Category: weeknight dinners

I like to to say I'm a California girl born and bred, but when I hit the tender age of seventeen I was ready for anything but. I wanted away from brown hills and …

There's something wonderfully retro about a sloppy joe in a 1950's Americana kind of way. You can imagine not Betty Draper (God Forbid she cook anything as plebeian as a sloppy joe) but her …

It's that time of the year when people who have vegetable gardens and live close to the earth and in tune with the seasons and all that start complaining about zucchini. "I have so …

It's funny how life works. We spend our entire childhoods longing to grow up, so eager to join the ranks of adulthood that we can almost taste it. To a child, the …

When people think of comfort food, they usually return to their childhood, and foods of the nursery. Macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, chicken noodle soup. The food of my childhood, while delicious, …

Ah, the poor crockpot. It is used, nay, embraced all winter, when it churns out a steady stream of warming soups, hearty stews and stick-to-your-ribs casseroles. Then, come summertime and hot weather, the …

<img alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2442/3623628116_09103d0693.jpg?v=1246405358" title="Corsican Omelet" class="alignnone" width="500" height="333" /><br /> There is a phenomenon known as "breakfast for dinner" whereby seemingly normal people choose to ingest breakfast foods, namely French toast, pancakes and bacon for dinner. …