peas at a party

According to Holiday Insights and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, today is Ask a Stupid Question Day.  Okay, I’ll go first.  Why?
ROT Warning!  That would be Really Off Topic.  Don’t you just love it when someone just says it’s a holiday and, thanks to the Internet, it is?  Holiday Insights says that teachers started this day […]

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First, recipes can’t be copyrighted.  At least the ingredient list and instructions can’t, except for rare exceptions.  So this isn’t a legal issue.  It’s more an issue for Miss Manners.
This week’s newsletter had two recipes with very specific roots.  One, Cannellini and Italian Sausage, was from a favorite blog, Elise Bauer at Simply Recipes.  Her recipes […]

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Manny Howard took the challenge to “eat locally” to heart.  Instead of defining “local” as within a 100-mile radius of his house, he decided to limit his own personal local to his own yard and garage.  The real kicker?  His yard is in Brooklyn!
The freelance food writer worked seven days a week, from six to 16 […]

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Don’t worry.  Not a single frog in this recipe.  It’s named for the Frogmore Plantation on St. Helena Island in South Carolina, where it’s said the dish originated.  It’s also known as St. Helena Stew or Low Country Boil.  This regional favorite is served on paper plates at a newspaper-covered table.
One-pot boils can turn any weeknight […]

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School is now in full swing and the fall crazies are well under way.  So what better time to proclaim Family Day, a day for having dinner together as a family?  The new report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, CASA, is even more startling than in previous years […]

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