Homemade Sauerkraut: A Journey and a Recipe

I have been fascinated lately by probiotics. They are so very important to overall health and I can’t seem to get enough of them. I hate spending $10 on the really good, fresh, organic kimchi and sauerkraut when I’ve been eating some with every meal. It breaks the budget. I began looking into my own […]

Kitchen Gadget Series: Citrus Squeezer

I have a little hand citrus squeezer that is fine to use for one or two limes/lemons, yet I tend to buy a bunch of citrus and squeeze it into juice to fill a container for easy use during the week. When I have to process a dozen or so fruits, I pull my big, […]

Autumn Curry

I love going to my local Farmer’s Markets! There is something about seeing, smelling, and touching all the foods of the season — freshly picked and brought to this festival of the senses — that really grounds me in the present. For this moment, and this moment alone, this particular vegetable is at its peak. […]

Proof That Spring Food is Here: Strawberry Shortcake!

We had guests over last night so I whipped up some strawberry shortcake to serve. We had bought some early season strawberries the day before, then I made a pecan scone as the base. I topped it with freshly whipped cream. Delish. Nothing says that spring has arrived better than early strawberries. The strawberry plants […]

Mega Salad Stomps Tokyo, Athens, and Rome!

“Look! There! Rising from the deep! It’s an atavistic giant come to stomp our beloved city! Arghhhhh!”

Imagine that being heard in Japanese, Greek, and Italian. Also imagine that said beast is collecting elements for dinner from these places rather than causing massive property damage.

Godzilla sidles up to the local grocer, “Pardon me. […]