Sometimes you think you know how much you love something or someone, and then they do something that surprises you and makes you love them even more. Like when you come downstairs in the morning and discover that your husband has done all of …
Are you sick of quinoa yet? No? Not quite? ME NEITHER! I love this stuff. I love the flavor, texture, and how it makes anything you add it to into a filling meal in itself. Now, some of you may think I need to move …
I don’t know about where you live, but around Chicago it’s been a pretty freakishly hot summer. I’ve been effectively using the baby as an excuse not to leave the air-conditioning pretty much since June, and I’m sorry to say that my poor garden has …
Where to begin… where to begin… there are so many great things about this salad, I don’t know where to start. First, it as fennel in it. Raw fennel. And some of you may recall that I was pretty sure I hated fennel until I …
Now, I know that I’ve been quite the delinquent lately. For this, I apologize. But you didn’t think I’d let the week before Thanksgiving go by without so much as a peep, did you? There are too many fabulous food-related things to talk about this …
Good news! We are officially in autumn territory! That means that all I want to do these days is go apple picking, roast pumpkin seeds, watch leaves change colors, breathe in crisp air, wear sweaters, drink cider, and oh yeah… eat all kinds of food …
I don’t know about you, but I had a lot of extra quinoa hanging around after I made that quinoa salad. Like, a LOT of quinoa. What’s a girl to do? And then I remembered something, sort of had a flashback if you will… …
I’m trying to do this healthy-eating thing a little bit. It just seems like it’s so easy in summer, when there is such a plethora of vegetables and fruit everywhere, that it would be a shame not to. For me, quinoa equals healthy. Because it …
Have you missed me? I’m sorry I’ve been MIA for the past few days. It isn’t so much me, or a lack of cooking. You see, it’s my computer. It was, well… struck by lightning. Actually, our house was struck by lightning, which somehow fried …
I haven’t always loved American potato salad. I grew up on German potato salad, and before you say, “Ew gross,” I’m not talking about the German potato salad you buy at the grocery store or they serve at restaurants some times. I’m talking about the …