Category: Party Food

Every night on my way home from work, I drive through Little Ethiopia and fantasize about Ethiopian food. Ethiopian food, if you've never had it, is usually made of a variety of …

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/3422548923_266c94520b.jpg?v=1239990075" /> <br /> Apologies for the silly title. I'm a little punchy. It's been one of those weeks at work, where I'm constantly teetering on the brink of bursting into manic laughter, at …

I suspect that the time for writing posts about butternut squash and eating things made with butternut squash is quickly drawing to a close. You all want asparagus and rhubarb and meyer lemons and things …

My grandmother belongs to that certain generation that came of cooking age in the 1950's and embraced the introduction of convenience foods with fervor. This means that Cool Whip is in her freezer, …

Springtime may be the most eagerly anticipated time of the year. I have vivid memories of the first warm day of each year when I lived on the East Coast – people would emerge …

My early encounters with sweet potatoes were of the Thanksgiving variety – candied from a can and topped with marshmallows and tooth-achingly sweet. I was not a big fan. I wanted dessert for dessert, and …

It’s confession time. I love mashed potatoes. I know they’re terribly unfashionable in our low glycemic-index, phytochemical-obsessed, Mediterranean Diet culture. They’re stodgy and white and lacking in high concentrations of flavonoids or anthocyanins, without the …