Posts Tagged ‘cooking’

Fresh Tofu, Right Off the Farm

This sounds more serious than it actually is, but I just ran out of tofu. For years I’ve bought the stuff, meaning to incorporate it into our eating lifestyle, and I have: we’ve eaten chocolate tofu pudding (silken tofu pulverized in a blender with sugar and cocoa); tofu scrambled eggs (soft tofu mashed with spices [...]

The Issue of Choice

A teacher friend of ours raised his children with the concept of choices, as in, “That was a bad choice, son.” “Do you think that was a good choice?” “What were you thinking when you made that choice?” He always sounded so patient, but I’m sure that, when outsiders weren’t around, the questions may have sounded [...]

Book Review: Quick and Easy Thai

My favorite Thai restaurant is 80 miles away, which means that I don’t do take out, but I dream about it a lot. Now that I’ve discovered Quick and Easy Thai by Nancie McDermott, however, my dreams have come true and my prince has come in and all that, and rather than wait for the [...]

Easy Dinner Idea: Teach a Teen to Cook

The most delightful thing is happening in the kitchen: one of the progeny is making lunch. Now just how delightful this is depends upon which progeny: College Girl cooks like the tornado that killed the Wicked Witch in the West, and the counters wind up so cluttered with dish detritus that the woman’s green body [...]

Jiminy Crock Pot! Hot Food for Dinner!

This last month I discovered the existence of the crock pot. No, not crack pots. Very funny. I’m talking about the slow cooker, which, theoretically one fills with goodies at the beginning of the day, plugs in, and walks away while the veggies and the meatsies burble away until evening, when one wanders back in, [...]

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