Word on the Street

Sometimes I wish being the person I want to be was as simple as setting the resolution and waking the next day to feel myself transformed. While self-reflection is at the heart of many successful practices like religion, meditation, sports performance and professional development it can sometimes feel less than rewarding. Example: Step 1- Set [...]

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Don’t Fear the Beet

I hear it all the time: Is this a beet? It’s sooo good! I even didn’t think I liked beets! Well, I’ve got news for you people, the beet is your friend. It is your friend not only because it is nourishing to your body, beautiful to look upon but (dun, dun, DUN!) easy to [...]

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Mexican Chef Salad

I am leaving the country for a few weeks and will be posting on anything that catches my eyes, ears, or tongue while away. Mexican food is what I miss most when I’m gone. Once I was served a chili pie in Kenya – the Tanzanian cook had looked up the recipe from some kind [...]

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Raw Kale Salad – Yes You Can

A friend gave me some kale cut right from her backyard and I really wanted to eat it that night. I usually just lightly saute the greens in garlic, olive oil and dried red chile. The only catch was that I had planned on making homemade pizza for some friends we were having over to [...]

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Executive Privilege

All cooks have secrets: Licking brownie batter off a spoon and sticking it back in the mixing bowl; The quick dust-off of a biscuit that rolls off the counter, declaring it good-as-new; Passing off purchased items as homemade. You know what I’m talking about. They don’t know what you’re up to in there. Here’s a [...]

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Worth Doing

This is worth doing. I made this sandwich for a road trip no less than five years ago and received rave reviews. Why it’s taken me that long to re-create it, I’m unsure. Perhaps it’s because it required me to shop for things that aren’t always in my pantry. Regardless, my husband almost cried when [...]

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Lamb Pita

I adore the flavor of lamb. Once Erin served me some kind of homemade lamb meatball in a homemade pita (she must reveal her secret bread-making strategy to you soon) and I almost wept. Something about these mid-eastern flavors just hit me in the right place. I can’t get enough. That memory was the inspiration [...]

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Food Paparazzi

The term food paparazzi has arrived. It refers to people (let’s be honest – bloggers) who storm restaurants, often arriving in groups with fellow food documentarians, snapping photos of their meals. Tales of setting up tripods and flash-pops going off in sedate dining rooms give bloggers with cameras a bad name. Some fine restaurants have [...]

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What To Do With A Bunch of Radishes

Inspiration: I recently read an article about how cooked radishes are the new new thing. The next week, I enjoyed a delicious meal in a restaurant that featured a tapas portion of roasted radishes with blue cheese and saba. Later that week, I received a bunch of pink beauties in my CSA box. In my [...]

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