these descriptions actually clear up nothing. first you say that a cafe au lait is made with brewed coffee, then you say that a latte is similar to a cafe au lait in that it is made with a shot of...

really, we’ve all seen bottles that have pears grown inside them? have we?

we call this 'spaghetti pie'. the only thing my grandfather could cook.

or steak tartar?

Sara Kate is going to have your head for recommending a recipe with asparagus in the winter!

my 1-year-old nephew *loves* sauteed greens - spinich, broccoli rabe, chard, you name it! he's a great eater; it makes me really happy!

mschatelaine - yes! you can slice my mom's stuffing, too!

my mother makes the simplest stuffing - i think it's just the giblets, some onion, and bread crumbs, salt and pepper. the key is that she uses bread crumbs so the stuffing kind of forms itself int...

seriously? to waste less food you eat less? that makes no sense. maybe you buy less, or prepare less, but what does eating less have to do with wasting food?

I was just thinking about how I can never keep quinoa from jumping out of the measuring cup and all over the kitchen.

leek and gruyere tart with pruscuitto.

clafoutis

Casa Gonzalez has the creepiest portraits hung all around the hotel. There was one that looked like Hillary Clinton in the room I was supposed to stay in. I left and stayed at the Camino Real in ...

baba ghannouj. can't. do. it.

i like a portugese roll, toasted and then rubbed with a garlic clove, olive oil, tomato, salt pepper. had my first of the season this week!

i agree whole-heartedly with empresscallipygos. this post actually made me feel bad about myself.

i've had basil ice cream, which was delicious, in Panama. and i've seen (but didn't eat) green pea ice cream pops in China. my friend ate one and said it tasted just like peas.

wild salmon

at random

if it was only 6 inches tall, it shouldn't have been too much of a problem :)