Posts under ‘Recipes’

Last week’s Hunger Challenge wrapped on Saturday, but I’m still working on recipes that combine the ingredients that I was able to purchase on my $28 budget. I’ll be rolling those out this week for your reading (and eating-on-a-budget) pleasure. I’m also still working on a post that lays out an entire menu for the [...]

I promised I’d share a few recipes that use the roasted vegetable stock, and the first one is one of the recipes that I planned to post as part of my write-up of the Hunger Challenge, but just never got around to organizing. This particular recipe is incredibly simple, quick, nourishing and tasty. When I [...]

I have no excuse for buying vegetable stock my entire life. I don’t know why I thought tetra packs of the stuff contained some kind of non-creatable magic, but I finally broke out of this silly habit of consumption this weekend and tried making my own. This particular kind required a couple of hours of [...]

I love butternut squash, but don’t eat it nearly as often as I would like, mostly because I hate the act of prepping it. It’s not difficult, but it’s just enough of a pain that I generally pass it over in favor of other solid sources of Vitamins A, B and C. But not that [...]

My colds generally take a very standard progression: A runny nose leads to a sore throat and then to a cough that could take two to three weeks to completely disappear. Sometime in the early part of this century, I started throwing sinus infections into the mix, like the bad maraschino cherry in the Shirley [...]

It is a New Year. Thusly and therefore, we should all be adhering to our resolutions: saving our pennies, eating more healthfully, flossing EVERY DAY (Yes, dental hygienist, I heard you hollering at me…), and quite possibly avoiding wine. OK, let’s ignore that part about the wine. But sometimes, even a healthy lifestyle deserves something [...]

If someone told me I was only allowed to make one category of cuisine for the rest of my life, I would tell them where to shove it. However, if I was really cornered on this issue, since violence is not the answer, I believe I would say, “OK, then. Tapas it is.” First of [...]

I decided this Thanksgiving will not be traditional. Why serve turkey, for example, when I live just a block or so from excellent Peking duck? Why serve green bean casserole when I can serve garlicky Romano beans with rosemary, every ingredient of which will be grown or produced within 100 miles of here? Why serve [...]

In recent years, I’ve become less and less of a dessert eater. I’m caught up by the savory far more than the sweet, and would rather cap off dinner with a really good glass of port or single malt scotch than a slice of chocolate torte. A bite here, a bite there, that’s really all [...]

This is the story of a friend named Sam, and how she inspired me to try something new. See, back in September, Sam pulled off an all-out (and ultimately v. successful) blitz of fundraising for Race for the Cure, setting herself what sounded like an impossible goal and then going after it with every resource [...]