Month: March 2009

When Ken and I first moved to Los Angeles, we’d go to our favorite local bar every Sunday night. We’d sit in a booth sipping local microbrews and munching upmarket bar snacks like wood fired …

My early encounters with sweet potatoes were of the Thanksgiving variety – candied from a can and topped with marshmallows and tooth-achingly sweet. I was not a big fan. I wanted dessert for dessert, and …

It has been one of those weeks. You know what I mean. I have approximately sixty deadlines at work, my house looks like a tornado hit it, and that tornado takes shape in the form …

It’s confession time. I love mashed potatoes. I know they’re terribly unfashionable in our low glycemic-index, phytochemical-obsessed, Mediterranean Diet culture. They’re stodgy and white and lacking in high concentrations of flavonoids or anthocyanins, without the …

I’m always looking for easy crockpot recipes that can either feed a crowd or be repurposed as leftovers.  This crockpot pulled pork – made with vinegar in the Carolina style, is the most popular recipe …

Recipes Appetizers and Snacks Baked Scotch Eggs Beet, Blue Cheese and Bacon Dip Black Eyed Pea and 3 Pepper Salsa Caesar Salad Chicken Liver Mousse Crispies (Open Face Quesadillas) Crispy Chinese Garlic Chicken Wings Clam …

There’s this idea when it comes to baked goods, especially in America, that more is necessarily better. More gooey, more sweet, more creamy, more decadent. And while I am IN NO WAY coming out against …