This Must Be the Place

My recent addiction to Tastespotting is paying dividends in the form of a burgeoning bookmark file, and a whole other place to look when I...

Although obviously not vegetarian, we do eat that way three or four times a week, most weeks. Last week we had three winners, at least one o...

I have made some very good soups from Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special . This is not one of them. I'm not going to bother typing it ou...

First truly stand-out recipe of the new year, these were amazingly good, and not much trouble at all to make. I am going to have to keep an ...

I must say that the first week of January has been a good one for the goals. It usually is, of course. I found plentiful opportunity to use ...

I hardly ever blog side dishes. This is because I hardly ever make side dishes; throw some vegetables in the steamer and make some rice, is ...

This was one of those "I have x, let me do a search..." recipes. I bought a couple of eggplants on a whim at the farmer's mark...

Wednesday, well... kind of sucked. Only kind of--the kids went to their checkup and we received no alarming news, and it was a productive da...

L turned five on Wednesday, and for the first time we decided that she ought to have a real party, not just family members, so we invited tw...

As I've probably mentioned here before, my mother isn't much for cooking; as far as I can tell, when she's not having company, s...

Having finally been inspired to put together a nearly-full slate of new recipes for the week, I have not been organized enough to blog about...

Just another generic status update--the longer one goes between, the harder it gets to do them.... These past couple of days, my cooking imp...

This was part of last night's dinner. I don't really want to review this now, but did want to leave something of a placeholder for a...

Sometimes I don't even make it all the way through the first read of a recipe before I'm starting to make changes. "Blanching t...

Some months ago, on a whim, I bought a package of yellow lentils. Since then, they have mostly been lugged around by my son, who loves pulli...

I have to say, I was a little impressed with how organized I was last night (major credit goes to D for keeping the kids out of my hair for ...

First new recipe of the new year! I've had a package of thin rice noodles in my pantry for probably years--I may have bought it with opt...

Supper clubs tend to evolve the way they do things over time. For this month, rather than have the whole group try to wrangle out a theme, w...

It's been a while. The height of summer is not really recipe-friendly. But yesterday I managed to sit down and put together an actual li...

The usual jam-packed weekend. We spent Saturday morning doing house drive-bys in the Tewksbury area, and found some reason to be encouraged,...