I’m a salsa girl. I love salsa on everything. But I’m pretty particular about my salsas and usually whip up my own. But there is one salsa that I’ve fallen in love with…Pace. I mean, when Cook’s Illustrated, who I consider to be a real authority on food, even tells you that Pace Salsa is [...]
Continue reading...9. June 2009
What age do you have to be before birthdays aren’t a big deal? Sure, you don’t have the year long countdown you had when you were 7, but everyone hopes for a little pampering or kind well wishes. The part I think we struggle with is getting a year older. I am [...]
Continue reading...2. June 2009
Not your average pie.
Continue reading...23. May 2009
Because man cannot live on Macaroni Salad alone.
Continue reading...6. May 2009
Yes, read that right. No, you’re not at Martha’s site. See, we had friends over for dinner. You know how that is…when you pretend that you eat like this every day. GUESTS: “Nice salad.” YOU: “What? This old thing? Why, as we told our perfectly darling children just yesterday as we were eating Sauteed Foie Gras [...]
Continue reading...22. April 2009
Oatmeal Cookies are the Rodney Dangerfield of the cookie community. They just don't get no respect, ya know? They have a reputation as being bland, slightly boring attempts to pass off a healthy breakfast grain as a dessert. But just try this recipe.
Continue reading...25. March 2009
I love the Food Network. It's totally an American thing. Only in America could a red-headed, freckled Irish Opie-lookalike like Bobby Flay be known for appearing on TV as an expert in spicy Tex-Mex cooking.
Continue reading...6. March 2009
It makes great use of fond. Fond, as many of you know, is French for "that really tasty stuff that's stuck to the bottom of your pan, you uncivilized American!"
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27. June 2009
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