You may remember that, over 2 years ago (!) I fell in love with Kim O’Donnel’s The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour. Kim’s book inspired me to make tempeh for the first time and I’ve had success with everything I’ve made out of that book. This year for Christmas my sister [...]
Last night, despite National Weather Forecast warnings for thunderstorms, hail and tornados, Brian and I ventured to the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley. Marisa McClellan was signing her recent book, Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year-Round (also the name of her fabulous canning blog). Blogger book signings are so rare in our area [...]
In July, I finally got around to reading 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam. It’d been on my list of books I wanted to read for a while, but I just hadn’t had the time (seriously). I wanted to read it because, at least in my perception, I have [...]
A couple weeks ago, I posted about my favorite recipe websites (still in love with Super Cook, by the way). Of course, the alternative to the internet is the cookbook. I don’t have a lot of cookbooks; I figure all the food blogs I read make up for it. I do like cookbooks though and [...]
Last night I had the exciting opportunity to listen to farmer and author Ben Hewitt speak. Ben is the author of The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food. After all the press the book’s been getting (see below), I was surprised he was coming to the Berkshires. I was [...]
I was really excited a couple months ago when I realized Mark Bittman had a new cookbook out. As frequent readers can attest, I have a borderline unhealthy obsession with Mr. Bittman. Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating had a big impact in changing the way I eat and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian is my [...]
Clearly getting married and then getting settled into my new life has kept me busy, because I was totally unaware that Mark Bittman published a new cookbook early last month! (Thank goodness for Facebook!) The book, Kitchen Express: 404 Inspired Seasonal Dishes You Can Make in 20 Minutes or Less, has 101 recipes for each season [...]
It took me longer than it should’ve (I need to work on making reading a priority), but I finally finished reading The Flexitarian Diet: The Mostly Vegetarian Way to Lose Weight, Be Healthier, Prevent Disease and Add Years to Your Life by Dawn Jackson Blatner. It was certainly one of the most educational books I’ve [...]
Yesterday I finally got around to making Lime Sugar Cookies with Pumpkin Seeds from the Rebar Modern Food Cookbook. I borrowed the cookbook from the library months ago, and the cookies were one of the few things that really intrigued me at the time. I found them both easy to make and delicious. Generally speaking, [...]
The Garden: @matthewharris tweeted this great map of the White House garden this morning. Impressive. Someday I would like to have a garden of my own, but I suspect it will be on a smaller scale. Bill Niman and Nicolette Hahn Niman of The Atlantic agree that the new garden is great, but would like [...]
