Waste-Less Wednesday posts are all about ways to reduce or eliminate food waste, particularly at home. Most of the posts to date have focused on creative ideas for using more of the food that comes into your kitchen, especially fruits and vegetables. We've looked at ways to repurpose carrot greens, enjoy a glut of backyard … Continue reading Waste-Less Wednesday: Fava Leaves, Hold the Chianti
Passover starts this evening at sundown, Lent is coming to an end, and Easter is on Sunday. There will be Seders and Second Seders and brunches (oh my!). In short, it's a weekend to hang with your nearest and dearest, enjoy their company and indulge a bit -- or a lot. Whether you want a … Continue reading Recipe: Local Salty Dog
Last Friday's Birthday Week Indulgence was lunch at one of my go-to "quick food" spots in the 650: Asian Box. (More about that some other time.) While I was watching the locals fight it out for lunch-time parking spots in the ridiculously crowded Palo Alto Town & Country shopping center and digging into my usual … Continue reading Waste-Less Wednesday: Peanut Sauce
Today's Birthday Week indulgence is homemade comfort food that brings together two recent Waste-Less Wednesday ingredients: lemons and herbs. Remember those 7-Day Preserved Lemons? After a week of climbing the kitchen stepladder to shake those babies up, it's time to crack them open and take them for a taste test! Opening the mason jar of … Continue reading Waste-Less Wednesday: Soba Noodles with 650 Gremolata
If you were following along with last week's user test of Alice Medrich's Peanut Crunch Brownies, then you might recall that I found myself sans a key ingredient when it came time to make said brownies. Yup, not a spoonful of crunchy, salted natural peanut butter in the house. Crap. While I will happily make … Continue reading Cook Local: DIY Crunchy Peanut Butter
Due to technical difficulties, this week's Waste-Less Wednesday post is appearing today. Hey, now you have some waste-less projects for the weekend. Carry on. It's that time of year again: I'm up to my ass in lemons. Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a wee bit, but between the Eurekas from my backyard and the Meyers from … Continue reading Waste-Less Weekend: Lemonpalooza
Why is that food cravings have no sense of timing and just won't respect your schedule? Yesterday I was craving a bowl of fresh, homemade, flavorful soup. Problem? I had about 25 minutes to assemble and consume this fantasy soup before I had to be somewhere. Yikes! There was no way I had the time … Continue reading Waste-Less Wednesday: No-Recipe Soup
This is a story of how best-laid plans and good intentions kinda went off the rails. ICYMI, January 26 was Australia Day. Kind of a big deal -- national holiday and all that -- Australia Day is the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Port Jackson, aka Sydney Harbor. Lacking a better … Continue reading Lesson Learned: Making Lamingtons
Remember weekday lunches when you were a kid? When I was in middle school, the administration would send home a monthly calendar of the cafeteria's hot meals, which my mother posted on the refrigerator. It was up to me to check the calendar on school nights and tell her whether to leave lunch money or … Continue reading Lunch Break: Satisfying Winter Salad
Phew! December has been a whirlwind, hasn't it?! Between end-of-the-year everything (and if you're a business owner and/or financial type, you definitely know what I mean), not to mention the onslaught of holidays, there's hardly been time to catch up. And yet, here we are at the tail end of 2014! The Winter Solstice has … Continue reading Hello, It’s Me: Christmas Toddy
