Since we’re working all day, I don’t have time to plan meals last-minute. I used to get home and look in refrigerator, then try to figure out what to make for dinner. Switching to real food meant some...

Yesterday I brought the bread maker up from out of the basement and dusted it off, looking forward to fresh bread and filling the house with that wonderful aroma. Bread machines take practice because...

I thought of making Italian Cake for Nona but my best one has two cups of sugar and she doesn’t like overly-sweet American desserts. I had two pints of blueberries from a buy-one-get-one sale, and got...

There are still plenty of issues to cover including cooking topics like fermentation and bread starters, and real food issues such as artificial sweeteners, supplements, soy, nightshades, bees...

If you ever saw Bugs Bunny, you know about the long, lacy green tops of carrots that give you a handle to pull them out of the ground (unless the wildlife ate them). I used to compost the greens...

Every day when I get home from work, I check the potato barrel and today there is one little inch-tall plant with purplish-green leaves. It’s very exciting so let’s hope a squirrel doesn’t dig it up...

I found a container of fresh mozzarella in the back of the refrigerator and have no recollection of buying it and it doesn’t match anything on the weekly menu. It was already at its expiration date...

While I was staying late after work, the rest of the family put together a dinner from an old Bon Appetit article about quick and easy dinners. The funny thing is that it’s a slide-show and summarizes...

Last time I reported on carrots I had not come across this 10-year research project that looked at the colors of fruits and vegetables and how their color-associated micronutrients and phytochemicals...

Don’t you just drag into the house exhausted some days and just want to take something out of the refrigerator or freezer and nuke it? Good thing we made gnocchi last weekend! One time when we let my...

It turned out to be particularly ironic that my son volunteered to make a brown rice stir fry today, first because I forgot to point out that the brown rice was in the freezer. When he could only find...

Gnocchi is a versatile little potato dumpling with trademark grooves on one side. Homemade gnocchi is worth the effort once in a while, just like all homemade pasta and dumplings. If you make a double...