Crispy and savory, these green bean fries are a delightful 5-ingredient side dish to enjoy with good ketchup. My, how the world of food has opened up. Thirty years ago, if you ordered fries, you might have a choice of seasoned curly fries or regular. But other than that, fries were fries. They were made…
How to Hard Boil Eggs
From sliced on toast to crumbled on salads to filled with seasoned egg yolk paste, hard boiled eggs have so many culinary uses. Here’s how to hard boil eggs. Hard-Boiled Eggs vs. Hard-Cooked Eggs Is there a difference between hard-boiled eggs and hard-cooked eggs? Yes, but the terms are often used interchangeably these days. If…
Curried Roast Cauliflower Recipe from The Vegan Slow Cooker
Take a peek at the newly revised cookbook, The Vegan Slow Cooker by Kathy Hester, which is filled with flavorful, exciting plant-based recipes including Curried Roast Cauliflower. Lots of folks have fallen head over heels for their Instant Pots. And I get it: It cooks food fast. But it doesn’t negative the prep time for…
Bacon, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Salad
A runny egg yolk takes the place of salad dressing in this warm, comforting breakfast salad. The writing style didn’t come easily to me. After years penning stories about arrests and trials and city ordinances and budgets as a journalist, I could formulate those news stories with ease. But to write about food — the…
Sundried Tomato, Chicken and Garlic One-Pot Pasta
Sundried Tomato, Chicken and Garlic Pasta is a flavorful, bright one-pot pasta with the sweetness of sundried tomatoes and pungent earthiness of garlic. Sundried tomatoes were the darling of the 80s and 90s. They were on the menus of restaurants all over. Used as a garnish, an ingredient and a flavor booster, this Mediterranean food…
These Meal Prep Lunch Ideas are Better than Takeout
Bringing lunch to work isn’t just a way to save money. It’s also a way to eat well, both in terms of flavor and health. These meal prep lunch ideas will help. Lunch meal prep starts with a plan. What do you want to eat? What do you like to snack on? What will you…
Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze
With a sweet-tart lemon glaze and a crumb dotted with juicy blueberries, this Bundt cake makes a lovely breakfast. Be sure to let the cake fully cool before glazing. The sale made me do it. When I spotted the swirls of this Heritage style Bundt pan with the sale price in red, I couldn’t resist….
Sweet Potato and Red Onion Shells One-Pot Pasta
With warm notes of cinnamon and sweet Hungarian paprika, as well as sweet potatoes, red onions and Napa cabbage, this pasta has an exotic feel to it — and a totally welcome one, at that. Tagines were really popular the holiday season that I moonlighted at Williams-Sonoma. The term refers to both the cooking vessel…
Everything You Need to Know About Lunch Meal Prep
Lunch meal prep is preparing foods and ingredients intended for packing for lunches. Doing so makes it easier to select and prepare lunches to take to school or work on a daily basis. What do you need to know to get started? The sun is warm, streaming through the windows on a Sunday. I’ve already…
Satay-Style Chicken with Peanut Sauce
If you like chicken satay, the traditional Thai dish, you’ll love this recipe for Satay-Style Chicken with Peanut Sauce. It has all the flavor! Plus, it’s great to make ahead for lunches. A few of my colleagues have recently joined a local wellness program that comes with an extensive meal plan, exercise regime and weekly…