I have had a subscription to Bon Appetit for a year (after they shuttered Gourmet) and read it every month… but none of the recipes ever looked very good to me. So imagine my surprise when I was leafing through the January issue and I saw a COUPLE of recipes that looked good. This is […]
I’m not really that big on french fries. I will eat them, of course, I just don’t really love them. But sweet potato fries? Those I find hard to resist. So I was excited to try the homemade kind — and even more excited when I realized how fast and easy it is. Plus, they […]
Do you ever have recipes that you keep looking at, maybe even buying the ingredients for, but never making? This was one of those recipes for me. It is a slight variation on something form the Gourmet cookbook, and I’ve been looking at it for at least two years now. Now that I’ve finally made […]
***So remember how I told you Isabel knows things, but I make them up? Apparently my darling husband accidentally bought collards instead of kale. Oops. These chips were still good, though. I would suggest actually using kale if you make them, though.*** One of my many food weaknesses is tortilla chips. Specifically: tortilla chips served […]
While I am just making things up as I go along, my friend Isabel is a registered holistic nutritionist and graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health & Culinary Arts — so she actually knows what she’s talking about. She has a lot of great, nutritious recipes on her website, ForkBytes, and I had […]
You should know that I generally dislike soup. Of course I eat chicken noodle when I’m sick (Chick-fil-A’s is great) and recently had some amazing roasted tomato in Michigan. But I don’t like things that are watery/brothy. So the first time I attempted to make this recipe, I was concerned about the amount of water […]
Merry Christmas! I hope Santa brought you everything you asked for… but since he may have eaten all your cookies, I’ve got your back. And these are so good that they will make you smile even if you only got coal in your stocking. The key to the amazingness of these meringue cookies is crushed […]
These cookies could really be made at any time of year, but they definitely say Christmas to me — whether you call them Mexican wedding cookies, Russian tea cakes or something else. I have never had any trouble with these before, but the first recipe I tried this year was a little problematic. So as […]
It’s almost Christmas! Today I was going to give you cookies AND photos of 10 lords-(aka hot guys)-a-leaping, but it is surprisingly difficult to find photos of hot guys jumping. Instead, here is Knowshon Moreno leaping over a dude, and nine good-looking-guys-not-leaping: Matt Damon, Tom Brady (pre-Bieber hair) and Mark Sanchez, James Blake, Cristian de […]
Peppermint patties may be my favorite chocolate candy. So I had been wanting to make these homemade ones since I saw them in Gourmet magazine in 2007. And I finally had the chance! These are definitely not the quickest things to make. But they’re pretty fun and not terribly difficult, provided you have the right […]