and mother Marcella Schneiderman, They talk about pregnancy difficulties, empowered birthing, and building community. 🎧 Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Tap the link in bio.
New episodes will be dropping every other Tuesday in 2026.
🎙️ New Episode Just Dropped!
“I Loved Everything About Birth Despite It Being Very Different Than What I Had Planned”
On this episode of the Mamatoosa podcast, Licensed Midwife Atoosa Benji sits down with professional chef and mother Marcella Schneiderman, They talk about pregnancy difficulties, empowered birthing, and building community. 🎧 Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Tap the link in bio.
New episodes will be dropping every other Tuesday in 2026.
I didn’t take any “maternity photos” but I handed Marco a film camera and told him to take photos of me. We ripped through rolls like it was no one’s business. It was hard to appreciate the changes that were happening to my body then. I look back at these photos with a new love, gratitude, and I see all beauty 💫
Marcella plans, Ren laughs.
My leo, lucky number 7, full moon girl. Thanks for taking me on one of the wildest rides of my life.
For as much as I hated pregnancy I give birth 10/10. Nothing went as planned and I still loved every second, sad it’s over, and would do it again. Being a woman rocks. I made that girl!
