On a Sunday night in January, what more could you ask for? I’m such a sucker for baked pasta, and this has everything: tasty meatballs mixed with veggie loaded tomato sauce and pasta, covered with cheese. I actually made this back in November, but I so wish I was having this for dinner tonight. My......

In my ongoing obsession with all things buffalo, I saw this recipe on How Sweet It Is, and made it right away (well a couple of weeks ago, but I’m working through my backlog here). It’s seasonally inappropriate with its lack of vegetables and use of two spots on the stove, plus the oven (hot kitchen!), but......

We all know by now how I feel about the Golden Globes; they are my Superbowl.  Kristine and Nicole were both away for them this year, so I kicked it with Mom & Dad and we had a good time watching together, after we had a chat about not spontaneously changing channels to football during......

I’ve always assumed making risotto is a lengthy process, based on what I’ve seen on the Food Network.  I’ve never made it at home, because it seems kind of intimidating, and I hate wasting time and ingredients on things that don’t turn out.  Nevertheless, I know I need to work on this, so I bought a bag......

My  mouth is watering just thinking about this. I was super excited to hit tomatoes on the re-introduction list. What more is there to say? I think everyone grew up eating some variation of this dinner. In our house, the sauce either came out of a jar or a can (Sorry Mom!) and it was one......

I was talking to Chris on the weekend about this whole Elimination Challenge business. He’s trying to do the same thing and generally clean up his eating, but not in such an extreme way. Although neither of us has read any of Michael Pollan’s books, we could both recite his mantra: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.......

  Is it weird that I only own nine cookbooks? And that four of those are really ‘bake’ books (two Sugar books, Wanda’s Pie in the Sky book and the Baked NYC book)? So when I say that as part of my Elimination Challenge prep, I looked through my cookbooks to find some acceptable (or at least......