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One consequence of catering to picky eaters (i.e., children) is that certain food groups are neglected for years on end. Another consequence of catering to picky eaters is that they grow up and come... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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After thirty-some years of marriage—to the same man, no less—I have a few opinions about the institution that I would like to share on this, the eve of Saint Valentine’s Day. Let’s start with: thirty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cornish hen with beans and kale Okay, so I’m not a winter person. I feel paralyzed by the cold. I have acute brain freeze too right now, which is one of many reasons I haven’t been here for a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Traditional dishes like this pot au feu draw me into the kitchen on a regular basis. Have I become stodgy in my cooking, I ask myself? Or is my gravitation towards these dishes simply a knee jerk... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
When I was growing up, Christmas Eve in our house meant baking sugar cookies. We cut them into baby bunnies, lions, maple leaves, stars, and hearts. We sprinkled them with homemade colored sugar,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
As soon as the first flakes of snow fall (and they did last week) I start thinking about holiday giving. And by that I mean, edible holiday gifts. An Organic Conversation invited me on their radio... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Before the big blowout, I want to clean out my refrigerator to make room for, you know, everything. I also want to eat simply this week. Too much butter consumption, too many sweets, too much of, you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Here it is: the eve of the election. Are you ready for it to be over yet? I live in Political Junkie Land. College Boy, also known as Ace Reporter, has been covering political events since 2007.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I reluctantly say goodbye to tomatoes. But isn’t that what makes seasonal eating brilliant? No sooner do you leave tomatoes, or peaches, or blueberries behind than something arises to take its place?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Keep those flip-flops by the back door, boys and girls. We still have ten days of summer left. When you have a few odds and ends left in the fridge—you know—those green beans you didn’t use, a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The gates to summer shut fast this year at the end of May. My favorite season just didn’t happen. Well, it happened, but I did not partake in it much. A blog is supposed to be a cheery place... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
All may not be right with the world in these modern times, but some things still are. If you want to be reassured of it, just drive down a country back road in midsummer. That’s what I found out... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hail summer. Are you grill-weary yet? I love grilling, especially ever since that job was delegated to Man of the House ages ago when he insisted on replacing our corroded gas grill with a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I used to make this relish at the end of every August. It made sense when I had a garden with more than enough tomatoes, and a few green ones that would never live up to their red, ripe potential as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I come from a long line of sweet-toothed women. My twin great aunts walked up and down the length of Manhattan in matching coats and high heels, window-shopping, visiting the Metropolitan Museum, or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
It was official last week in the Northeast. The dog days of summer have arrived. Strawberries came and went at lightning speed. Too much rain, too much heat. Onward into summer. Then, just as I was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Perfection and pie crust are two words that, when arranged side by side, make me want to tear out my hair. The perfect pie crust! The only pie crust recipe you’ll ever need! No more tears: perfect... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
It’s strawberry season in New England. Fat, juicy strawberries—not those bland, watered-down versions that we’ve been trying to pass off as fruit all winter—are now ours for the taking. They are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Well, yes. Since you asked. I am going crackers. Why? Because I'm learning a lesson this week: If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, accept it. While I chew on a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Note to self: don’t go to Brimfield by yourself again. It was one of those perfect New England days. A slight breeze, puffy clouds floating in deep blue, temperatures hovering in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cooking 101: Vegetable Stock Time passes. Thing change. Like it or not, we grow…. older. And so do our kids. Just a few years ago I was crying in my soup (pun intended) because my one and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Click on any photo to see a slideshow Kumquat. Kumquat. Kumquat. I was eight years old and held a basket of the exotic sounding fruit in my lap. The strange new word spun around in my head. As... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mother Nature, why do you keep messing with us? If you can’t make up your mind what season it is, how are we supposed to know what to eat? Regular readers here may believe that I have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
There’s something unnerving about a summer day in March. The show outside is like a time-lapse movie: buds on fruit trees don’t sweetly emerge in a slow and lady-like fashion, but pop screaming into... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The leisurely family meal around our house on Sunday is more likely to be a breakfast affair than a Sunday supper. Though theoretically I love the idea of Sunday suppers, they haven’t materialized... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Breakfast is my favorite meal. Why? Because today is the first day of the rest of my life. Oh boy. Really, though. What else you got? Yesterday: That ship has sailed. Tomorrow: The future... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By the title, you probably thought I was about launch into a rant. Sorry to disappoint. Today, boys and girls, I just want to justify the name of this blog and to urge you to learn how to poach an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Putting chocolate behind us, (hey! Valentine’s day was just last week, did you forget already?) I’m looking forward to some serious palate cleansing. I’ve had this salad on my mind for weeks, and now... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I tried to find out about the history of this old-fashioned dessert the old-fashioned way: online. (I bet you thought I went to the library, the one with the extensive section on the history of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
To see a gallery of photos from this post, click on the picture I have made a lot of bread in my life. Thousands of loaves. I’m not kidding. Back in the days of yore, when I was relegated to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
So, what delights of the season can you eat in mid-winter? In New England: nothing. Now that we finally have winter—hey, no complaints here about its lazy entrance—with snow and solidly frozen ground... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Winter ushers in predatory cravings: brawny flavors, thick, meaty stews, hunkering-down kind of food. Even the ‘that’s-so-seventies’ favorite, French onion soup, gets the juices flowing. No time for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
This recipe was published in the Boston Globe on 12/28/11 The winter cometh. Finally. Not that I doubted it for a minute. But each day that passed without snow and freezing temperatures made... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I first met buckwheat pancakes through my dear old friend Aunt Jemima. But her buckwheat mix was ditched somewhere along the line. So was her mammy-minstrel-kerchief-apron image when she got her... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I’d like to wax nostalgic and sentimental in this post, but really? There just isn’t time. I learned to make the jellies pictured here from my dear old friend and mentor, Eugene Bernard. (You can... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I guess the title of this post tells you a lot about where I’ve been lately. That is: in search of equilibrium while caffeine and sugar-induced songs run amok incessantly through my head. Somebody... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
0 0 0 This entry was previously posted at the Magazine of Yoga. Confession: I like fruitcake. Not the cake of my childhood, chock full of artificially colored and flavored... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By now, you’ve probably decided upon your Thanksgiving menu (turkey, anyone?) and are Googling like crazy, or if you are old-fashioned, leafing through your favorite cookbooks, in pursuit of that one... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
It took a while, but now I’m in full thrall of the charm of winter vegetables. It started with beautiful carnival squash snagging my attention at the market. But they would be lonely without their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Vegan apple tart with a whole wheat crust This post was originally published at the Magazine of Yoga Out there in Consumerland, aka Target, where one must venture forth for toilet paper,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yes, I do realize it is fall, but I am not listening. I am not ready to embrace squash and pumpkins. Why? I missed summer. I didn’t feel the sand between my toes, or even put on a bathing suit (which... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Standing at the farmers’ market the other day, I wasn’t sure which way to look. Peaches or pumpkins? Corn or delicata squash? Tomatoes or sweet potatoes? The weather last week was telling me to look... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Grandmother’s apple cake was probably the only dessert my mother ever baked. I vaguely recall her cursing over piecrust, but can’t recall the pie. Probably because the cursing, from the lips of a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
