In our apartment, takeout pizza is the ultimate refuge: when we’re both too tired to cook, and the fridge and freezer are both empty, pizza saves the day. There will always be those days. But homemade pizza is about 100 times more satisfying and delicious, and with a little advance planning, super easy to make. [...]
This week has been very quiet on the cooking/blogging front, in a large part because I’ve been sick. But now I’m well again, and once again up to thinking about food, writing about food, and cooking and eating food. I promise there will soon be a glut of posts. Also, we have a new look. [...]
Slashfood recently drew my attention to a food blog oddity: a Twitter cookbook. For those unfamiliar, Twitter is a sort of micro-blogging (or some might say hyper-blogging): each post has a 140 character limit, and many people post multiple times per day. I’ve been resistant to joining Twitter or even following friends who use it, [...]
The blueberries I have in my fridge right now might be the last of the season. At the very best, there’s one more week. I’d like to do something appropriately wonderful with them, but it’s hard to decide. My ideas include making blueberries into: pancakes muffins soup salad, with goat cheese and walnuts pudding, like [...]
If you watch anything on the internet this week, watch this video. This post has nothing to do with food, but everything to do with keeping our food supply safe, along with our economy, national security, and our entire species. Yesterday, Al Gore gave a major speech on climate change, and I was lucky enough [...]
You may not know them by name, but if you’ve ever been to a dim-sum restaurant and feasted your eyes on stacks of mysterious dishes, choosing one here, one there as you eat your way through this traditional Chinese take on the buffet, you’ve probably run across little buns, baked or steamed, stuffed with seasoned [...]
This is sort of last week’s news, but I’m chronically behind in my blog-reading, and this was too good not to share. Oprah recently finished a 21-day stint as a vegan. Apparently she’s taken some flack in the past for questioning whether beef is safe to eat (and the beef industry let her know that [...]
One of the hardest things about cooking — for me, and for many other people I have talked to, of all ages and cooking levels — is figuring out what to make for dinner when you get home late and tired at the end of the day. Maybe your creativity was sapped at the office. [...]
For some time, I’ve been wanting to try a Hungarian mushroom recipe (mushrooms with paprika and sour cream) that I found in Deborah Madison’s “Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.” Last night was cold and rainy, and it seemed like the ideal night for it. The mushrooms are simple, beautiful, and much richer than I expected. After [...]