fat free opinions on a food centric life
We see them all the time — those recipes on the back of boxes in our pantry, or the inside of a chocolate wrapper, or an herb package label. Do you ever try them? I do, but it depends on what they are. Like the …
The dog days of summer are definitely here. No, there’s no heat coming from Sirius, the Dog Star, as the ancients believed, but it does mean quite a bit more. To me, it’s about more than heat and humidity, especially since the average temperature here …
For the last two years, we’ve been experimenting with roasting meat on our barbeque. You know, roasting it as in it could have been in our oven roasting type roasting. And there are some who would argue that because we have a gas grill, that’s …
I have a tendency to skip the sections in food magazines like “Quick Kitchen” in Gourmet, or “Too Busy to Cook” in Bon Appetit. I look at the photos, am sometimes mildly curious, then realize there’s nothing to do. What is that? Do I long …
Although I’m a fairly exploratory cook, rarely hesitating to try something new and different, I understand that this is a very relative thing, with some considering leaving the pieces of chopped onion in their marinara a bold step. That would not be what I’m referring …