HOME– How should we officially wrap up our fourth issue? Should we wax nostalgic for the comfort foods and the lighter, coupon-clipped grocery hauls that sustained us through a winter of job losses and tightened budgets? I won’t lie: I’m overly fond of expensive cuts of meat and exotic cheeses. I live to splurge on [...]
HOME– I am a creature of habit. Each weekday, I start my morning with a bowl of bran cereal topped with skim milk, wheat germ, and a handful of frozen sweet black cherries. All of this is accompanied by no less than two cups of strong, piping-hot coffee. Coffee wakes my brain up; frozen cherries [...]
HOME– The beatific beet, with its mellow notes, blazing fuchsia roots, fork-tender texture, and nutritional jolts of folic acid, potassium, calcium and antioxidants, is too often overlooked on the vegetable aisle. Without attached instructions, a leafy bunch of beet roots seems daunting in its simplicity. But in truth, baking beets is as easy as baking [...]
EXTRA! EXTRA! — It’s Sow Time! It’s time to get those seeds into their pellets or pots. This year, we’re growing herbs, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, beans, eggplants, carrots, shallots, peas, lettuce, potatoes, and some unidentifiable sprouts. Join in the backyard farming revelry! Run thee to thou local seedery and buy those little bags of [...]
HOME– Our friend, Terry Hufstetler, is the man you must have at your dinner party. He’s one of those rare storytellers who can transform a roomful of sober adults into a round table of laughing friends eager for the next punchline. Each tale is followed by one larger and more animated than the previous. And [...]
EXTRA! EXTRA! — This is the first installment of a regular feature– an Extra! Extra! collection of foodie tidbits, articles, tips and facts pulled from other blogs, sites, magazines and food shows. Or… {AHEM} non-related food items. Meet my two new friends and backyard neighbors, Cocoa and Snowball. They moved in a couple of weeks [...]
HOME– Crêpes are one of those mythical culinary creations that no one actually cooks at home. They are elitist, French concoctions, too difficult to master and too fussy for a weeknight meal or a weekend breakfast. Don’t you just love a bad reputation for a good culinary challenge? Of course, crêpes are incredibly simple to [...]
HOME–I’m spending more and more time in my kitchen office these days. Less contracting work at large companies means more freelancing from home for small companies. At first it was a bit frightening, losing my story, my purpose, my destination. It was most certainly a downturn. But now that I’m in the middle of this [...]
HOME– “Oh what a beautiful morning!” I awoke to the sweetest, softest snowfall outside my window. In the slow roll of another predictable South Carolina winter, this was somewhat of a miracle. It’s true that some Southerners may have thought, given the evidence, that Hell was finally freezing over; the truth is, today was a [...]
HOME– Winter Salads have to be so much more inventive than summer salads. Since the typical garden variety of vegetables isn’t to be found, citrus is a bright and sunny stand-in. I plucked a gorgeous head of red leaf lettuce out of the garden today and combined it with a couple of homegrown grapefruit that [...]
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