Leftovers need rebranding. Can we consider leftovers to be more like heightened ingredients? Super-ingredients that give us a headstart toward another meal. Uber-ingredients that are a crunchtimer’s dream. Ultra-ingredients that make miracle meals out of real food in minutes. No, they’re not leftovers at all. They’re mealstarters. Mealstarters that turn … Read More
Do you ever date produce for its looks alone? I’m that shallow too. When I spotted these beauties hanging out in produce, I couldn’t resist temptation. I’ve never been much of a cooked carrot fan, but maybe that’s because cooks of yesteryear, like the lovable lunch ladies or dinner moms, … Read More
From Bon Appetit’s Food Lover’s Cleanse come a few recipes worthy of our permanent file. Loaded with vegetables, including my previously avoided rooter – the parsnip – and zapped to perfection with a kick of complex chili flavor, we should eat white bean chili all winter long.
I’m in a manly house now that my daughter has ventured offto college. Competitions over who can make that shot, replays of Geico commercials, exploding fist bumps, Peter Griffin impressions. What better way to get into all things guy than with some balls?
Everything about these meatballs is surprising.
An author once told me that much to her objection, publishers made her put the word Diet in the title of her book or it would not sell. I assume the same happened to the authors of another book I’ve discovered thanks to my dad, who lemmings after all things … Read More