• comfort food

    [Image description] Comfort food for my husband and I can mean a bowl of homemade soup, a dish of pasta or meatloaf. I normally make an all-beef meatloaf, but recently Kay Chun from The New York Times...

  • meatless Monday

    [Image description] I love to both cook and eat! My morning breakfast consists of low-fat Greek yogurt, fresh strawberries or blueberries and granola. Sometimes I munch on the granola when I’m hungry;...

  • risotto simplified

    [Image description] This past weekend I had a craving for risotto and recently caught an episode of America’s Test Kitchen where Elle Simone Scott demonstrated an easier method for making shrimp risotto;...

  • about that five hour recipe

    [Image description] A few weeks ago on public broadcasting, 177 Milk Street aired an episode on focaccia. What is focaccia? In Italy it’s considered a street food, a flat bread made with a dough similar...

  • new year, new flavors

    - - This past week, I made several wonderful recipes. Prep times ranged from a quick 15 minutes, an hour and one recipe that took over 5 hours. More about the last one later this week. I already have...

  • tempting flavors

    - - ​The year ended on a flavorful note. A neighbor shared some Ruby Red grapefruits he received as a gift. While you can eat the grapefruits as is, my husband found an interesting recipe in the December...