With the help of a little push from a friend, I’ve decided to take the October Unprocessed Food Challenge from the folks at Eating Rules. The Unprocessed rules are pretty simple and straightforward – if you can’t make it in your kitchen from whole ingredients, then you can’t eat it. It sounds a bit rough, [...]

What a year it’s been! Not to be a complete cliche, but 2010 was a year of ups and downs, highs and lows, starts, stalls, and stops, and much craziness, both personally and professionally. Now that it’s nearly the end of the year, I’m a little introspective … and a lot ready to make plans [...]

No links today … just a wish for Happy Holidays from my home to yours. I’ll be back after Jan 1st. PS – The Christmas Eve prime rib was wonderful – thanks to Steamy Kitchen’s prime rib recipe!

Before I get to the links, I just want to share my new favorite kitchen item … my Shun Classic 4-Inch Paring Knife! Isn’t it beautiful? And let me tell you – it amazingly sharp. I sliced a linen kitchen towel drying it off. Yes, it’s that sharp.  Now I’m jonesing for the 10-Inch Chef’s [...]

So this isn’t technically a gadget or utensil, but I figure it sort of qualifies as things I use a lot! One of the things I get asked pretty frequently is what I keep in my pantry on a regular basis to make planning easier. So here’s a list of what I try to have [...]

The photo below is another random one – from a batch of grilled pizza we made last week. Doesn’t it look yummy? Ok, on with the next installment of my Monday morning links. I’m really enjoying this, to be honest. As I read through food blogs during the week, it’s fun to look at them [...]

Happy Monday, everyone! First of all, just to let you know that the image of baby spinach, below, has nothing to do with the rest of this post. It’s just a picture I like and I figure every blog post on a food blog needs to have at least one picture. I’m going to start [...]

Wow it’s been a long time since I’ve had a Saturday farmer’s market post.  Let’s just jump right back into it.  Here’s what I picked up at today’s market. I also picked up some goat cheese from a local dairy – Cole’s Lake Diary. (They don’t have a website, unfortunately, but there’s more information about [...]