I’ll start this by blaming the alcohol and the heat.  And my family.  Last week we were on vacation with my parents, siblings/spouses, and kids/cousins in Orlando.  And it was hot.  Like 100 degrees hot with stifling humidity.  We went to Sea World and I nearly melted.  Don’t believe...

I know I mentioned recently that I hurt my back.  When I think about what the hell I did to it, all I keep coming up with is heavy duty gardening/digging up boulders, running, carrying around an almost three year old … and then loading a box containing 1/8th of a cow into my car.  Strangely enough,...

As I have mentioned repeatedly, I am very lazy about going to the grocery store.   If we decide to have burgers on a Saturday afternoon and I don’t have rolls, I’d rather make them than get into the car and trudge to the store.  There are just certain times I refuse to go the grocery store...

You know you are officially old when you are lacing your brownies with spinach.  And also a major nerd — because you have been contemplating how you feel about hiding vegetables in your children’s food.  And then writing about it.  How far I have fallen. I generally don’t like the...

I am not a fussy cook.  I have great respect for those who are, but I just seem to lack the patience and precision to do fine, detailed work.  So, pastry chefs have my ultimate admiration.  If I make cookies, they are usually drop-style rather than rolled and cut out.  Any cake I make usually tastes...

So, I have decided that this will be the post where you get to know the real me.  And it’s a beet recipe.  Are you scared yet? I am a raging hypochondriac.  I like to blame it on my crazy mind extreme intelligence.  I am like a real live database of stored symptoms and scary horror stories...

When I picked up our CSA share yesterday, I got another bunch of rhubarb to join two others in my fridge. We like rhubarb, so there is no good reason why we haven’t used it. I guess between weekend travel and having no time to make a dessert (which is how we prefer it, obviously), it has just...

Although we are eating less meat lately, it is impossible for me to say that a simple, whole roasted chicken is not a delicious thing.  First, when the meat is fresh and organic from your local farm, you will be astonished by how much better it tastes than its grocery store cousin.  Second, it can...