We're all good enough to be great cooks
French Food and Lentil Soup Being French, my husband knows a lot about good food. Even today, my mother-in-law is an amazing cook who sometimes spends days preparing one dish. No pressure there. This also means, however, that he sometimes requests things that sound less …
Saving Money with Homemade Beef with Broccoli There is a super good Chinese restaurant in my town. Their food is absolutely delicious. The best way I can describe it is, “clean.” Do you know what I’m going for here? Not oily. Crisp, fresh. Also? Very …
Beyond Healthy-ish: Mediterranean Salad I usually think of myself as a healthy-ish eater. We don’t eat out often, don’t eat fast food, and don’t eat prepared foods. We eat multiple fruits and vegetables over the course of the day. Sounds pretty good, right? That’s what …
Summer Produce: Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes The end of summer – and my vacation – is rapidly approaching. I can’t believe I am already going back to school on Monday! One thing that isn’t ending, though, is a supply of farm fresh produce. Yesterday a …
Light Summer Eating: Chilled Zucchini Soup From the looks of the weather around the world, it has been hot where you are. I don’t know how you feel about this, but I hate it. I have the fairest of complexions and I’m not much of …
Fake Takeout: Shrimp Fried Rice I don’t like to go out. If the pandemic taught me anything, it’s just how much I love staying home. While other people were discovering cooking and baking and crafts like they had just been invented, I was able to …
Cooking Sort of Italian with an Italian Skillet Dinner Have we ever discussed how I found out I am part Italian? I can’t remember. My dad, retired and bored, decided to look into our background. His parents were pretty easy. Almost everyone in his family …
Is it a Pizza or a Quesadilla? It’s a Mexican Pizza Quesadilla! Can something be both a pizza and a quesadilla at the same time? It is, of course, a deep philosophical question, one for the ages. And yes, I have decided – because I …
Baked Feta Pasta – Without the TikTok I love feta cheese and tomatoes and red onions, so making this baked feta pasta seemed like a no-brainer. Apparently it was a thing on TikTok? The only thing I know about TikTok is that it has influenced …
My New Takeout Fakeout: Honey Sesame Chicken My husband and I aren’t super big into eating out. We’re pretty conservative with the way we spend money (that’s a polite way of saying sort of cheap), so extra things, like restaurants and ordering in aren’t really …
