I have always looked at French Toast on restaurant menus with disdain, snubbing my nose at people who order it for brunch because, come on, anyone can make French Toast at home. Why would you order it at a restaurant? Alas, I have been sort of lying in my snobbishness. Because for most of my…
This is not a helpful “pantry staple” recipe. If your grocery store is overrun by panicked shoppers a la my Safeway, you might be out of luck. But after an overly indulgent few days of comfort food I was eager to eat a veggie-heavy meal. My grocery store had no spinach, romaine, or salad-type veggies,…
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Okay, fine, I have more than one recipe for soup that I call “poop soup.” And they all have proper names that sound a smidge more appetizing. But I like to call a spade a spade, and any recipe with more than four cups of chopped kale turns into a recipe that’s great for your…
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Every January I, and most of the rest of the self-flagellating crowd I know, lament too loud and too much that we ate too much over the holidays so we must cut back and deprive ourselves of all goodnesses in January to restart our diets and, therefore, our lives. As I’ve gotten older this desire…
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I am not Italian. My parents are not Italian. Nobody in my family is even married to an Italian. My grandmother’s sister-in-law though was allegedly pretty friendly with Vic Cassano who owned a pizza joint and therefore, eighty years on, my family claims this lasagna as our own. Except the secret to this lasagna isn’t…
There are a lot of really, really good muffin recipes on the internet. I’ve tried many of them. My favorite is Smitten Kitchen’s “Perfect Blueberry Muffins.” She presents a pretty basic recipe and I can guarantee that if you follow it pretty closely, you will get a muffin as dome-shaped and glittering as hers. It’s…
I love hosting friends and family overnight at our home, partially because guests are the best excuse to bake something sweet for breakfast. This past weekend my sister-in-law and boyfriend visited and Safeway had strawberries on sale 3 for $10. So I did what any person would do on Sunday morning: Wake up at 6:30…
The Outraged Eater 