I would love to come up with a better name for this. Shoot me your suggestions in the comments ( Read more... )

This is a solid dinner for a cold night. It's not the healthiest thing I've ever cooked, but when you actually break it down, it's not as bad as you might think. This also has the distinction of being 1) something my entire family, children included, will tuck into with gusto and 2) under ten dollars for the whole meal, almost certainly. Depending ( Read more... )

Thing One ( Read more... )

I made this for dinner tonight, along with a couple of other things, and man alive it was fabulous ( Read more... )

This is not actually the first meal I've cooked from things not from the supermarket, but it was the first one where I figured out what I needed, picked it up at the market, and came home and cooked. As opposed to picking up things that looked yummy and then coming home and figuring out how to cook and eat them, if you get my drift ( Read more... )

I read about this. . . somewhere? I don't remember where. But anyway, I read it, and scoffed, and said "That will never work." The idea is that you can cook dried beans, from bag to table, in 90 minutes with no pre-soaking. I've cooked a lot of beans in my time, and one thing's for sure, you can't cook 'em in 90 minutes ( Read more... )

I love kale. Yum, yum, yum. Full of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, kale is quite possibly the world's perfect green vegetable ( Read more... )

So, you looked at the title of that and thought "ugh," right? That sounds exactly like some hippie crap they'd feed you in the 70's while enthusing about the benefits of a macrobiotic diet and frequent colon cleanses. And then they'd give you carob-tofu cheesecake for dessert. I mean, kale AND brown rice? For real ( Read more... )

You need a charcoal grill for this one. Also, you need to not hate cilantro ( Read more... )

This salad is so basic it is barely even a recipe, but there you have it. The ingredients are very few, so it's pretty important that they be as fabulous as possible. It's a good excuse to go to the farmer's market ( Read more... )