Mar 19, 2013
A goal for this year was to pull a different cookbook down from the shelf each month and actually cook out of it versus just drooling over all the beautiful photography. So far I have tackled a VERY complicated, but delicious, soup recipe from Thomas Keller’s Ad... 
Feb 21, 2013
Let’s start out by saying I really wanted to love this cookbook. I really did. Too bad it didn’t turn out that way. I made it my goal to pull down a cookbook off the shelf each month, dust it off, and make something out of it. For the first month, full of... 
Jan 10, 2013
Let’s face it – stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason, created by characteristics or behavioral patterns that occur at least enough of the time for it to define that group of people. And while the word “stereotype” might carry a bit of a negative... 
Nov 1, 2012
I have to admit, it wasn’t that long ago that I would have scrunched up my nose at the suggestion of eating kale. Quinoa sounds foreign and exotic and maybe hoping to absorb some of those characteristics, I embraced that no problem, but kale, poor kale, fell... 
Jul 18, 2012
Our community garden is kickin’ into high gear and the first picking of tri-colored beans (it’s just too bad that the purple ones turn green when cooked) was a bountiful one! Since the other partners in the garden were coming to dinner, I laid claim to the... 
Jun 6, 2012
I’ve had an on again, off again relationship with asparagus. When I was a toddler, I am told that I couldn’t jam it in fast enough. Had to have it in both hands to keep the incoming stream steady. Then as my mom tells it, one day I actually took a breath... 