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A Dessert Fit for a Long Weekend: Blueberry Poke ‘n Pour Cake
Do you know when your least productive time of the day is? Mine is definitely mid-afternoon, especially when I’m at home (at the office it’s a bit easier to stay focused, thankfully). Saturdays and...
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The Fix for Gluten-Free Macaroni Salad!
You might think that making macaroni salad gluten-free or Low-FODMAP is as simple as swapping out the wheat noodles for one of the many readily available rice, corn, or quinoa-based options out there?...
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My Favorite Risotto Recipe
Risotto has a reputation for being difficult or complicated. That’s far from the truth. Some people complain about how long it takes and that you have to constantly stir it (resulting in all sorts of...
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How to Beat the Heat in Your Summer Kitchen
Growing up, I distinctly remember a few summers where Mom just didn’t cook much at all. Those were the summers where it was regularly 106, 107 degrees outside and we didn’t have air conditioning. We...
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A Blast from Recipe’s Past!
Tassies are basically tarts, but they are so much better than just mini pecan pies. Last weekend I was in the mood to bake just for fun, and I decided to make some Tea Time Tassies from the Junior...
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50s Food is Pretty Tasty!
Or so said Todd, midway through my latest Junior League cookbook week. I’m not exactly inclined to disagree, either! Monday we met up with friends at George and Louie’s for a much-needed catch-up...
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Retro Recipes, part 3
Continuing our impromptu quest through old cookbooks, this (past) week I started with some recipes/menus from Electric Refrigerator Recipes and Menus Specially Prepared for the General Electric...
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Retro Recipes 4: That 70s Chef
Continuing the trek through culinary time, instead of our backwards progression (regression?) I decided to hop back up to the early 70s and use these recipes cards that I remember flipping through as a...
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Month of Menus, Part 1
It’s been a while since I shared a menu on the blog, but it wasn’t because I wasn’t cooking, my hands were just busy with other things. It’s been so long, in fact, that I have enough menus to share to...
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A Month of Menus, Part 2
The reason I wanted to include the iHerb review in this week’s series of posts is that this week (October 3-9) was when I finally got to use some of the goodies I’d bought in our dinners. First up were...
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A Month of Menus, Part 3
So, moving right along, we’re up to mid-month October, starting with the 17th. We started with a simple oven meal of Sesame Salmon with green beans–the beans were roasted on the same sheet pan so they...
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Month of Menus, Part 4
At last we come to the end of our menu catch-up sessions, to the week that encompassed both Halloween and our 3rd wedding anniversary. Between Duncan’s protectiveness vibe and general work exhaustion...
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Impromptu Panzanella and Other Stories
Now that we’ve caught up on the past menus, we can continue on they way we were. Last week was a comfort food sort of week: temperatures continue to drop and the schedule is starting to get heavy with...
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The Most Amazing Fajitas This Side of a Tex-Mex Restaurant
And they were so simple it’s scandalous: peel some shrimp, slice some peppers and onions, toss everything with oil and spices, then roast for 20 minutes. It really was just that simple. The Sheet Pan...
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A Little Apres-Theatre Meal
We were uncommonly social this week between Todd’s company Christmas dinner, TOSAC’s production of It’s a Wonderful Life, the 1940s Radio Play version, and a birthday lunch for a friend. A very busy...
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Spinach-Artichoke Fondue & Other Meals
For New Year’s Eve we kept with tradition and had fondue for two at home in the living room while watching a movie leading up to the ball drop. This year’s movie was Secret Life of Pets and this year’s...
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Hello, Old Friendly Meals
A familiar meal is like a warm blanket or a hug from a good friend. As I was looking through a binder of recipes for a different project, I came across a printout of a Cooking Light recipe I first made...
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Tripping Hard on the Nostalgia (and this week’s menu)
Twice in the last week or so I’ve told a story about somebody that I used to know, only to have them pop back into my life a few days later. Does that ever happen to you?! I used to say that if I had a...
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Cooking the Books
The fact that I’m a bookkeeper makes that phrase rather loaded, but have no fear–nothing nefarious is afoot, merely the past week’s menu. One of the following meals was inspired by a book I was...
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What to Make for Dinner When You’re Absolutely Uninspired
It doesn’t happen often (thankfully!) but every now and then I’ll sit down to make out the next week’s menu only to find that nothing sounds good. It’s not a matter of not being hungry (planning...
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