You know it’s happened to you: last minute dinner guests, no food in the house, what can you serve? Your pantry is always stocked with a jar of pasta sauce and this-and-that you can use to throw together a good meal — really! In fact, I’ll bet you can make three fit-for-company meals with what […]
The best part about family recipes that have been passed down may not always be the actual recipe. Sometimes, it is the memory the recipe invokes. Growing up, I remember going to my Nana’s house frequently for dinner, sometimes with just my family and sometimes with my aunts, uncles and cousins. I’ve got to say, […]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you really can shove just about anything inside a sheet of nori and have it taste good. On thing I’ll admit to never having tried though, is hamburger maki. Yes, you read that right: I’ve found a recipe for a hamburger sushi roll. Before you go […]
Keith and I have this “thing” we do when we go out to eat. We’ll look at the menu, but until we hear the specials from our server, we don’t make a decision about what we’ll be ordering. Here’s why: we can always order off the menu, right? But a special’s a special, and it’s […]
One of our favorite meals is lamb chops, usually with a side of dirty quinoa (you know, quinoa with “stuff” in it) on a bed of greens or baby spinach or something to that effect. It is easy enough to prepare mid-week, yet always seems to feel like a special meal. However, it is one […]
I’m a frequent shopper at BookCloseouts.com. They’ve always got a terrific selection of books for great prices. We’ve got shelves of kids’ books for our son, thanks to BookCloseouts.com. And now, for you cookbook junkies, they’ve got the sale to beat all sales. From now until Wednesday, February 18, you get a free cookbook for […]
There’s almost nothing you can do to make a slice of pizza unappealing for me. Even if it is a wheat crust slathered with cheap mozzarella cheese, it still appeals. I wouldn’t eat it, but boy, I’d smell it and drool. Man, I passed by a Subway today and nearly made a pizza pit stop…. […]
