Mark Bittman Shows Us How to Make Crustless Quiche

Here’s a great little video from Mark Bittman showing how to make quiche without making the time-consuming pie crust. I personally don’t make pie crust, but I love quiche, so this is an attractive idea for me. (I also love pie, but that is an example of where I appreciate it more when someone else [...]

Farmers Market Vegetable Soup

The problem with going to the farmers market is that it is all too easy to yield to temptation and grab up way too many fresh vegetables than you can possibly eat in a week. What better way to take advantage of all that bounty than to make a huge pot of soup? You can [...]

A Buying Guide for Seafood That’s Safe for You & the Environment

It is not easy eating seafood these days. There are a number of health concerns, mercury being the number-one issue that has been in the news lately. Beyond that, you also have to worry about PCBs, pollutants and chemicals in your seafood. And if you care at all about the environment, there are a host [...]

Hummus: Simple and Easy

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Hummus and other Middle Eastern/Mediterranean foods have become very popular lately, and with good reason. They are not only delicious, but usually chock full of things that are good for you, while low in fat. But I have to say that grocery stores and Mediterranean delis have a good scam going selling prepared [...]

I Hate This Commercial!

I hate this commercial for Dixie paper plates. Basically, it’s a bunch of moms saying that because they use disposable plates, they can spend more time with their family, which makes them better moms than me, I guess.
Why do I hate this commercial so much? Let me count the ways:

It promotes throwing even more trash [...]

Making Muffins

Banana-sunflower seed muffins.
It is so hard when you go into a Starbuck’s or the coffee bar in the bookstore, and you just want a little something, to find anything that’s reasonably healthy. All those gigantic portions of cake, cookies as big as your head, oozing cinnamon buns, danishes and croissants look good, but they’re usually [...]

Running the Home Kitchen Like a Restaurant, Revisited

Recently, I blogged about running my home kitchen like a restaurant kitchen in order to ensure we get a nutritious, home-cooked meal each night, even though my hands are full taking care of a 2-month-old baby. I was going to try to prep ingredients for meals ahead of time so that when it was dinner [...]

The Farmers Market: A New Family Tradition?

So far this year we have gotten up and gotten down to the farmers market every Saturday morning. Why am I excited about this? Well, I’ve always intended to go to the farmers market, but most Saturdays I couldn’t be bothered. We would sleep in or laze around in PJs all morning or get distracted [...]