Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It can be fun to dress up humble smashed potatoes; the fun only increases if it is for a festive affair. To be totally Frank—or Patrick for today’s namesake—the reason I like these green smashers is because, well, they are better for you than when they aren’t green.The peas in this […]

I may have a problem. I just cannot help myself, I just find salt so intriguing. Have you seen it? All the different types and varieties from exotic locations around the world? A wide range of specialty salts are showing up all over the place: red salt from Hawaii, black salt, Tuscan salt… and what […]

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 artichokes. And if you are thoroughly enthralled with a particular food or food genre: […]

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 Sherman: Food & Wine Best New Chef 2003) delivered this most impressive concoction. But […]

Lemony Green Beans are the perfect blend of citrus, olive oil and kosher salt. When I named them Lemony Green Beans all I could think of was Lemony Snicket, a children’s series that my son read some time ago. It is actually a bit ‘dark’ and tragic—not for all kids. These beans are far from […]