Posts from October 2011

Salad & Sunshine is an institution; I do it daily. But salad five days a week can get old really fast. The solution? Make variety easy. For me that means buying local (i.e. no lugging groceries to/from), using raw vegetables (i.

On my fated trip to the farmers' market with the mama, the second new ingredient I walked away with was sorrel. Sorrel looks like a leafy green, with long oblong leaves but it tastes nothing like its green cousins.

The smell of crisp fall air and pungent apple cider vinegar hit my nostrils as soon as we got out of the car. My shoes started to trample over the hundreds of fallen apples that lay strewn on the ground as we walked towards the orchard.

I've been itching to make chocolate chip cookies for some time now. Having the Lindsay clan over for dinner tonight made the perfect excuse to make some. But I didn't want to serve up plain old back-of-the-bag Ghiradelli chocolate chip cookies.

With a visting mom in tow, this week's trip to the farmers' market was quite an adventure. Citizen Jane (as I like to call her), quickly became one of the people, interviewing farmers about their potato varietals and garnering samples of strange leaves and fruits, including a pineapple guava that was neither pineapple nor guava.

Why make one when you can make two? That's the attitude the beau and I adopted last night while making homemade pizzas. Usually, we use the 1lb. ball of dough to roll out one pie, and then we compromise on the toppings.

Guest blogger Jo is back! A girl after my own heart, she investigates the secret behind Axe's 9-grain pancakes... Weekends for me typically involve ridiculously early morning, fitness-inspired activities followed by extended periods of lounging and eating.

As I soak up the sun in Sanibel Island, FL, I find myself thankful for all the groceries that my mom packed in the car before  we drove down and for the kitchen in our condo. Not only has my baby niece maintained her organic homemade baby food regiment, but the family has been well-fed with brunches, mid-day snacks of cheese and crackers, and full-fledged Indian dinners.

My in-house lunch maker is on a trip this week and thus MIA for lunch duty. Left to my own devices, I suspected that I wouldn't be jumping out of bed in the morning ready to make my usual salad.

Editor's Note: Today's entry is contributed by guest blogger, Tina, the author of Just Putzing Around the Kitchen. Tina is an attorney, a lover of all reality and food-related television, a stress-eater, a voracious reader, and an unabashed fantasy/sci-fi dork.

The fragrant smell of cloves and bay leaves wafting through the kitchen reminded me of home. Growing up, channa masala (we just call it channa), was a special occasion dish - a treat of sorts.

The latest cookbook that I've taken for a spin from the Santa Monica public library is Gwyneth Paltrow's My Father's Daughter. Leave it to Gwyneth to add a little glam to what are otherwise simple, healthy recipes.