This weekend is the Jewish festival of Purim.  Purim is a fun holiday, usually celebrated with parades and parties — and the giving of yummy treats to friends.  Definitely a holiday that anyone could get behind. Just quickly, here is my version of the Purim story: King Ahasuerus of Persia was kind of a jerk.  [...]

For Chanukah my parents got my husband and I a bunch of kosher cookbooks.  Well, I read them… he gets to enjoy the product.  One of them is a cookbook called Olive Trees and Honey.  It has vegetarian recipes from Jewish communities around the world: Turkey, Syria, Morocco, India, Tunisia, Italy, Hungary… they really meant [...]

This week is vegetarian dinner week! Mike and I decided to do the humane thing try to eat less meat. Ok… that’s not true. We ran out of chicken and realized it after my weekly trip to the grocery store. I confess. But we also decided NOT to run out and get more chicken. So [...]

Saturday night Mike decided where to go for dinner.  When I decide (or even when we decide together), we end up at an Asian restaurant.  I alternate between my favorite Sichuan, Thai, Vietnamese, and Korean restaurants… I simply can’t get enough Asian cuisine.  Mike can.  So I let him pick.  Neither of us are particularly [...]

If you’re a regular reader (that is, if you’re married to me or related to me), then you know that about me already.  Roasting vegetables is my 2nd favorite way to prepare them — 2nd only to grilling, which I prefer only because it is more fun.  The flavor is nearly the same. Roasting brings [...]

Between the snow and being unemployed for a few weeks (new gig starts this week!), I’ve had a lot of time on my hands.  I could’ve spent that time sitting on the couch watching tv, exercising, or rearranging the furniture in my house for no reason but I decided to spend it cooking.  More specifically, [...]

Much like everyone else in America, my eyes were on the Super Bowl last Sunday night.  Would the Manning legacy live on?  Would the Saints and the City of New Orleans have their dreams realized?  Well, we all know what happened.  But what many of you may not know is that we Marylanders (and DCers [...]

If you’re anywhere in the mid-Atlantic region, you’ve probably had a week much like mine.  Waking up to White Mountains outside your window, chuckling at the newspaper’s latest bad pun (“This is S’now Joke”-ha!), and then thinking, well now what? My go-to activity has been browsing my cookbooks, casting aside the “30-minute meals”  ones, and [...]

I’m home right now in between jobs (one more week of being at home… haven’t decided how I feel about that) playing stay-at-home-mom to my dog who is recovering from her second ACL surgery.  Needless to say, I have some time on my hands so I thought I’d try a few recipes that were on [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the food that I bring into my house.  I recently watched Food, Inc. and wasn’t shocked by anything that I saw but I was still deeply disturbed.  To be very honest, I’ve always focused my attention on human rights and social justice not animal rights.  But something that I’ve [...]