Journaling Your Way to Better Cooking:
Spicy Sausage and Rice
On my journey to becoming a real cook (see definition below) I rely on a variety of tools – questions to other cooks, classes, cooking shows, reading and journaling. Since I didn’t grow up at my mother’s side everyday learning the ins and outs of cooking (in this day and age very few people have [...]
Chicken and Broccoli with
Whole Wheat Pasta
Have you had enough chocolate yet? Well there’s more to come from me this month, but for now I’ll give your sweet tooth a break and share a recipe for a light entrée you can try just in case you had too many desserts this past weekend or have been eating heavy meals a little too [...]
Turkey Mushroom Lasagna
Go Obama! That’s what I said as I prepared this dish for dinner on election night. Instead of going out to a loud watch party in D.C. to buy appetizers and $12 to $15 drinks, I went to a friend’s house and made a home cooked meal for the two of us as we watched [...]
Turkey Sausage Patties
Growing up in the south, breakfast just wasn’t breakfast without some kind of meat included (a real breakfast anyway – cold cereal doesn’t count). I used to eat all kinds of stuff that today I don’t even touch – pork bacon, livermush, fried bologna, pork sausage patties or links, and my old favorite, corned beef [...]
Cooking with Wine: Wine-Braised Chicken with Cherry Tomatoes and Herbed Rice
As I wrote last week, I spent my Labor Day weekend mingling with farmers, organic foodies and food justice activists at Slow Food Nation ’08 in San Francisco. In addition to sampling artisan breads, loose-leaf teas and fair trade chocolate and sightseeing in the Bay area, my friends and I rented a PT Cruiser and [...]
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