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Sweets, sweets, and more sweets for my Valentine’s Day sweetheart
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the last day of January. Time to get those holiday decorations tucked away if you haven’t already done so, clear out the freezer and throw away the sad and sorry remains of what was once a truly stupendous holiday feast, and start thinking about Valentine’s Day.
Yes, we are galloping, positively galloping, [...]
Italian food recipe for a husband who won’t eat his veg
Me: “Let’s get some tomatoes.”
Husband: “No, I’m off tomatoes.”
Me: “You’ve been off tomatoes forever.”
Husband: “Well, I still am.”
Me: “Okay, then. So what do you want?”
Husband, looking around: “Oooh! There’s some bocconcini over there.”
Me: “That’s not veg. What veg do you want?”
Husband, walking toward the bocconcini: “Do you know it means mouthfuls in Italian. That’s because [...]
Farmer brown
Yesterday, I talked abut interviewing farmers and learning the value of really, really fresh foods. But I also interviewed farmers who gave me a glimpse as to where our food comes from.
I must say, I found it all quite fascinating. If you find this fascinating, too, here are few interesting facts I got from a [...]
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your … food recipe for … ears!
A while back, I ate an ear of corn. Raw. And, assuming it was fresh, I would do so again in a heartbeat.
Why, you may be asking, did I do such an odd thing? Let me tell you.
As a freelance writer, I get to interview all sorts of people, from CEO’s and celebrities to politicians [...]
Food recipe: ‘Nanner, the Superhero of breakfasts
Yesterday I alluded to my superhero “jam-packed with fiber and a poop load of wholesome goodness” breakfast.
And not a person, not a single, solitary, person, in the entire English-speaking universe wrote to ask me what, exactly, was in this mythical breakfast.
Ah, shyness. How I understand your torments. No worries, people. I’m just going to [...]
When you really gotta go, but …
First, I tripped across a post on dooce.com. Then, I noticed the flurry (Flurry? Hell, avalanche.) of responses. And the topic seems to be all over the Internet lately: Posts, comments, even full-blown discussions on, of all things, constipation.
No joke. It’s a big problem.
So, seeing as this is a blog about food, and seeing as [...]
Coffee talk
Well, here’s an interesting little tidbit. Not only has a North Carolina scientist invented a way to mask the bitterness of caffeine so it can be added to baked goods (mmmm, caffeine), but he is now taking his act on the road and pitching it to bakeries and coffee shops ranging from Krispy Kreme and [...]
Bad doggie, bad employee, bad ingredient list
You know how I am big on reading food labels and ingredient lists? “It’s the only way to tell with any accuracy what’s in it,” I say. “It’s the only way to judge the quality of your food,” I insist. “It’s the only way to know for sure!”
Well, is it?
In one case, thank heavens, it [...]
Food recipe and The Amazing Shrinking Soufflé
My husband thinks a soufflé should be concave. He was, shall we say encouraged to this conclusion after years of proudly showing him fallen soufflé after fallen soufflé and telling him it took a lot of work to get that perfect concave shape.
So it is no wonder, then, that my first thought on seeing this [...]
Monster mash
Well, Hardee’s just announced the “Monster Biscuit,” a door stopper of a sandwich consisting of “three half-strips of bacon, a sausage patty, four slices of shaved ham, a folded egg and two slices of cheese all on a Made-From-Scratch Biscuit.”
Don’t’cha just want to sneak up behind them, smack them in the back of the head, [...]