Monthly Archives: January 2007

I heart cookies. I heart you!

01/29/2007 | Topic: dessert, food., holidays

I really think food speaks volumes both about us and our lives, and the people in our lives.When a friend is sick: you bring food. When you are sick: you eat homemade chicken soup. When you are really sick: you are sad you cannot eat food. When you are sad:… [more]

Nuts about Nuts

01/24/2007 | Topic: food., snacks, starters

Does it get any better? Martha’s January 2007 magazine put my salivary glands in motion with this dessert in her pull-out meal section. I love the idea of serving it with Port at the end of the meal… except even more I… [more]

On Top of Spaghetti

01/21/2007 | Topic: default dinners, entree, food.

On top of Spaghetti
All covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed It rolled off the table
And onto the floor
And then my poor meatball
Rolled out of the door It rolled in the garden
And under… [more]

Roasted Vegetables: Spicy Sweet Potatoes

01/18/2007 | Topic: food., starch, vegetables

Foodies have their obsessions: foods they are prisoner to, enchanted with and cannot stray from… though I doubt any of us try. Clotilda from Chocolate & Zucchini loves, well, chocolate and zucchini. Deb over at Smitten Kitchen has a ‘thing’ for [more]

Malabar Hanger Steak & Ginger Carrot Puree

01/11/2007 | Topic: default dinners, entree, food., vegetables

This is not my own, this recipe evokes a family-wide bow to Food & Wine. In their January 2007 magazine, Food & Wine delivered this easy to make, family-friendly dish. Perhaps their intent was restaurant fare, as a famous chef (Bruce… [more]

Italian layered dish

01/07/2007 | Topic: default dinners, entree, food., Italian food

I cannot call this a casserole. I grew up eating casseroles, subject to that generation of mothers who cooked with Campbells cans of soup, found Tupperware to be the rage and added crushed Ritz crackers or canned, fried onions to the top of—you guessed it—casseroles. (But I love you… [more]

I could eat a Goose Moose Burger

01/04/2007 | Topic: entree, food.

Never has a childhood ditty rung so true as the last week of 2006, when my family and I vacationed in a poetic, snowy cabin in the woods. Tucked in the forests of Montana, this quaint cabin offered a small bit of respite, a pile of snow-filled memories and… [more]

coveted, frosted sugar cookies

01/01/2007 | Topic: dessert, edible gifts, food., holidays

I have hidden, sneaked, stuffed and murmured this recipe. I have not shared it. In fact, to this day I recall being asked for it and conveniently ‘forgetting’ the request. It is so good, such a shoo-in for hitting hero-like status—that one does not want to share the spotlight.… [more]