Not a Sad Desk Sandwich: Braised Kale, Mozzarella & Red Onion Jam

How often do you eat lunch at your desk? Whether you’re in a corporate environment, or working from home, researchers suggest getting away from your desk for even a short break can dramatically impact creative thinking. It’s not even so much about the food, it’s about a change of scenery. I have to admit, until recently, I’ve…

March 23, 20160Comments

Cooking Main Course Recipes

Not A Sad Desk Lunch: Cauliflower with Mint-Walnut Pesto Sandwich

Cauliflower is a little eye-rolly these days. The hype is nearly as bad as it has been for kale. Over the last few years, food blogs have used it for everything from “alfredo” sauce to fried rice. Now, Trader Joe's sells riced cauliflower in both its frozen and produce sections. But let’s not blame the…

March 16, 20160Comments

Baking Fruit Recipes

New Edition-Tradition: Not Cross Bun Bread

Tradition is just something you do more than once, said some cynical person sometime somewhere. Well, if that's the case, this Not Cross Bun loaf is now tradition. I've made it three times, and damn if it isn't simpler than shaping individual hot cross buns. And without a direct connection to Good Friday, you can have…

March 14, 20160Comments

Main Course Recipes

How to Make a Taco Bell Bean Burrito Knockoff

Every time I look at the hashtag #traderjoes on Instagram, people are posting their healthy eating pics – riced cauliflower, beet juice, yogurt, salads. It’s true, Trader Joe’s is great for grabbing some of those healthy staples at a reasonable price. Of course, Trader Joe’s also sells Peppermint Joe-Joe’s and a frozen mac and cheese…

March 11, 20160Comments

Cooking Recipes

MADE: Serious Eats’ Kung Pao Chicken

Good Chinese takeout is one of those things you take for granted if you live in a big city. Sweet and sour pork, almond chicken and beef and broccoli are just a phone call away. Move out to the 'burbs and you may only have one or two choices, including Panda Express. Luckily, there's Serious…

March 10, 20160Comments

Book Reviews

Fiction for the Food Obsessed: Nuts by Alice Clayton

Finally, a rom-com that does food right! Usually food is an accidental backdrop in a story. Hero and heroine meet cute at a farmers market, or there's a front-of-the-house hookup between host and bartender in a restaurant, but the food is usually window dressing rather than a focus. In the last couple of months, I've read two…

March 4, 20160Comments

Cooking Recipes

I’m About to Change Your Mind on Brussels Sprouts

It's November. It's time for pumpkin spice every thing, for trotting out the fresh green bean casserole recipe and talking how it's so much better than the old canned thing your grandma served, and for singing the praises of Brussels sprouts. Ugh, Brussels sprouts? You either love 'em or hate 'em. Until recently, I thought I…

November 17, 20151Comment

Cooking Recipes Salads

Hatch Chile Time: Hatch Chile Chicken Salad

I worked in a bagel shop in college and one of the things I loved most was the chicken salad. Pizza bagels were right up there. But, I know, what? Chicken salad was far ---- and i mean faaaaaaaaar ---- from the most ordered item on the menu. I mean, I don't really order tuna…

August 29, 20150Comments

Baking Cooking Pizza Recipes

The Foundations of Good Pizza

A friend of mine worked in a department store, typically in women’s clothing, and that's how I learned the polite way to refer to women’s undergarments was not lingerie, not underwear, not panties, but foundations. Because let’s face it, if you’ve got ill-fitting undergarments on, regardless of your body type or what you look like naked,…

July 17, 20150Comments

Baking Main Course Pizza Recipes

FridayNightSlice: The Costco Combo Pizza

Sometimes there's no big story. Sometimes it's just what you made for dinner. That sometime is now. Print Recipe FridayNightSlice: The Costco Combo Serves: 10 Cooking Time: 19 minutes Ingredients 1 ball of dough from Kenji's NY Style pizza dough 1/3 c. crushed tomatoes 1/2 t. dried oregano olive oil to drizzle…

July 10, 20150Comments

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Not a Sad Desk Sandwich: Braised Kale, Mozzarella & Red Onion Jam

Not A Sad Desk Lunch: Cauliflower with Mint-Walnut Pesto Sandwich

New Edition-Tradition: Not Cross Bun Bread

How to Make a Taco Bell Bean Burrito Knockoff

MADE: Serious Eats’ Kung Pao Chicken

Fiction for the Food Obsessed: Nuts by Alice Clayton

I’m About to Change Your Mind on Brussels Sprouts

Hatch Chile Time: Hatch Chile Chicken Salad

The Foundations of Good Pizza

FridayNightSlice: The Costco Combo Pizza

Review: The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren

Book Review: Wisdom Corner by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Book Review: Just for the Season by Rachel Griffiths