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 [...]
Although the temperatures keep creeping up into the 80s, I’m finding it’s the perfect time to be getting back into the swing of baking bread. For whatever reason, one bread I always have success with is cinnamon swirl. Thanks to the apples we’ve been getting in our produce delivery (and the huge bounty I got [...]
The first time I ever had eggplant parmesan was early on in my relationship with my husband. His friends had invited us over for dinner, and only when I arrived did I find out that the wife was vegetarian. Of course that’s not really cause for concern, but we were going to be having eggplant [...]











