kale

If you’re anything like me you probably love to read food blogs. If you’re not like me and this is the only food blog that you visit (I am so incredibly flattered!) then I would like to apologize for the lack of pink sprinkles and red

Kale is the hot new in-season vegetable to cook, and who am I to go against the grain (pun intended). Kale has actually been grown for more than two millennia with the first written references dating back to Greek and Roman times. That inspired me to c...

Winter time is upon us and friends are dropping like flies with colds and the dreaded flu.  There are lots of good articles online about how to boost your immune system and prevent getting ill.  Two of my favorite ways to boost the immune sys...

 Here's a hearty winter pasta dish with roasted squash. Roasting concentrates the sugars in vegetables, so this squash tastes sweet. Many people who ordinarily don't like squash (like my husband) will eat this up and ask for seconds. Adding the sa...

Michael's brother is visiting us in Cali and he just celebrated his first wedding anniversary with his beautiful Italian/Irish wife, Meaghan. He says they make this soup a lot, and I thought it was a perfect way to cheers their first year together. He ...

It has recently come to my attention that this food blog of mine has given me a bit of a bad reputation among my healthy friends. I guess all of my talk about heavy cream and fried chicken has people

Before we took off for Oshkosh, I engaged in a boatload of mental gymnastics... This is not the Hopscotch Honeymoon. This is not the Hopscotch Honeymoon. You will not go to Mackinac Island on the way home. This is not the Hopscotch Honeymoon. You see, ...

Kale, grilled sausage and white beans make a hearty summer salad.Kale, with its sturdy leaves, feels like a winter green (and it does fit well, of course, in cold weather cooking), yet the farmers markets and grocery stores are full of it now. ...

Zesty "dinosaur" kale chips INGREDIENTS 3 large bunches lacinato or "dinosaur" kale, washed and stems removed 1 1/4 cups raw cashews 1 large red bell pepper, seeded and stem removed 3 tablespoons nutritional yeast 2 lemons,...

As a responsible food blogger, it is only right that I close out the month of April with a grilled cheese sandwich.  April is/was National Grilled Cheese Month, and it’s been a mouthwatering delight to see all the amazing melted cheese concoctions food bloggers & chefs have created. It’s funny: I am a huge...