Ginger, Coriander and Orange Braised Chicken Inspired by flipping through Nigel Slater’s Appetite which has been sitting on my desk for the past 2 weeks because I can’t stop looking at it. I love his style of cooking – “a small handful of...
I’ve never been interested in cooking traditional American BBQ, mainly because I do not like what I cannot control, and in this particular case, the BBQ grill is outside of my domain with a fat “trespassing renders marriage contract null and void“ sticker on the...
Opportunity Cost…Revised… I’ve written about opportunity cost of eating out last year, and re-wrote the post with a brand new recipe for my newspaper food column this week… Before we had children, my husband and I used to eat out no fewer than...
We bought some Praying Mantis egg cases (you can get them from Gardener’s Supply) – one of them finally hatched and we all watched in wonder as hundreds of Praying Panties wiggled their way out of the egg case. Yes, only my kids would call them Praying...
If there’s one thing that I absolutely cannot stand, it’s wasting vibrant, perky produce. But when a recipe calls for only 1 tbl of fresh, minced herb and the store only sells them in gargantuan bunches, my palms sweat as I begin planning my week’s menu all around...
