Each week, fabulous recipes grace Debbie’s in-box and pop up on her computer screen, and she’s sharing her favorites with you. Are any of you familiar with Cathe Olson? I discovered her long ago, when the nearly-five-year-old was just a wee one, first starting on solid foods. She’s got a wonderful cookbook out called Simply […]
Want to know a little secret? It’s a weird one: Keith doesn’t like cooked carrots, not because of the taste, but because he is convinced that they give him a stomachache. Sure, I could make rollicking fun of him (sometimes I do) but instead I always look for ways to use carrots raw so that […]
Should you decide to take a trip to Las Vegas, you will inevitably encounter three things: extreme heat (in the summer, not the winter), thousands of slot machines, and buffets. While you can avoid the heat (air conditioned hotels) and the slot machines (plenty of places to shop) you can’t avoid the buffets. Especially in […]
I rather enjoy Japanese food of any persuasion, but I gotta say, I had never heard of okonomiyaki before Mothering Magazine published a recipe for it. What is it? A Japanese pancake or pizza. Now that can’t be bad, right? Really, as you read the recipe for Mothering‘s okonomiyaki, you realize it’s probably better than […]
When assigned an appetizer to bring to a clambake, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Quick! It’s not chicken wings, is it? Yeah, I know, but that’s what I brought anyway (if only I had taken a picture because they were so, so beautiful). I’ve had — and made — chicken wings about […]
It seems weird to me to think that not to long ago, there were no such things as peanuts. I don’t mean that they didn’t exist, of course. I just mean that, until 1921 when Teddy Roosevelt made George Washington Carver’s work famous, people in America thought they were a pretty useless weed. And it […]
