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. I am a huge fan of the side dish. It doesn’t take much to give a side dish a […]
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…. Really, what could be fresher than a potato salad made up almost entirely of ingredients from this week’s CSA farm harvest? Yes, it’s true: with […]
After a cold and rainy couple of months up here in the Northeast summer is finally in full swing. Ever since the weather has gotten hot and humid I’ve been craving some clam chowder. It’s nothing that I’ve tried to make before, but I was intrigued. I’ve had many a delicious chowder in my day, […]
While there are many downsides to growing up as a vegetarian — the inane questions, the feelings of exclusion — there are definitely some up-sides. My colon probably isn’t going to fall out of my body, for instance. Also, I never really had to deal with school lunch. Sure, I would partake in “cheese pizza […]
I’ve never claimed to be an expert cook. In fact, I’ve been pretty straightforward about how I merely muddle along in the kitchen. So while I’m clearly not the next Julia Child, I can generally get by– with one exception. I cannot, for the life of me, make a decent pancake. It doesn’t matter if […]
One of my favorite dishes is fried potatoes. They can be the main course or a side dish to something else. They can be made for any meal and are always tasty and filling. You can dress them up or leave them plain depending on how you are using them. Photo Credit: Jeff Love
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 […]
