“All the cool kids are eating this kale salad”, I told my husband. He poked at the kale and said “It looks great, but why is the kale raw?” “Because, it’s a salad,” I replied…
Valentine’s Menus for Every Stage of Romance
It is time to cook dinner for your sweetheart. It should be easy. Stress is not romantic. It should make your house smell good. It should be delicious, but not something that inspires gluttony.
Honey-Lime Herbal ‘Lixir
This is a recipe for a little cocktail. It’s not to sweet, a little sly and pretty darn sure of itself. It’s very international and may be the only one of its kind, so get ready!
Quinoa Soup for Adventurers
I have been working all day and this morning I took out books from the library on traveling Europe. I’ve been reading them on the bus and getting excited.
Beautiful Five Bean Stew
This is the patron recipe of working single mothers and students working to put themselves through college. It is simple, healthful, cheap.
Curried Broccoli Soup with Cashew Cream (vegan)
I have a broccoli soup recipe from the New Vegetarian Epicure which I absolutely adore. I was not on the prowl for a new broccoli soup, but…
Butter Cookies with Chocolate Hazelnut Filling (Gluten-Free)
Before giving up gluten, I was big cookie lover. I used to know where to get the kind of crispy, buttery chocolate chip cookie that I like, in almost every neighborhood in Manhattan. It was a survival mechanism.
Mona’s Gingercake (and a Gluten-Free, Vegan version)
I once made about a dozen gingerbread recipes and invited my friends over to taste all of them. It was an obsessive episode (not unlike my recent situation with cauliflower, only nowhere near as healthy).
Roasted Cauliflower with Gremolata Bread Crumbs (gluten-free)
I have eaten many, many heads of cauliflower in the last month. My husband is out of town, so I ate them all by myself….well, maybe I fed a little bit to my girlfriends who came over for lunch…
Very Simple Sherried Shrimp
I found this recipe on Food52 which the meeting place of excellent home cooks on-line. There are a lot of wonderful recipes to be found here. In fact, the collective wisdom of home cooks on this sight is positively overwhelming.
Big Sis Little Dish 