 My Favorite Potluck Meal Yes. You heard me right: Potluck. Growing up, I was a picky eater. Thankfully, my kids are not picky, aside from their deep (and recently conquered) fear of Sloppy Joes. However, if you have a picky eater, you will know what a traumatic event the evil potluck dinner can be. You know who you are. [...]  Indian Daal, Naan, Fried Rice… HOMERUN! Well, I finally did it. I spent some TIME and I PLANNED a Meatless Monday meal. And now I know why I didn’t do that before: It takes a lot of time. I blew the whole morning looking at recipes. The whole morning. Part of that might be because I got lost in [...] 
I am a strong advocate of not buying all the kitchen gadgets I believe I want and need for a few reasons: I am a miser Oh for Heaven’s sake. I don’t have the room. And if I don’t have the room, I can not believe how [...]  Ridiculously Simple Miso Soup This is not the Meatless Monday recipe I had planned to share. It is, I admit, a really LAME recipe to share, given it’s simplicity. And the fact that it hardly constitutes a meal. I think many would say, “Why even bother posting Miso Soup?” Well. I’ll tell you why. Warning: Tangental information approaching. I love miso [...]  I was afforded this information at a birthday dinner for my nephew on Saturday night. My brother reads my blog. No matter what I write from this point on, it is sure to be: Misquoted. (I will misquote him) (No, it’s not actually about my mom. I [...]  I sincerely wish I had been chronicling all of my family’s New Years Eve celebrations in Hayward. The fact that I have not, however, isn’t surprising. It’s a madhouse. We’ve been going up to my parent’s place on Round Lake in Hayward between Christmas and New Year’s as long as they have been up there — probably [...]  Ma Po Tofu! My second Meatless Monday venture very nearly echoed my first: it was almost 3pm before I was finished with my “chores.” Yes. I admit it. I was working on this effing puzzle. My mom brought it back from Hayward where we had been working on it over the holidays. Never in all my puzzle-working years [...] 
This is just a quick post for my eye-rolling friends and relatives in retort to all their snide comments about the fact that I use homemade stock for most of my soups. If you haven’t been following along, I will repeat what is, by now, obvious: I delight in making food from garbage. Chicken bones from a [...]  (And a lesson on oiling new, cheap cutting boards) I’m not complaining. I have a great kitchen, and I love it. But there is always room for improvement. For example. My desire was to have countertops with wood or butcherblock. However, my germ-o-phobe husband could think of absolutely nothing worse. His skin crawled at the very idea. It [...] 
I already regret my New Year’s Resolution. I lost track of time, like always. Every January I am struck by a strange and unstoppable compulsion to clean, organize and declutter every closet, shelf, cabinet and drawer. It doesn’t matter what my calendar says or what other promises I have made for the day. I suddenly and inexplicably find [...] |
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