Everyone needs a good meatloaf recipe up their sleeve. Especially when its cold outside and all you want is to curl up in a ball and eat comfort food (please, please tell me that’s not just me!?!). When I make meatloaf I require 2 thing of it: 1. That I…
I’m betting you have leftover turkey today. I do. I would also put money on having your fridge full of gelatinized gravy, a serving or so of green beans, and so, so many mashed potatoes. In my fridge I had a little glass dish that I wasn’t sure if it…
Pasta is a weeknight staple – fast, easy, filling, and requiring little in the way of skill or attention. If you can boil water and heat sauce, you can have dinner on the table in 20 minutes. When I have some spare moments, I like to make a home-made pasta…
Every once in awhile you get an ingredient that you don’t know how to handle, or what to do with. Eggplant is one of those for me. But at the same time the challenge of, what the devil am I going to do with this, becomes fun. At least we…
I am a big fan of recipes that involve a bit of loving neglect. I love cooking, but am an avid multitasker, or possibly (read: likely) I just get distracted easily. So recipes that involve intentional forgetfulness are my bread and butter. It also hurts my soul to toss food…
We had some torrential rain this past week at my home base in the Salty City. It was my cue that it is time to kiss summer goodbye. Though I tend to do so kicking and screaming… I love harvest veggies and sweaters and soup that come along with the…
Forbidden Rice Pudding sounds nice and naughty… in a delicously contraband kind of way. We all appreciate forbidden fruit, and I would stack this rice pudding made with coconut milk up against original sin. First things first – what exactly IS forbidden rice? It is a type of purple-black rice-an…
I dream of a future where I have time to thoughtfully compose my daily menu over a cup of jasmine tea. As I contemplate the best of the season with a little prayer to the kitchen gods, I imagine embarking on my daily pilgrimage to the various small markets to…