Your Radish Recipes Just Got Better!
Spring is here and I’m in the mood for radish recipes. You too? Well you’ve come to the right place. Today I’m telling you how to cook radishes (and why you should cook radish!) so that you can add radishes to recipes in a whole new way.
Read More...Birthday Brownies With White Chocolate & Almonds On Top
On Tuesday morning I woke to a serenade from both a three-year-old and then from a greeting card. I opened presents surrounded by the smell of freshly brewed coffee (brewed by someone other than me!) and then I got a rare snuggle and heard words that made my cheeks wet, “Mommy, you’re the best. Let’s [...]
Read More...Strawberry And White Chocolate Pancakes For J *AND* For His Mom
For my son’s first week of school the plan was to make him some sweet treats that he would totally love. But somehow my own taste buds managed to get in the way. I dreamed up some pancakes stuffed full of his favourite things. Then I got practical and narrowed it down to strawberries and [...]
Read More...Corn and Chipotle Soup Might Help. Will You Make Me Some?
He jogs up the field, a zig, a zag, oops a tumble but then he’s up again and in position. The ball streaks toward his outstretched hands as the crowd goes nuts. Yes! He caught it! A proud parent jumps up and claps. Not me. I was not the proud parent at the Y’s Itty [...]
Read More...My Top Ten BlogHer Food Experiences and Bacony Bread Pudding
I went to high school with a guy who seriously thought he was David Letterman. He forever tarnished Top Ten Lists for me. And yet, when I sat down to write about my time in Atlanta at BlogHer Food a Top Ten List spewed forth. 10) Being filmed cutting a mango. Who’s idea was it [...]
Read More...Tales of a Leftover Chicken Episode I: Soup to Feel Better About the News
I haven’t been feeling great lately. I have bronchitis. Worse. yesterday morning I woke up to disappointing news from my home country. I’m not going to get into the details here because: it’s way too upsetting and I don’t want to ruin your day; it’s very political – I’ll wait until we know each other [...]
Read More...A Korean Stew to Soothe Any Cold (Jaden Hair’s Spicy Korean Tofu Stew)
At Food Blog Forum Orlando last weekend I won an amazing prize: Jaden Hair‘s The Steamy Kitchen: 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight’s Dinner. When I got home my little J came down with a fever and cough. My own followed. I wasn’t in the mood to cook, let alone sample new dishes. Or [...]
Read More...If You Can’t Stand The Heat, You Can Still Hang In My Kitchen (Thai Curry and Mango Salad For Picky Palates)
If you’ve come here via Roget’s newsletter, click here for the Sweet and Sour Thai Mango Salad recipe that I’m pairing with the Le Paradou Viognier from Provence, France (or head to the bottom of this post for the recipe). __________________________________________________________ At 9-months-old J happily ate ridiculously spicy Afghani rice. At 18-months-old he requested a [...]
Read More...Use Booze: A Port Reduction to Adult-It-Up
My little J is not interested in sauces: He does not want any liquid to touch his food (except maple syrup, which he will use to drench anything, even broccoli!). He does not like dips (unless he’s dipping his fingers in ketchup and then putting them in his mouth for a suck). Any kind of [...]
Read More...How to Have Your Mushrooms and Eat Them Too
If you’ve ever run into us at the grocery story, I don’t blame you for thinking that my little J loves mushrooms. It would be a totally acceptable belief given the evidence: J sitting in the cart with a blue styro package of pre-washed sliced mushrooms on his lap as he happily chows down on [...]
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