a little food blog
A mini meatball skillet is the recipe you need when a budding chef says, "Let's cook together!" Sometime in the mid 80s, I received my first cookbook: the Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook. I don't remember cooking a lot from it, but I do remember looking through its pages a lot. The personal pizzas and just-for-fun salads that embellished pear halves with other foods like carrots and marshmallows until the pears looked like mice had me particularly ...
Wildly unpopular yet especially delicious, homemade tuna noodle casserole deserves a spot in your dinner rotation. This from-scratch recipe has no cream of mushroom soup and perhaps more importantly, no peas! I know. This week it's all about turkey, and I show up with tuna. What can I say? I wanted comfort food, so tuna noodle casserole it is! The little girl who was always slightly appalled when "tuna wiggle" would show up on the lunchroom menu is wondering about the adult she's ...
You'll have these easy Asiago-crusted chicken fingers on the table in flash. Two types of breadcrumbs - whole wheat and panko - combined with shredded Asiago cheese and dried oregano coat the baked chicken. Serve alongside a roasted vegetable for a delicious, healthy dinner. I'm doing something new today. I'm joining two of my fellow Charlotte Food Bloggers – Allie and Nina – in a virtual cookbook club. Allie and Nina started sharing different recipes from the same cookbook back in ...
These past few days I worked to update some old blog posts, and you guys, I've said this before but I'll say it again: what a bunch of garbage. Seriously, for any of you who have checked in on this space since the beginning, thank you. Because that entire first year...whoo boy, not so good. You live. You learn. You keep going or you stop. I often want to stop but I keep going anyway. Sometimes that "keep going" part can feel like you are not really getting anywhere. Or sheer wonder how you ...
Taste is subjective. I once enjoyed a cocktail that I absolutely loved, but my friend proclaimed it tasted like cough syrup after just one sip. I think she may have even gagged a little, mentioning something about Robitussin as she tried to choke it down. I was reminded of the wide spectrum of our likes and dislikes as I enjoyed some wine with friends over the weekend. Some of us loved wines that others would have ejected into a spittoon if we had one, and vice-versa. So, I suppose you should ...
I did not know what I was going to write when I sat down tonight. Usually, I have some nonsense in mind that I can start to type out until a thread of coherent or interesting thought appears. Tonight I was just like, well, I could start tapping out letters and see if they make a word? The irony of this is I listened to a podcast this morning about the debate among writers if writer's block exists. I was firmly in the “does not exist” camp. I think there are stretches of time when you are more ...
