Join Debbie as she raves about whole foods, rants about chemicals and generally celebrates cooking and eating with fresh, local, nutritious foods. And sometimes she might get a little feisty…. If there’s one thing we’re getting from our sorry, sorry CSA farm this year (the weather, they say), it’s chives. And to some extent, that […]
There’s been a whole lot of Julia Child in the zeitgeist lately. With Julie & Julia coming out soon, there have been a ton of articles, clips, and shows about her making their way into TV and print. All the coverage got me thinking about Julia Child and just how truly awesome she is. Let’s […]
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 […]
What a summer! There probably hasn’t been a time in recent memory that we’ve lost so many A-list personalities within a short period of time. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Walter Cronkite — all passing away within a few weeks of each other. As all of the attention was focused on these […]
There’s more to food than recipes. We’ll approach the answers to growing questions, and new ways of taking on tricks of the food trade, and Boil It Down for you. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had some sort of vegetable garden in the yard. From my parents’ house and my father’s veins coursing […]
The last clambake that my family went to, a few years back, our then almost two-year-old ate the lion’s share of my lobster. I’m a loving, giving, generous mom, so I only resented him a little bit for it, and I was secretly tickled that my crazy kid adored the bizarre shellfish. Fast forward three […]
Last week, before my baby decided to snack on dog food, I was having a difficult time coming up with inspiration for my Hold the Meat column. So I took it to our esteemed writers and asked for ideas. Our resident redneck, Jeff, played to my love of zombies and offered this up: The Zombie […]
In preparation for the final episode of the Food Network’s reality show, The Next Food Network Star, I watched a few of the previous shows. I have never watched this show before, and quite honestly I rarely ever watch the Food Network. I do enjoy cooking and sharing my recipes here on CliqueClack Food, but […]
Now, if this recipe doesn’t qualify as a “clean out the refrigerator meal,” I don’t know what does. Sometimes getting home late to a relatively empty fridge has its advantages. I knew I wanted to use up some leftover diced tomatoes, and I also had some broccoli. We got a bit of chard from our […]
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 […]
