My fav way to eat lentils lately, especially the de Puy green lentils is simmer them for 15-20 min. In the meantime, saute onion, carrot, and fennel (if it's around) in olive oil. Toss drained lent...

Oddly enough, one of the current CVS coupons you get with your CVS card is $2 off their brand of nuts. Yesterday I got a whole pound of plain almonds for $3.99--much cheaper than the health food st...

I've had this before--it is comforting! Also, like marguerite, I've often had leftover cornbread and milk. My grandfather said that when he was growing up, cornbread and clabber milk, ...

Savory Corn Bread Pudding, from Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. But basically, make a bread pudding egg mixture without sugar and add in things instead like chopped cilantro, cor...

My mom sautes them in butter, sprinkles with salt, pepper, and a pinch of sugar, and then deglazes the pan with Marsala. This is so good!

So frustrating to hear this news. We don't eat a lot of canned goods, but we certainly eat some. Trader Joe's does sell tomatoes in the cardboard box (juice-box) type container, which is often a wa...

@marmite: please do! My favs are: -butternut squash soup (you know--something with either apple, curry powder, other warming spices) garnished with a dallop of yogurt and some snipped chives...

Pan-fried country or city ham with canned hominy is a typical Southern dish in KY. But my fav (esp. since I'm veg) is something similar to what Ingolia mentions: a kind of Southwestern...

Shots of hot soup in fall/winter or cold soup in spring/summer. Then I go back around with the tray and whisk everyone's shot or teacup away so they can move on to the room temp. table apps....

I agree with Bushidoka, the old Osterizers are awesome, and the new ones stink (including the Beehive, which Cooks Illustrated once suggested--I've blown out my motor already).... My m...

Haha. I used to sit on my friend's rooftop as a child in KY and we used to launch these onto the pavement to make fun "splats". If only we'd known to sit around munching them instead....

Love, love, love Google books for research.

Roasted with balsamic! Mashed into horseradish mashed potatoes. With red lentils and lots of coriander and Indian spices in soup. Pureed. Add lime juice and coconut milk i...

@apointe: I know a lot of people who like the Sh-mop. It basically is a metal pole with a rectangle that has a bunch of terrycloth or microfiber covers that are great at picking up dust. It also ha...

Made this the other night with a cabbage salad with a raisin vinaigrette and pintos and tortillas. Delicious and easy, but definitely needed quite a bit of vinegar to come together. @s...

I have to say, I find them so expensive and labor intensive to deal with that I rarely cook them--except for the frozen artichokes from Trader Joes'! Those are affordable and great to toss into pas...

In my experience, restaurant polenta usually tastes so delicious because they put cream or half and half in along with lots of cheese--it's so luscious. But not something I would do in my own home ...

Oooo. I like this idea! Down South I've seen quite a few caterers do grits bars, which kind of builds on the same idea. Start with garlic cheese grits in a pretty copper pot, add martini glasses, b...

Not worth the stress in my opinion! But it's incredible--one of my favorite things. I almost made myself week eating it all the time when I studied in Morocco. Rosewater and almond is my fav.

Yes, I'm liking the ginger cocktails. Lemongrass syrup, grated ginger, lime juice, and vodka. Yum!