A Few Of My Favorite Things
Hello, hello. Lazy cook here. Yes, that means my family just ate pita and chicken salad for dinner. But whatever. Even folks with cooking blogs find making dinner offensive sometimes, right? I’ve been...
View ArticleCookbook Giveaway Time
I’m not gonna lie. I had never heard of salsify and I’ve never cooked — or eaten — a rutabaga. This despite having been a vegetarian since 1979. Then along comes Diane Morgan‘s wonderful...
View ArticleSlow Cooking Love
I know, I know my new love for my slow cooker is as annoying as young love with completely obnoxious PDAs that make older and wiser folks in relationships just want to gag. Someday, they think to...
View ArticleGreat Great (Great) Aunt Eurania’s Snowball Cookies (Redux)
Max and I took to the kitchen this week, embarking on the first weekend morning in the kitchen of many in December. I pulled out my Great Great Aunt Eurania’s address turned recipe book and handed Max...
View ArticleHolding Tight
Like most of America, and in particular anyone who is a parent, I have been gut-wrenched in ways that continue to evolve as more details about Friday’s shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, emerge. I work...
View ArticleHoliday Break
We are pausing here until after the holidays. We’ll all be in California, spending Christmas together for the first time in seven years. We hope you are hunkered down with those you love, too. Thank...
View ArticleWhat’s for Breakfast?
A little toddler puke in my mouth before sun-up, that’s what. Or, that’s what I ate yesterday morning for the second time in my parenting career. And yes, that means this has become an annual...
View ArticleMolasses-Spice Cookies
Tonight, lovely people, I’m trying my hand at leg of lamb. I’ve never cooked anything like it before. My first thought when the butcher handed me the neatly wrapped paper bundle was “I have no business...
View ArticleWhat I’m Cooking Up
Our youngest heads back to college tomorrow and I did my usual cooking for a cast of thousands to cope. I baked brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and buffalo chicken lasagne in my slow cooker because...
View ArticleComing Clean
I just recently completed my annual 3-week cleanse. It’s the whole No plan: No caffeine, No alcohol, No sugar, No wheat, No dairy….and no nightshades like tomatoes, eggplant and potatoes, although by...
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