My favorite way to eat beef is to NOT eat beef. Ick. Meat/Un-Meat month is sure favoring the meat-eaters. . .perhaps I should check back in April.

While I really like the look of the hanging wire baskets, ideally both garlic and onions should be stored in the dark (as should potatoes) so I definitely wouldn't keep them right there next to all...

As far as storing stock (to answer marisab's question above), I use wide-mouth mason jars. They're freezer safe (only the wide-mouth ones though -- there's a little snowflake on the package), fit ...

Extremely cool but ridiculously expensive.

I like the idea of collecting the signed labels in some sort of scrapbook (a moleskin would work perfectly) and then discarding the bottles. I used to keep a sort of wine journal but found myself ...

I made the Gourmet recipe last night and it was pretty good, but throughout the day today I found my thoughts drifting off to how it might be improved -- garlic is definitely in order, as Dorie men...

De-lurking (at long last) to say how much I love your weekend meditations. This one reminds me a bit of a suggestion Michael Pollan made very very briefly in an