We are huge rice fans around here. It turns beans into a complete protein, and right now it is one of a few types of grains that I can safely have. My rice cooker died quite awhile ago, so I just cook them in a pot on the stove. Most of the time, this works [...]
Greens can be disgusting. My early interactions with cooked greens involved canned or frozen spinach. The flavor gets crazy intense, and they tend toward the slimy side at that point. Blech. I remember talking to Hubby (then “Just close friends, I swear”) on the phone years ago. It was around midnight, and my Pastor-dad was [...]
You can’t take my word on the flavor of this coleslaw. I just don’t like coleslaw at all. Cabbage? Yes. Tangy…anything? No. I kindof encouraged (begged) Hubby to break his diet to try this for me. He made it worse, I thought, but everyone else raved about it. It was nice, because I’m typically at [...]
What is it about Asian food that is so ridiculously wonderful? I don’t really know what I was thinking not liking it as a kid. If I’m bummed, sick, celebratory, blah, excited…head to the buffet! I do have to say that fried rice is not my first pick. Lo Mein, on the other hand, I [...]
Mostly, we have been living off of variations on tacos and salads and taco salads. On Tuesday nights, though, we go to a community group Bible Study, and I have to make something different. It had been awhile since we just had beans, and this night was a pot of brown beans (which she topped [...]
It’s really no secret that I don’t like to cook with butternut squash. But unless you’ve seen the squash sitting on my counter for…weeks? A month or two? I guess that is a plus. They just don’t go bad. At least, I don’t *think* they do… Aside from being difficult to cut, they take awhile [...]
For as much as I’ve talked about my love of potatoes, I have yet to post about the mashed potatoes in the cookbook. Go figure. Maybe I was subconsciously saving it for such an occasion as this- the 100th post on this site! I was going to have streamers and confetti fall on cue there, [...]
There are a couple of things that you’ll see several times on a meal plan before I get a post up on it. Usually, that means I have come close to making it, but I’ve missed some vital ingredient. For instance, every time I plan to make Millet Crunch Granola, I can’t find the millet. [...]
The irony that as soon as I post about our eating habits maturing, I post only kid favorites. Pizza and fries- really, how can you go wrong there? At one point in my life, I actually wanted to call french fries (yeah, like McDonald’s stuff) potatoes. I mean, how much can they honestly do to [...]
Typically, I’m a one pot meal kind of person- casseroles, soups, crock pot wonders, etc. So, when I find something like the Baked Ginger Orange Tofu that my family loves but that is not exactly a balanced meal, I’m in foreign territory. Everything looks strange and wonderful and intimidating, and I am afraid of insulting [...]
