What’s with the obsession this girl has with radishes? Even though nature’s magenta is reason enough to make friends with this food, it was 1 calorie per radish that required me to make more effort to work it into my diet. Just check the nutritional info over to the left … Read More
Food solves all problems. Why do you think there are 17,973,029,001 food blogs?
My motto: life happens, then you eat, then you die.
So whenever a hardship – rain or cold or colds or cold-sores or cold shoulders – comes our way, only one remedy soothes from the inside out. The gold … Read More
One girl’s trash is another girl’s lunch. Way back when Gourmet magazine could be held our hands, I read about simple salad in one issue that was made with celery leaves and parmesan shavings and then splashed with a dazzling vinaigrette. I thought why you mean those celery parts that … Read More
What do you do with vegetables that are ready for any exit? You know the ones at the back of your refrigerator whose coloring has turned like fall leaves, they’re less crisp,and your kids would only eat them if blindfolded. A few weeks ago I might have tossed them because … Read More
A few of us in my extended family of aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins of every possible ordinal number, have a name for using leftovers and it’s not reinvention a la Food Madonna. At our gatherings, namely Cousins Weekend, we cook, plate, and graze all the live long day. And … Read More