Posts under ‘Food’

Note: This is reblogged from BlogHer, where it appeared yesterday. But I wanted to share this with those of you who don’t read me over there. I have spent a good portion of my life trying to balance out time for creative work and time for work that actually pays the bills, fitting in art [...]

I have friends all over the place, most of whom I’ve met the old-fashioned way: in person, through some job or school or work or networking connection. But oh, how the Internet has enriched my life and brought me in touch with people who, otherwise, I might never have met. Yeah, I’m pretty much going [...]

“There’s a restaurant downtown I think you’d like,” said my friend Amy when I visited her in Madison, Wis. last week. Oh my friends, how they know me. Amy was, of course, totally right, and that is how we ended up at Harvest, a small, warm space on the square that features the state capitol, [...]

Over the weekend, I went in a giant grocery store in Madison, Wisconsin with my friends in search of some local cheese curds. We found what we were looking for, but since it has been so long since I regularly shopped at that kind of store, the aisles and aisles of brightly-colored boxes of processed [...]

I bought sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, but in the crush of food that me and my fantastic guests made and brought, they became superfluous, which means I’m now managing a sweet potato surplus. Earlier this week, I started dispatching them using a great recipe for Soy-Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Sesame Seeds I found on my [...]

A few weeks ago, I made and froze my first-ever potpie. On a day when I had some particularly thorny budget issues to work on, I took some of the leftovers to the office with me. After all, there are times when a girl just knows she’s going to need some comfort food midway through [...]

If you’re reading this, I survived the run-up to Thanksgiving. Oh, I know. First-world problems, really. I MUST CLEAN. I MUST BUY CRAZY AMOUNTS OF LOCALLY-SOURCED FOOD. I MUST TEAR MY HAIR OUT AND RANT AND ROAR AND WHINE. So, enough already. Here’s the sunny side of the street. For the second year in a [...]

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on BlogHer on Monday, but I felt it was important enough that I wanted to cross-post it here. I encourage you to visit BlogHer and read the thoughtful comments readers have been posting, as well — I really appreciate hearing everyone’s thoughts on this particular issue. Late last week, [...]

To distract you from any sight of the frenzied house cleaning and Thanksgiving preparations going on at my place, I’d like to send you in the direction of a new blog for which I’ve started writing: Confessions of a Locavore. Ever wondered what deep, dark secrets sworn locavores keep when we’re not eating within 100 [...]

As I was shopping for the Hunger Challenge and pondering the budget-friendly combo of potatoes and eggs, it occurred to me that one of my very favorite Spanish recipes is also one of the most economical ones I know. Tortilla español, with its simple combination of flavors, is just an advanced version of a frittata, [...]