I've become a cooking fiend lately. Formerly I was the Queen of the 30 Minute Meal (move over Sandy Rae or Rachel Ray - whatever your name is), and now I'm becoming the Queen of Made From Scratch. Tonight I made my Mom's white bean chili recipe for dinner. I didn't have canned beans or canned green chilies so I soaked dried beans and saute a green ( Read more... )

I've come to really dislike chunks of potato in things like soup. There is some kind of filler-quality about the potato as well as the feeling that I'm putting unneeded starches in my mouth. When recipes call for potatoes, I've started replacing the potato with the sweet potato ( Read more... )