I never thought I’d be the kind of person who reads cookbooks.  Reads them for pleasure, I mean, not for recipe-gathering.  I’ve always been a fiction sort of person – anyone who knows me can tell you that I’m a huge science fiction and fantasy fan (space opera is one of my secret vices).  But [...]

I was going to make Jamie Oliver’s roast chicken. I really was. It looks really, really good, and I’m dying to try it. And we all know how much Don loves his potatoes. But it was Tuesday. And I’ve got a million proposals due at work, and lots of [...]

To my low-fat gourmet mother’s sheer horror and Don’s giddy delight, I made Ree’s pot roast a couple of weeks ago. I’d seen her post on my RSS feeder, and through some trick of fate happened to find a nice chuck roast on sale virtually the very next day. Amazing! Oddly, [...]

My mom got me this gorgeous blue food processor for Christmas last year. My cooking has been so sparse that I haven’t ever used it, until now. I made the New York Times macaroni and cheese that Deb from Smitten Kitchen featured about a year and a half ago; it’s utterly fantastic. [...]

I use chicken in a lot of things.  It’s the one meat we really eat consistently; we don’t eat a lot of red meat at all, pork makes me sick, fish is unappealing most of the time, and shellfish is often too expensive.  But chicken!  Oh, chicken.  I buy chicken in bulk.  And one of [...]

Don had some free time while he was waiting for our new dumpster to be delivered yesterday, so he decided (for some reason) to run some statistics on our food spending for the last few years. I know, he’s kind of a dork. Who spends their free time staring at numbers? [...]

Lemonade and pomegranate juice. I picked up a wee bottle of pomegranate juice, thinking that we’d use it to mix into drinks occasionally, since we’ve finally broken out our liquor stash and begun having a cocktail now and again. Don tried it and immediately loved it — I’m pretty sure he’s been sneaking [...]

The meal I remember most vividly from my childhood is the one I turn to when I want something fast and simple. It’s always on nights when I’m fending for myself for dinner — Don won’t eat it, the more fool he. Egg noodles with sour cream and cottage cheese were just called [...]

My new light box came in the mail on Friday.  It’s keen!  It folds up into a wee little pouch, and comes with four different colored backgrounds that velcro into it.  It’s actually kind of bigger than I expected it to be, but I’m not really complaining.  I picked up a couple of five dollar [...]

I went to the grocery store.  Yes, I cleaned first — that was last night’s project, and since It Is Forbidden that one cook AND clean on the same night, we got subs from John’s, which is right up the street and has the best subs EVER.  Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.  Cleaning accomplished, [...]