I’m going to be up front with you here. Most of the time, when I’m finished cooking, my kitchen looks slightly as though it’s been ransacked. When I try to clean as I go, I get distracted from the actual cooking and when that happens, things get burned, abandoned, forgotten or neglected. The majority of my culinary mistakes happened because I just wasn’t paying a bit of attention. Enter, the mise en place.…
Really, I don’t want to like boxed wine. This Duca del Frassino though? Might be a game changer. Being someone who appreciates quality wine. I don’t want to think wine from a box is convenient, economical or practical and I don’t want to admit that I’ve tried it, drank it and went back for seconds.…
Once upon a time, I was in an airport. I was hungry in said airport (why? because I’m ALWAYS hungry, that’s why). So, I stopped in a charming little Hudson News boutique planning to buy a Luna bar. “Planning to” are the operative words here because when I approached the checkout counter the clerk informed me that the bar was $3.95. Yes, four dollars for a granola bar. Honestly, does anyone like Luna bars that much?…
It’s Friday. You should have a treat. You should, but I shouldn’t. I have had plenty of treats over the past couple of weeks…or months. Semantics. So, with a package of sugar cookie dough then went unused over the holidays — but has not yet expired — and a jar of raspberry preserves that I bought back in June intending to make pop-tarts but never got around to it — also not yet expired — I made these gems.…