Whipped Out

Like Angie, I usually do a weekly menu, but I don’t assign nights for the different meals, partly because our evenings are almost always in flux, since I don’t know when Hubby is going to come home, and partly because I might not be in the mood for whatever I assigned. I love it when [...]

Back in July, Angie, Jane and I went to a restaurant in DC called Hook. Angie, damn her, introduced me to the lemon drop martini. I’m not a big martini drinker though I learned to make them when I was around 11 or 12, since both my grandmothers drank them. One liked them with vermouth [...]

You’ve already seen examples of Jane’s sewing prowess here on the blog, but I’m going to show you another. Early last December I was bemoaning on Twitter that I needed a new passport holder. I travel to Canada once a month and though I do have a passport holder, I wanted a wallet, because Canada [...]

Last week I mentioned one of my favorite cookbooks, “Saved By Soup,” which I keep for exactly one recipe: Red Bean and Barley Soup.
In addition, this recipe is the single reason I own a immersion blender. It’s kind of ridiculous, but I make this soup a LOT in the winter. It’s very easy, I can [...]

I have a ton of cookbooks. Literally dozens, some of which I keep for only one recipe. An entire kitchen cabinet in my home is full of nothing but cookbooks. At some point, it’ll be time for me to weed them out, scan the pages I use and donate the books themselves.
Because I’m feeling kinda [...]

Every year, I make these cookies for Hubby. They’re labor-intensive and include putting the cookie dough in the fridge not once but twice, plus boiling water and grating ginger and whacking the crap out of some chocolate and yet they are so freaking good it’s worth it all. And he loves them. So some [...]

It’s Hanukkah, the Festival of Light, and Fried Foods. No, really. One of the ways in which Jewish folks commemorate Hanukkah is to eat foods fried in oil, like sufganiyot (jelly-filled donuts) and latkes (potato pancakes). Only one problem with that for me: I really, really don’t like latkes. Latkes made the traditional way with [...]

Lately on Saturdays I’ve been trying to make one massive recipe in the slow cooker so that (a) we have awesome smells in the house all day and (b) we have leftovers for meals during the week. This week, I’m trying a free recipe from Cooks Illustrated for Hearty Tuscan Bean Stew. Cook’s Illustrated recipes [...]