When I was in college I lost some weight on Weight Watchers. The program was excellent and I saw the results I wanted but looking back, my diet consisted almost entire of highly processed foods full of chemicals in attempt to eat fewer calories. I participated in a community message board where I, along with a group of women all losing or maintaining weight, would post our daily menus for accountability. At first I was embarrassed that I relied on this…
Not What It Seems: Whole Wheat Beer Bread
Breakfast & Brunch, Cooking for a Crowd, Recipes, Small Plates & Snacks November 3, 2009
I’m a believer in personal responsibility. I don’t think that video games are responsible for teenage violence and I don’t think that Eminem songs fuel drug addictions and substance abuse. However, my one exception to that rule is Sex and the City. Sex and the City was one of my favorite shows in college, to the point where my mother used to tape episodes on HBO every week and mail them to me so that my roommate and I could stay up…
I spent this past weekend in Chicago visiting an old friend friend from college whose kitchen I’ve talked about here before. I also had a hot date to a fabulous Halloween fiesta. Since I seem to have an inability to enter a party empty handed, and was away from my own kitchen and it’s sugar, flour and abundant spice cabinet, I would have to use a few tricks in order to whip up a few treats. Halloween chocolate candy bark…
