As penance for the Vanilla Bean Rice Pudding this past Wednesday, I thought we’d offer y’all fantastic folks something healthy to turn it all around. We tried quinoa for the first time not that long ago and I still reflect on how unsuited that pudding and I were. Sis Blogging Partner liked it a lot, [...]

My boss got the new Ina Garten cookbook in recently and I had the chance the pore over it briefly with her. As in saying, “Yes!” A lot. Then I took the chance to buy it right after. I just love Garten’s recipes and approach to cooking. While, yeah, some of her recipes are a [...]

It’s pretty amazing I even stopped to read the original recipe, the title of which was Roasted Mushrooms Escargot-Style, by Gourmet. First of all, slimy creatures have never been my friends. I almost gag to remember the original title and what it references, but we must credit our sources here, and it wouldn’t do the [...]

I’ve never been a particularly big fan of cauliflower, barely even a passing one. It was always broccoli’s pale cousin to me, and I wasn’t a big fan of broccoli for a while, either. As I’ve gotten older one thing has become apparent to me in my cooking adventures – there’s just about always a [...]