Decadent Philistines Save the World

Usually, when I envision a "recipe" in my head, it turns out to be less than thrilling on the plate - flavors don't mix well, ...

First and foremost, I must say that I am thankful for the crazy monsoon weather that we've been having in Arizona this year.  While it m...

Lovely little bundles of sunshine Today was one of those just wonderful days.  Not like a "OMG I WON AN OSCAR" type wonderful ...

I love the Kentucky Derby. No.  Actually, I love love love LOVE the Kentucky Derby.  When I was a wee philistine, my parents had to expla...

Since weeks 6 and 7 were a total bust, I wanted to hop back on the wagon this week while I'm on Spring Break.  In discussions with The H...

This week's meal plan is somewhat delayed.  I'm blaming our friends who are in town from DC and the Superbowl party at said friend...

After another week of feeling completely crummy, hacking up what I am convinced it 5/8 of a lung, and starting yet another round of antibiot...

When we were still living in Michigan, one of the magazines that I acquired had an ad for Nike® of a female runner, standing there, looking ...

This is the beginning of the school year for me (already? yikes!), so it's crazy at our place.  The other night I finally went to bed wh...

I had my first harvest today: four cherry tomatoes two (and the only) jalapeños I know - amazing, right?  Aren't you jealous of the am...

My favorite sandwich has to be the bacon-lettuce-tomato.  It's true that the salty bacon and sweet acidity of the tomato work so well to...

I need to preface this entry by saying that the kerfuffle with Zooey on Monday isn't the reason I have been away from the blog for the w...

We got potatoes in our CSA share this week, and Scott was all over them.  He announced that he was going to make vichyssoise, as we had also...

In an attempt to balance my need to not throw any more slimy veggies into the compost bin AND use the anise-scented fennel that we got in la...

One of the items we receive regularly from our CSA this season is lettuce.  We've gotten both red leaf and green leaf. Now, I don't...

I had fully planned on a detailed report of our St. Patrick's Day feast, but I'll be honest - we were so busy eating, I completely f...

I'm sure that somewhere, someone has already put an extensive list together, but this is my list that I'm compiling as we go along t...

Happy (belated) National Pie Day !  When I learned of this (the same way all my other friends did - via NPR), I was furious at not having ma...