Cuddle up with a creamy, flavorful bowl of whole grain hot cereal that’s is nutritious, filling, and cheaper than store-bought. This recipe will make enough dry mix for a week’s worth of hot breakfast to kick-start our winter detox because, you know, too many cookies. Millet, oat bran, amaranth, stone-ground cornmeal, old-fashioned rolled oats, and Himalayan pink salt is…
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A beloved, old-fashioned boarding school recipe. The magic is in the cinnamon shortbread-like crisp topping juxtaposed with the soft, applesauce-like fruit. We had apple crisp every Thursday in boarding school. 132 bowls of crisp later, I’m still not tired of it. Back then, plotting which seat at my assigned dining table would…
I try to use fresh tomatoes as much as possible in place of canned tomatoes because the acidity in tomatoes leaches BPA out of the lining of most cans. The trouble with using fresh tomatoes is that they’re watery as heck, until I discovered that roasting them oven-dries them, concentrates their flavor, and makes the skins peel…
Liz has a strange affliction: a voracious appetite for lemons coupled with the complete inability to taste them anymore. I watched her pour equal parts water and lemon juice into a tall glass on Sunday and chug it. “It’s just water,” she shrugged. When we made lemon raspberry buttercream for our macarons last month, we dumped in…
Last night: I left work early to meet Liz at a bar. After a 10 hour work day, all I could think about was my couch and a pint of ice cream. But I pulled it together and put on my heels. When I got to the bar, I was…