Today I am writing to ask for your help for our dear friend and fellow food blogger, Erika from The Ivory Hut. For those of you who don’t know her, she is a blogger who shares incredible recipes and photographs and writes beautifully about the stuff of life. She is
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I was at the Columbus Health and Fitness Expo in Ohio this past weekend, demo-ing from my newly released Perfect One-Dish Dinners and The Perfect Recipe For Losing Weight and Eating Great.
I love opportunities like this because they keep me on my toes. They’re an exercise in complete trust. Each
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It’s time for me to come clean.
Before I moved to New York, I was highly judgmental of our friends who lived in the city and ate out almost every night. “Not only is that a waste of money,” I thought, “they are missing out on one of life’s simple pleasures,
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I should have known no one would eat those big baskets of peaches and apples I bought for the Big Summer Potluck.
(I should have known better because as much as my girls loved fruit growing up, they were less likely to eat it in its natural state. In fact the
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It’s been a long time since I cooked for a friend in need. But this week the opportunity presented itself. Our good friends Ariel and Jonathan are getting married next weekend. Most of us have been there. Two weeks before a wedding and you’re doing more to prepare than you
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As a kid mostly deprived of television (we were limited to Dan Rather’s nightly news, the occasional Saturday morning cartoons, and a few stolen moments of the Cosby show), it’s not surprising that I developed an energetic imagination. Mostly, this served me well. I could effortlessly transform our backyard bushes,
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According to inventor, Eric Zimmerman, “the world needs a new utensil.” No, he doesn’t think this is the next semi-useless kitchen gadget like the Hot-Diggity-Dogger or a panini maker. He believes this could be the next fork, knife or spoon—maybe a replacement for all three? I must not have the
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Irma S. Rombauer, one of the original authors of the Joy of Cooking, once wrote, “Eternity is two people and a ham.” To be honest, that sounds more like heaven to me. My eternity this week could be more aptly described as “Two people and a pack of hot dogs.”
After
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I’m working on a meatless cookbook. Not because I really wish I were vegetarian. I just want to be a better carnivore, eating smaller quantities of as much locally, ethically produced meat as I can.
Two days a week David and I typically eat meatless, but we’re not rigid. The other
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This past weekend, 35 food bloggers from next door and as far away as Seattle descended on our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania for The Big Summer Potluck. The idea of the event started when my dear friend Erika from The Ivory Hut and I decided that East Coast food
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It is a well-documented fact that the Anderson family loves lamb. More often than not, when we have each other over for dinner and we’re trying to impress, we make lamb—slow-cooked in deep, rich sauces and falling off the bone, or rubbed, grilled and cooked until barely FDA appropriate, or
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