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.......

Do you have certain dishes that you make so regularly, you just assume everyone else eats them all the time too? That’s how I ended up in Lydia & Andrew’s kitchen last summer teaching them how to make Sweet Pototo Wedges.  Lydia claimed that she couldn’t make them. Um, huh?  Scrub, slice, toss, bake! That’s it! But......

I’ve been eating a lot more veggies on this Elimination Challenge, some new for me and some I just don’t eat all that often. I have nothing against acorn squash, it’s just that when I’ve made it in the past, it’s been doused in butter, brown sugar and rosemary. Mmmm. I had seen this recipe......

When I was strawberry picking at The Ridge last summer (a story for a separate Retro-Blog post, no doubt), Alexis’ Mother-in-law made us an amazing vegetarian dinner. Aletta is so thoughtful, she had a stack of Alexis’ old Vegetarian Times magazines, and had picked out Caponata Stew and Hummus Cakes to make. There was also homemade bread, apricot chutney, homemade......

  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......

Updated with a new picture November 2, 2014 Here’s my first Elimination Challenge Dinner! I have wanted to try this for the longest time, after Nicole made it and raved about it last year. I was able to make the recipe as is, without any substitutions, and it was absolutely amazing. You roast diced butternut......