Our daughter, The World’s Pickiest Eater™, consumes almost nothing I make. She will, however, devour Yorkshire pudding. I like it with mustard-crusted roast beef, mashed potatoes, mushy peas and onion gravy. Fresh horseradish, too. But she’ll ask for it with just about anything. And so Yorkshire pudding has become pretty much a staple in our house. The […]
From the better-late-than-never department, Happy Hanukkah! Trying to figure out which recipe to use for my first attempt at matzo ball soup was more than a little daunting. Just figuring out the proper spelling is hard enough. There are thousands of recipes (each handed down from a grandmother, it seems) in cookbooks and online and, […]
If I was lucky enough to own white pants (L won’t let me), I wouldn’t pack them away this Labour Day weekend as custom dictates. I would wear them defiantly at least until Thanksgiving, I don’t like to give up summer without a fight. Swimming in the lake is good, as far as I’m concerned, […]
Rhianna P’s guest blog didn’t tempt me even for a minute to run out and buy a jar of Ovaltine, but it did get me thinking of the comfort foods of my own youth. And, for me, a bowl of milky sweet (with a hint of saltiness), porridge in the morning always makes me feel […]
As a baseball fan who supports another team in the American League East, I’d like to trim the fat off the New York Yankees payroll. But since I’m powerless to do that, I settle for trimming the fat off some New York fries. This recipe is almost as easy as figuring out which players used […]
Meats, Roots and Leaves 