Weekend breakfasts are special. It’s a gift to have that extra time to make something out-of-the-ordinary, something exquisitely yummy that you can’t indulge in during the busy week’s schedule. Owen’s favorite is pancakes, particularly banana pancakes with chocolate chip smiley faces. Yeah, he’s four and damn cute. Me? I get a little tired of pancakes […]
I have a weird relationship with pistachios. Not weird in the sense that we’ve been dating for years and pistachios are pressuring me to get married, but weird in the sense that I can’t stop eating them once I start. Now, this is probably true with a lot of people when it comes to nuts […]
Hi! I’m Isabelle, a rookie cook who wants to learn more about cooking in order to add variety to my table and also to eat better and healthier. Each week, I plan to share with you my experiences in learning how to cook, be it a new technique, a new tool, a new recipe or […]
Nowadays, people are trying to eat healthier than they have before. Just look at how the menu at McDonald’s changed over the past few years to fit that shift in eating behavior. If you had told the owner of McDonald’s 10 years ago that in 2009 the restaurant chain would be serving salads, he would […]
Folks, I want to alert you to a conspiracy to fatten every single American who goes out to eat. We’re not talking about aliens who are slowly taking over by injecting small amounts of cellulite into us every night; that’s just a known fact that’s been on the cover of The Sun. What we’re talking […]
Let me introduce myself. My name is Richard Keller and, as of January 17th, I have not had a McDonald’s burger or fry in two years. Shocking, I know! Especially since you can’t throw a chicken nugget out the car window without striking a set of golden arches. Nevertheless, it’s true. It’s also a bit […]
With Christmas comes cookbooks, at least in our family. My brother gave me one that I’d never heard of: Super Natural Cooking: Five Ways To Incorporate Whole and Natural Ingredients into Your Cooking by Heidi Swanson. He assured me it was not about cooking for ghosts or demons, so I cracked it open the other […]