$80 is steep, but I am teaching a little one to cook and OH WOULD SHE LOVE THOSE! I'm happy to hear someone took them to college because it provides a handy spending rationalization for giving a 3 ...

These spots below department stores are a great place to get gifts for your hosts, but PRICEY. If you want to score some snacks for the hotel, some of the larger subway stations have grocery stores...

Risi e bisi. Bought a huge pile of shelling peas at the market. My 3 1/2 year old is becoming an ace sheller. I've got some very long stalks of rhubard to use up, too. I am inspired b...

Kryptonite. Pure Kryptonite.

I did way, way more camping as a kid than anyone ever should. My mom always packed a couple of cans of vegetable soup for the first night on the well-founded assumption that we might get to camp mu...

I am definitely going to try the quiche crust and popcorn tricks. Thanks! My "secret ingredient" use for tumeric is in vegetable broths. When you want a richer-flavored vegetarian broth, start by s...

An important thing to keep in mind that while you may hate a particular food prepared a certain way (boiled Brussels sprouts) you may LOVE that same food prepared differently (roasted Brussels spro...

Ratatouille, when all the ingredients are from the farmers market. I make vast batches of it.

I second the mashed avocado on toast.

Strawberry jam! It's raining again, so that will be the afternoon project with my little girl. The morning project was going to the farmers market to get the berries. I'm also making a...

As the house cook, I keep a seasonal list of what my husband and child like to eat. Cuts down on frustration, especially when I see the same items on both lists.

Is it something like mugicha? That is my favorite, favorite summer drink. It's Japanese barley iced tea. It's dark brown, though.

Rose jelly is a nice glaze for a fruit salad. Warm up a little to make it spread farther and gently stir it in. I bet lavender would work, too. It would be great with a combo of blueberries and wat...

Oh man that soup looks good this rainy morning.

Another reluctant tosser happy to pop them in the freezer. I always felt bad chucking them, because they are useful if you've got an immediate use for them! Do you have to let them defrost or do yo...

Them's thin, thin, arguments you've got there. American Cheese is the reason I refused to eat cheese for my entire youth, only relenting and trying a teensy-weensy bit when I actually...

I like avocado on mine to stick it all together. The one drawback of a crispy veg sandwich like this is its tendency to fall apart. I have to have radishes on mine, and I prefer picked red onion to...

I have a lonely can of sweetened condensed milk in my pantry. So that means I really should make these, in the interest of, you know, using stuff up. Oh RIGHT, I'm trying to lose 2 po...

Here's a great website, in English, by an expatriate Japanese woman living in Europe (so she's dealing with not always being able to get her hands on Japanese ingredients):

Just in from our weekly picnic in the park with my daughter and her little friends. I made that jam crostata using the rhubarb jam left over from trying the rhubarb syrup--very good! And surprising...