When I worked full-time, I often edited while listening to podcasts. Aside from This American Life, The Moth, and Planet Money, I also listened to a few cooking podcasts, including, of course, The Splendid Table. While I can hardly remember to update my phone these days, never mind listening to a podcast, sometimes I manage [...]
Back in November I received an exciting – to food bloggers – delivery. A giant box from Honey Ridge Farms had arrived, stuffed with their entire line of raw honey cremes. My mind immediately started working on overdrive to come up with recipes using this bounty, but because of the holidays and travel I didn’t [...]
On many of the days I don’t have my son in my care (he goes to preschool twice a week, which is integral to his social skills and my sanity) I head over to a coffee shop near campus and pound away at the keyboard. There are myriad coffee shops in Austin, and I’m picky [...]
Beets have a lot of strikes against them. Well-intentioned relatives are always serving them, slippery out of the can. Their name is “beet”, which is decidedly one of the most unpoetic vegetable names. (At least the other until-recently maligned vegetable, Brussels sprouts, has that Continental air to it.) And of course, there is the whole [...]
The other day I made tofu for dinner, and I liked it. Last night I made some turnips to go with our roasted chicken. 2012 might be turning out to be a topsy-turvy world for me. But when it comes to eating better, that isn’t a bad thing.
I have to admit that [...]











