It’s been a good week. In fact, an amazing week. Of eats. Good eats, that is! Amazing enough to make me think I might be a kitchen manic-depressive. I’d been in a months-long slump and then WHAM! suddenly I was on fire and motivated (obsessed?) again. In the space of one week I cooked...
Eating for Health and Pleasure: The Pleasure Diet
I have a big problem whenever I’m faced with the idea of going on a “diet:” I’m just not willing to give up entire food groups. For a long time, I thought this was a flaw in my personality. I thought that I just didn’t have the willpower to want to give up brownies, or...
Summertime Slow Cooker
I just ADORE this “tool” from Mark Bittman at the New York Times which offers up dozens of interchangeable ideas for what to put in your crock pot during the summer. A lot of us think of crock pots as wintertime tools—for stews and braised meats, primarily. But they can work wonders when you don’t...