When I was younger, one of my favorite restaurants offered a warm pinto bean dip along with their tortilla chips. After I left home, I craved the dip day and night. Fifteen years later, I’ve created a bean dip to fill that ever present craving. This dip takes the edge off of any homesickness I [...]
Continue Reading →I love the Super Bowl. I generally do not know which teams are playing until the week of the big game. But still, I love that one Sacred Sunday each year where we all get to eat like little piggies while we watch over-the-top commercials, followed by men trying to hurt one another. I just [...]
Continue Reading →On cold winter nights when I am feeling less than ambitious, I make Baked Pasta. Baked Pasta is a commoner’s dish that makes me feel comfortably common. Rather than follow the recipe for the red sauce below, you should take liberties and make your own (even if it’s canned). I have several friends who may [...]
Continue Reading →Each day I fix my four-year-old daughter one of three possibilities for lunch: a bowl of yogurt topped with granola, a fluffernut sandwich (more on that next week), or an ambitious bowl of macaroni and cheese. I tire of these possibilities; and after fixing her plate I always ask myself, “but what should I eat?”. [...]
Continue Reading →Oatmeal is a perfect food. It is easy to cook. It is easily influenced by other flavors. It is healthy. My kids eat it. At our house, we eat oatmeal from both ends of the spectrum–steel cut fancy oatmeal all the way to generic brand instant oatmeal from the cheapest grocery store. This year, I [...]
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