Cooking Simplified
I have a terrible habit of projecting my pity onto lone, elderly diners. I go through a quick checklist in my head, building a completely unfounded story about why each person is eating alone. No wedding ring? Have they never experienced love and partnership? Did they lose their spouse to illness? You get the point …
I have always been a huge fan of dips. I can destroy a veggie and ranch platter in a matter of minutes. If a Superbowl party has french onion dip and/or queso, I won’t even come up for air. Hummus is fine, too…though try spending a few months living in Israel, where hummus is an art …
I love Italian food (authentic Italian food, but also the version we’ve created right here in America…we have a way of translating ethnic cuisines into less threatening, less exciting variations of the original, don’t we? Macaroni Grill, I’m lookin’ at you!). In fact, these days I have an Italian restaurant routine: I begin by dunking each piece …
It’s a bold claim, I know. They hold the title for two main reasons – and I will share those reasons, but first I need to get something off my chest. I may eat seafood these days, but after nearly twenty years of a vegetarian diet, I feel like I’ve earned some veggie credibility. I recently …
I rarely feel that I am missing out when it comes to eating meat. Since incorporating fish and seafood into my diet two years ago (previously I had been purely vegetarian for 16 years) I have been incredibly satisfied. And, truth be told, if the day comes when I want to order a steak, I …
In the past two weeks I have turned my laptop on several times with the intention of blogging a recipe. Unfortunately the impulse to check the news is too powerful and I have spent each night poring over articles and videos about the Israeli-Arab conflict. Technology has given us the ability to hear and see …