When I was in elementary school, I didn’t worry about my weight or count calories. If I had, I have no doubt that the summers would have been my healthiest season of the year. Of course, I wasn’t making fruit, nut and goat cheese salad in elementary school, so we can all agree that things are different now.…
Typically, Thursdays on In Good Taste mean “Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge.” What a lot of you don’t know is that I cheat on the challenge. I know I just outed myself, but in a normal week, there is never a guarantee that I’ll actually have the time to bake a fifteen-hour loaf of bread from start to finish. So I bake ahead. Two, three weeks in advance, I bake two or three types of bread in a week so that…
The first time I ever left the country was to go on spring break to Cozumel, Mexico during my junior year in college. I went with a group of about eight girls and shockingly, our intention was actually NOT to get fall-down, plastered-to-the-wall drunk. Sure, everyone likes a good frozen margarita on vacation, but if you’ve ever spent a day in the sun with me after a night of drinking, then you a) probably own stock in Gatorade and b) would…