My family is bananas about bananas. Whether in cakes, muffins, cereal or all by themselves, bananas are a staple in my house.Even our cat, Daphne, goes ape over them. The least social of our four felines, Daphne somehow knows when a banana is about to be eaten: She comes running from one of her ...
Everyone has a household chore they dread. For me, it鈥檚 dealing with dishes 鈥� in any capacity.We have a mighty fine dishwasher that gets put through its paces several times a week. It cleans and dries for me; the effort is minimal. But I look at the machine that does these things with the ...
We wanted to create a pasta dish that brought out the delicate, earthy flavor hiding in supermarket mushrooms. We selected cremini mushrooms, which have a meatier texture and a more intense, woodsy flavor than button mushrooms but are still readily available.Butternut squash heightened the ...
Perhaps an arbitrary number of cloves, the 40 in this French dish are iconic; while the chicken braises, the generous cloves become appealingly soft and spreadable. But their flavor is often spiritless.Another offense: The chicken is tender, but the breast meat dries out and tastes wan. We ...
My favorite grain, barley, has made it to the mainstream.When visiting a high end restaurant in Pittsburgh, we had it鈥s an appetizer! I had inserted barley into specials in my restaurant, but never was bold enough to put it on the menu. And here it was.OK, so it is not quite yet mainstream, ...
The luck of the Irish was with me earlier this week when I received a phone call from Sandi Kern, an integrative nutrition health coach in Washington.With St. Patrick鈥檚 Day just around the corner, Sandi 鈥� at the urging of a friend 鈥� wanted to share a gluten-free, dairy-free version of ...
