I got sidetracked with the pretzel trout recipe yesterday and forgot to tell you about the second Lodge restaurant. I get to treat my team at work to a holiday lunch each December and yesterday we...

In food news last month, a Dallas restaurant critic who previously only presented herself as an avatar, outed herself and may regret it since now restaurants know who to Not serve. The critic is...

My Grandma Breza called this bread roll “kalacz” (ka-loch), which means cake; this is a less sweet, eastern European version of a coffee cake. You can roll it with either a nut or poppy seed filling...

Sometimes when you need a quick dinner and have eggs, you can either go for the fallback of breakfast for dinner, or spruce them up in a new egg recipe. I bought two tomatillos recently because...

One night when we were walking back from our cluster mailboxes – we do not get door to door mail service here (kind of un-American isn’t it?) – we ducked in to Vintage to have a small bite at the bar...

Happy Leftover Friday! Today is a great day for leftovers for anyone who hosted a big dinner yesterday; in some cases they’re even better the next day. A common theme for articles in cooking magazines...

Happy Thanksgiving! Every day it is good to feel gratitude for what we have. Not only does it feel good in the moment, but it changes the energy level around you and after a while it is a permanent...

I need to take a green vegetable for Thanksgiving, and I don’t feel like taking beans. The farm market I went to was out of Brussels sprouts so I settled for kale. I bought the two largest bags of...

Today it warmed up enough to go out in the back yard and do a few things, like make the kids rake the leaves . I brought in sticks and wood for the fireplace, turned some compost, and assessed what...

Last summer my son spent a couple of weeks at an overnight camp that had a Parents’ Day — I told you a little about it back in July. We headed out there one Saturday for a potluck; I think we...

At the one-year-old’s birthday party that I went to this summer, the mom made a cold carrot soup to go with chicken salad sandwiches. I’ve been meaning to make it for a while, although I’d like the...

It’s no surprise that spinach is a super food due to its rich dark green leaves. Previously I talked about the calcium and vitamin content, and Popeye loved it for its iron. Besides being a good...