The blueberries are all gone for this year at the blueberry farm but I had an idea to add some of the frozen ones to a pear clafoutis from the book On Rue Tatin that I reviewed last month. A...

The first time I had an avocado I was in my 30s and a friend in Ann Arbor put chopped avocado on a grilled chicken salad. It was amazing. After that I found out about guacamole, which is even more...

Here’s another Hungarian comfort food. I buy lamb chunks and trim off the fat, or get a lamb shoulder and cut it into small pieces. You can substitute something else, although you don’t need to use...

A new food rating and comparison website launched today — Food Scores by the Environmental Working Group. You simply type in a food, for example you could enter “Frozen Sweet Potato Fries,” and...

Today we had visitors from New York that were in town for their granddaughter’s baptism. Luckily the mass wasn’t until 11:00 so they were able to have a nice, leisurely breakfast. Once in a while I...

The first time we went to the grass-fed beef farm, I innocently asked the cattle farmer if there was a chicken farm nearby. He said disgustedly, “I don’t even talk about chickens.” Next time I’ll ask...

  The kids didn’t have school again for yet another non-reason, so my daughter pulled out my tomato plants for me in exchange for me taking her to get her Homecoming dress. There were a couple of...

Usually I cut acorn squash in half and use the halves as cooking bowls, which I’ll do some other time. I got this recipe idea in my email from Real Simple and I thought I’d give it a try, even though...

It’s really fun to make spaghetti squash because it’s so amazing how spaghetti-ish it is inside the squash! It’s really a fun ingredient to cook with and the easiest thing to do with it is to dig out...

One time I had some great Brussels sprouts at a restaurant, I don’t remember the name of it but it was a tapas place — where you order over-priced, appetizer-size portions of a wide variety of...

Walking through the backyard the other day I suddenly realized the broccoli raab (rob) my daughter planted a few weeks ago is starting to go to seed/flower. I looked back in the blog to see what day I...

Blueberries get their color from the flavonoid class called anthocyanins. They contain 15 different types of these anthocyanins which are powerful antioxidants that are as strong in your frozen...