Well already this year is flying by.  I had great plans for this month, for the blog, and for life in general.  Unfortunately I seem to have caught the cold-from-hell, which threw all my plans cockeyed.  Two weeks of coughing, congestion, sinus issues so bad they made my teeth ache … and not much got [...]

It’s 14 degrees right now in my part of Atlanta.  That’s just a little cold, right?  So to warm myself up, I’ve been dreaming of the farmer’s market and all the wonderful fresh fruits and veg that I’ll be enjoying in a few months.  And then I remembered a trip I made last summer to [...]

One of the things I hope to do with this blog is share some of my favorite things with people – and to explain why they are my favorite things.  I haven’t quite figured out what to call these posts.  Raves?  Faves?  What phrase hasn’t been done to death yet? Anyway, this is the first [...]

After yesterday’s pantry cleaning extravaganza, I realized that I have tons of lentils, so I went searching for a recipe that was something different from the lentils/onions/tomato/carrot soupish-sort-of-thing that I’ve done to death.  I found a yummy looking lentil and mushroom soup online, which I tweaked (quite a lot actually).  What I came up with [...]

I know I’m a tad behind on this one, but I figured I’d post this meme that the Very Good Taste blog posted back in August of (wait for it) last year.  It’s a nice step into 2009 to get Kara Cooks off on the right foot. Here are the instructions: 1) Copy this list [...]