The goal is to get you hooked. ~David Kessler, MD (1951 – ) The End to Overeating (2009) MOTHER’S DAY MENU FIRST THINGS FIRST Today’s menu is for Mother’s Day. Wow the petticoat off Mom with a flashy exhibit of your cooking skills with two things that most people haven’t even tried: salt-crust cooking and [...]
Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you. ~Anonymous Author TODAY’S PREPARATION SIX WORD SATURDAY Back for another six-word weekend meme, brought to you by Cate at Show My Face. Where did the week slip off to? I get riled when people say that they can eat at a fast food restaurant [...]
What you eat for lunch today is what you pack in your lunchbox. No more, no less. ENTHUSIASM FOR FOOD It took an Englishman to hold up the mirror to Americans to gaze, unfettered, at their relentless eating habits in the cold light of a typical Huntington, West Virginia day. In case you missed it, [...]
I love a man with dishpan hands. ~Pat Doornbos (1941-) & Marlene Fowler (1932-) CLEANING UP IS EASY TO DO Women have dishpan hands, but we’re hoping that no one notices. The reason why we like the above quote is because we don’t want to be all alone in there, cleaning up after having cooked [...]
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” ~AA Milne character Winnie the Pooh TODAY’S PREPARATION A SIMPLE LUNCH FIT FOR THE GODS There is no end to the foods that can be combined for lunchtime. Focusing on the easy [...]
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. ~Adelle Davis (1904-1974) TODAY’S PREPARATION DAILY COMMITMENT TO FEEDING ONESELF I’m just one woman who has been cooking her way through life. If I can teach you to appreciate real food and some of its complexities and comforts, I will be [...]
Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who, on ascending the throne, issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor’s Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any [...]
TODAY’S PREPARATION You know how I feel about tacos. It’s the only food shaped like a smile. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel & Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, 2006 episode FUN & EASY! Now that you have some leftover chicken in the refrigerator (from yesterday’s soup) waiting for something interesting, try tacos. Or, forgo the chicken and [...]
TODAY’S PREPARATION Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? [...]
TODAY’S PREPARATION NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION SOLUTION Stop Blogging And Cook is for humans looking for an alternative to take-out, fast, frozen and artificial food products. Even those who have NEVER cooked anything in their lives. We’ll ease into it, over the course of the year, slow and steady. Three hundred sixty-five days / 365 ways [...]