Chicken Saagwala is one of my favorite quick and easy meals. I pulled it from the archives to post here when I opened the blog and today, after spending 2 hours on a drive that usually takes 40 minutes (thanks, flooding!) quick was necessary.
Kitchens of India’s Palak Paneer makes it super simple to have something [...]

Tonight’s weekly Farscape night went the direction of many Farscape nights lately, filled mostly with eating and visiting until it was too late to get a proper episode in. But at least dinner was good! I love hosting dinner for friends, so when it’s our turn to host for Farscape it’s always a treat figuring [...]

CONFESSION: I know nothing about wine. Not even a little. I just know that red wine is good for cooking with red meat, while white wine is better for cooking with lighter meats and seafood. The good thing about this is, I’m totally not a snob. This allows me to try all sorts of new [...]

When I discovered Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread and Wine, a wonderful cheese shop / sandwich shop near where I was working recently in Chicago’s Loop, I was ecstatic! I’d been searching for a great source for my favorite serrano ham and manchego cheese for awhile to make a really special treat. We enjoyed it today [...]

Fajitas are tricky to photograph, especially when toothpicks are hard to find. Luckily we still had these bizarre jungle friend martini markers (they dangle on the martini glass like wine charms), so with a little stab at least these stayed put.
I prepared these fajitas using Lawry’s Tequila Lime Marinade that I included with some [...]

CONFESSION: We’ve eaten out every day for nearly a week. Crunch time at work means not a lot of cooking gets done in this house lest my husband cooks for himself. So when my craving for great buffalo chicken got the best of me today, a bottle of Buffalo Wild Wings Spicy Garlic sauce kept [...]

Tilapia used to frighten me. It still kind of does. Often found at my favorite grocer for between $2 and $4 for a bag of 6 delicious filets, I simply didn’t trust it. And yet I’m surprised every single time I make it how utterly delicious it is and I understand why it’s become one [...]

CONFESSION: Nearly all my über-gourmet ingredients come from the Clearance Bin. I can’t help it; I simply can’t pay full price for gourmet ingredients, and I don’t really care how fancy they are. $10 for infused grapeseed oil? Tell me $4 and we’ve got a deal. $6 for Japanese Panko breadcrumbs—hell no. But for $2, [...]

Ikea is awesome. But it’s not just awesome because of the inexpensive homegoods. The café, where you can get mounds of Swedish meatballs, complete with plenty of lingonberry sauce for just a couple bucks, now that’s where it’s at. It’s a favorite comfort food of mine, and lucky for me and my family, the folks [...]

There are some products that come along that are kind of like magic. I really and truly feel that way about Nasoya’s Cubed Super Firm Tofu. I love tofu in restaurants but I could never get the texture right when I made it at home. But once this came into my life, everything was instantly [...]

Since there are now three of us in the house packing lunches for the workday, I decided to make a quick skillet sauce and some pasta specifically for leftovers. It’s a super easy recipe that takes only about half an hour, makes a lot of food and is also nice and light. I had gotten [...]

When America’s Test Kitchen recommends a product, I tend to listen. So when I was trying to decide whether to spend a great deal of money on an olive oil or to go with a basic one, I turned to them for help. And hallelujah, did they deliver.
I’ve tried a number of “whatever’s on sale” [...]