Comfort food attack
This weather has totally done it to me. I am so over-the-top into comfort foods, it’s almost scary. I last wrote about flipping through my mom’s Women’s Club cookbooks, and finding the most interesting, fatty-fat-fat-heart-attack-developing recipes in the universe.
This week, I offer you one better: I have modded (to use a gaming phrase from my [...]
Old-school cooking
My pleas for help were answered and, as usual, my mom went way above and beyond the call of duty.
I wanted to make a casserole, one of the many my mom made pretty regularly throughout my childhood. It was creamy (naturally) and had ground beef (of course) and vegetables (well, water chestnuts and onions, whatever) [...]
Super Bowl Sunday: A license for gluttony
Meal planning when you’re hungry is just setting your diet up for failure. I know because suddenly all the entrees I want to make have cheese in them. Or, on them. Or, should. Which is to say, I’ve convinced myself that any meal can be enhanced by cheese. It’s fact.
It doesn’t help that all the [...]
Kale: My latest love affair
I’d spent most of my adult life avoiding it. It was curly and green and I suspected it was bitter. It looked like a weed, for crying out loud!
And then I read the article that would change my life.
Little baby pumpkin eater
I’m having a love affair with the pumpkin. I don’t know why I ever felt the squash was too big or unwieldy to bake—I guess I just always trusted Libby to take care of any prep issues I might have had.
I recently had a bit of s shock. You know those tiny little pumpkins for [...]
