Do you dread grocery shopping and/or meal planning? Even if you don’t actively haaaate it, everyone hits a rut sometimes, needs a break, or gets overwhelmed with other priorities. There are a whole host of services that aim to make getting a healthy home-cooked dinner on the table a whole lot easier. I recently...
Bright and Fresh Flatbread Salad
This is soooo tasty, and was the first meal of my “Foodie Magazine Diet” challenge! The herbs, feta and Peppadew peppers (my FAVORITES) give this salad an amazing, bright flavor, while the crunch of the pita bread and snap peas give it textural interest. My family gobbled this one up! (Including my toddler, though she...
This Month’s Greatest Hits
It’s been a month of great eating, I must say. When I look back on a month of stellar dinners, I smile. And then I think of you, Dear Reader. 🙂 What I SHOULD be doing though is taking photos when I have a month of good dinners – what kind of a food...
Recipe: Tandoori-Style Chicken Sandwich
I just adore Indian food, but I’ve never had the courage to try to cook it at home—UNTIL NOW! I was inspired by a recipe for tandoori-style chicken in my Everyday Food magazine recently because it looked awfully easy, not to mention cheap. The recipe calls for a whole chicken, which (since I try...
$1,000 Egg Baskets: Today’s Kitchen Recipe
Today’s Kitchen is a series of posts documenting my adventures cooking through the recipes from my grandmother’s 1950’s era cooking show of the same name. These are genuine retro recipes, updated (as needed) for a modern table. Have you noticed how many meals are being made in muffin tins these days? You need...
Today’s Kitchen: Omelette Puffs
We really didn’t know what to expect with this recipe. I mean, the ingredients are innocuous enough, but with a name like “omelette puff…” Turns out, these are pretty tasty, if a little unusual. They have a nice, fluffy, slightly spongey texture. The other nice thing is that they lend themselves almost infinitely to different toppings; pretty much...