If I purchase any animal protein besides dairy or eggs, it’s usually seafood. We don’t eat a lot of it, but it makes an appearance on our table at least monthly. I always struggle to come up with original recipes, but seafood is especially difficult. I don’t have that much experience with it and I [...]
It’s hard to believe that a week from today most of the Christmas festivities will be over. I feel like this season has been both long and short at the same time and I really wish time would stop for awhile so I could come close to catching up with all of the things that [...]
I am a chronically and perhaps annoyingly early Christmas shopper. Since we alternate spending Christmas and Thanksgiving which each set of parents, Brian and I usually have everyone’s shopping almost done by Thanksgiving so we can bring them with us when we visit (we opened presents with my parents on Saturday night). Nevertheless, I get [...]
Last week’s highlights were intended to help you plan and execute a perfect Thanksgiving day meal. I’m hoping that by this point in time you have all your plans for Thursday figured out. I’m really excited about Thanksgiving though, so I couldn’t resist writing another highlights post on the topic. Impress the others at your [...]
This week, Google changed some of the options in Reader. Usually I’m a cheerleader for website upgrades; I’m one of the few people who gets really excited about whatever new features Facebook has and I always upgrade to the newest version of sites as soon as I can. The latest version of Reader, however, is [...]
I used like Halloween, I think. But maybe this wig started to ruin it for me? Or the realization that I was about to be shorter than my younger sister? (Also, I never noticed that she dressed up in camouflage the same year that I sported a peace sign on my face. A sign of [...]
Tomorrow, October 24 is Food Day in the United States. Hosted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Day hopes to encourage Americans and Congress to: Reduce diet-related disease by promoting safe, healthy foods Support sustainable farms & limit subsidies to big agribusiness Expand access to food and alleviate hunger Protect the [...]
Back in June, I posted my canning list for the coming season. It looked like this: home canned tomatoes pickled green beans (made last year and loved) apple sauce (attempted last year and failed, as seen below) spiced apple rings (made last year successfully) brandied pears dill pickles peach chutney tomato-basil jam raspberry jam pear [...]
The big news story of the past couple weeks has been the 109 cases of listeria that have killed 21 people so far. Death by cantaloupe, unbelievable. I could start talking about the state of food safety in general, but that’s already been done here, here and here. In other depressing news, according to a [...]
For a while, I was sort of opposed to restaurants. I thought it was cheaper, healthier and more fun to make and eat my own food at home. I’m not sure that’s untrue, but lately I’ve been increasingly interested in checking out local restaurant establishments and discovering what others are creating. Getting inspiration from the [...]
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