Gourmet cooking doesn’t have to entail hours of cooking with a list of ingredients longer than your normal grocery list. Create meals bursting with complex flavors that will please every food snob in your life, easily. And less is definitely what I had. No one had been to the grocery store since we got back […]
My wife loves buttercream frosting. By love, I mean that she would divorce me for someone who made or was made of buttercream frosting. So, when it came to whipping up some cupcakes for my daughter’s birthday party it was either purchasing it from a can or making some on my own. I decided to […]
Gourmet cooking doesn’t have to entail hours of cooking with a list of ingredients longer than your normal grocery list. Create meals bursting with complex flavors that will please every food snob in your life, easily. All my years of getting multitudes of chard from the CSA farm, I’ve experimented with at least 70,000 ways […]
Should you decide to take a trip to Las Vegas, you will inevitably encounter three things: extreme heat (in the summer, not the winter), thousands of slot machines, and buffets. While you can avoid the heat (air conditioned hotels) and the slot machines (plenty of places to shop) you can’t avoid the buffets. Especially in […]
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…. I’ve complained mentioned again and again that we aren’t reaping a ton of produce from our CSA farm this year. There are a few things […]
You almost need nothing but a big, juicy slice of watermelon, dripping down your chin as you slurp it down, on this list. My only regret is that seedless watermelon has rendered the seed-spitting contests of my youth obsolete. Sometimes, though, I just feel the need to get creative. Yeah, I know you’ve figured that […]
I make pesto a lot, especially in the summer months when fresh basil abounds. I’ve come across a “recipe” that works well for me, which really consists of dumping handfuls of ingredients into my food processor, no measuring involved. Many years ago, I do believe this was inspired by a Cooking Light recipe, which included […]
