Cooking with ghee When looking for healthy fats to cook with my favorite choices are olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, butter, and ghee. I really like using ghee because it has a wonderful sweet flavor and it’s easy to use. Originating in India, ghee is simply clarified butter. In other words, butter that has […]
Continue ReadingI recently had a wonderful sandwich made with a soft cheese and raw chayote squash on a crusty french bread. The crisp fresh flavor of the chayote complimented the soft cheese and gave the sandwich a wonderful consistency.Chayote (pronounced chai-oh-tee) is a member of the curcurbitaceae family, which also includes melons, cucumbers, and squash. Sometimes […]
Continue ReadingRecently a few people have asked me what magazines I read to stay on top of food news and holistic living. With lots of different magazines out there it’s difficult to subscribe to too many of them yet everyone wants good information. Here are a few of my favorites, I think you’ll like them too: […]
Continue ReadingI’m so excited because there is a new crop of baby praying mantis in our neighborhood. The kids across the street were lucky enough to get a praying mantis egg casing. It just hatched revealing an enormous number of babies from the case. The kids let the mantises go in the garden and I’m hoping […]
Continue ReadingI have a confession to make. I don’t much like okra. Maybe it’s from growing up in the northeast where I was not really exposed to it much as a child. Whatever the reason I mostly find it unappealing. I have discovered that I can tolerate it steamed, I despise it cooked, boiled, or fried. […]
Continue ReadingJen wrote in with a comment and a couple of questions: “A friend shared a recipe with me for rainbow pancakes. It was pretty horrifying with tons of artificial colors. I am disappointed how my son’s class is drawn to the colors when choosing food at the class parties.” I agree, rainbow pancakes would be […]
Continue ReadingWalking around the fairgrounds at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo all my senses are assaulted; the flashing lights, the booming pounding music, the loud chatter of the crowds, and the smells of fairground food. Fried food, smoked food, barbeque, spun sugar, all swell around me creating an almost hypnotic state. As I look […]
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Today’s blog entry is a guest post written by my Aunt Carol (and yes that’s capitolized because I think she’s “just capital”). She’d sent these musings to me as an email but I loved it so much I wanted to share her thoughts with all of you. With her permission here they are: Your article […]
Continue ReadingSusan asked, “I wondered if you might have a resource for homemade wheat rolls (or other dinner-y kind of breads) that could be made up to a certain point and then frozen. So that you could make up a whole bunch when you have time, and then just cook a few at a time when […]
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Although I am a fan of leftovers others in the house are less excited by the repetition of certain dishes. Being a big fan of not wasting food, and a new fan of Jonathan Bloom’s blog Wasted Food I try to look for creative ways to repackage if you will, the offerings at the dinner […]
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