I’ve always known that creating something wonderful to eat is a task that involves all of your senses. You hear onions sizzle when they hit a hot pan, watch the slivers turn golden brown, yelp out an “Oh shit!” as you smell them burning, forgotten in the pan while you continued to chop away. For my friend Kavitha however, using [...]
“I like cheese” is my daughter’s current mantra. She peppers conversation with the phrase, and occasionally sets the words to music. We don’t live in Wisconsin. She hasn’t been indoctrinated by the dairy industry. She just really, really likes cheese. I even found it doodled in the margins of her schoolwork, although what she actually wrote was, “I like chees!!” I [...]
I often find that some of the real work horses of the kitchen are the ones prone to bad reputations. One prime example: cabbage. Despite its versatility and health benefits, it also happens to be the main ingredient of a horrible crash diet, an international symbol of poverty, known to cause gas, and can conjure up memories of lingering foul [...]
From the first meal I ever cooked to today, there is one important lesson I have learned in the kitchen: you must be patient. From overcooking eggs to under-roasting chicken, it is a lesson I have learned over and over again. Whenever I start to get antsy with a recipe, I occasionally hear the sweet crooning of Axel Rose in [...]
We pack A LOT into our little VW Golf! And, just when we think we couldn’t possibly move another inch in the space between two car seats, among all the grocery bags, diaper bag, laptop bag, toys, etc., that’s when my daughter will inevitably ask, “Can I have a snack?” This then prompts my husband to go on a scavenger [...]
I love having food friends. Friends that get just as excited about food as I do, chat about restaurant openings like they are movie premiers, and happily eat their way through the city with me. Now, it might be luck, but I have quite a few of these friends, and my friend Carlos happens to be one of them. In [...]
Forget about Valentine’s Day — from now on, February should be looked forward to most because it also happens to be National Grapefruit Month! I know; it’s mostly considered a diet food because it has been shown to be a good source of vitamin C and, when combined with certain things, can allegedly kick-start weight loss. And I’ll admit it, [...]
If you listen closely you can hear the sound of my daughter crying over the Dr. Praeger’s Broccoli Littles that we just tried to feed her for dinner. While I still can’t get my daughter to expand beyond one or two mainstay vegetables, for the rest of us, there’s roasting vegetables. My first foray into vegetable roasting came when I discovered how [...]
You know it and I know it, February 14 is comin’ around the corner and fast. Like most holidays, it highlights a feeling we should be expressing all year round, not only on this one special day. But much like Thanksgiving is the time for thanks and Christmas is the time for giving, Valentine’s Day is the time for love. [...]
I recently had an opportunity to be a guest at a dinner party with a group of nine amazing women. Now all retired, the women have been meeting once a month, nine or 10 months out of the year for the past 35 years to eat dinner together. I have to admit, I was a little in awe of these [...]
