I love tartare sauce. Actually, half the reason I get fish & chips is for the tartare sauce. But I’ve grown sick of the disgusting green stuff that you get in jars. Luckily, one of the things I learned to make in New Zealand was tartare sauce from scratch, The basics, I was told, is…
Of all the foods I integrated into my regular diet in New Zealand, it wasn’t the kiwifruit that featured the most prominently, but the avocado. I hadn’t liked the fruit before – the Chinese call the avocado “butter fruit”, for its texture, and I found it slimy and tasteless and full of fat. Well, it’s…
I like to think of myself as fairly adventurous in both cooking and eating. With the exception of making yeast breads (too many failures to count), I’m willing to try making just about anything. And vegetables? I’ve yet to meet one that I don’t like, if not love. All that aside, somehow, the mighty fennel…
As some of you may remember from the past, when Lent comes around I try to give up something– not just chocolate or sugar or caffeine (though I’ve done all of those things in the past), but something that may actually have an impact other than making me cranky from chocolate withdrawal. A couple of…
My go-to quick meal of late has been Morning Star Garden Veggie Burgers. I had never really liked veggie burgers, but when there wasn’t anything else in the kitchen during a trip home, I thought I could choke it down with enough cheese and ketchup. To my surprise, I actually really enjoyed it. But they’re…
I’ll admit it, I’ve had a long love affair with kitchen gadgets. Let me set eyes on an infomercial for the latest “must have” gadget, and, well, I must have it! Fortunately, procrastination, laziness, and my bank account have stopped me from calling in and buying the gadgets I see on TV. But let a…
When I was in high school, I thought it was cool not to have breakfast, unless it was just coffee. Don’t ask me why. Sounds asinine now. But teens – what can you do? *shakes head very sorrowfully* Anyway, I grew up, and learned the value of a good breakfast. When I started teaching I…
Over the years, I’ve developed confidence in my ability to cook just about anything except bread. I regularly search for different recipes online, but also don’t hesitate to come up with my own creations. My first kitchen experiment occurred when I was about 10 years old, and was trying to earn some kind of Girl…
I recently came across an interesting article by Mark Bittman that appeared in the New York Times back in December. It advocates eating “real food,” rather than convenience or restaurant food. According to Bittman, everyone should be able to do three things: a chopped salad, a stir-fry, and a basic lentils and rice recipe. Bittman…
My roommate and I will be hosting a small baby shower for an expecting friend while she’s in town. Now, the last baby shower I remember attending was for my mom, when she was pregnant with my brother. I was four at the time, and it was almost eighteen years ago. My main precedent in…
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