Do you ever read cookbooks just for fun? I do. I spend a lot of time perusing my beloved stash of cookbooks and drooling over the photos, making plans to incorporate them into my menus in the coming weeks. I especially love cookbooks with gorgeous photography and pretty, professional layouts, which may be why Isa…
Lately my sleep has been getting interrupted. Halfway through the night, our toddler comes pitter-pattering into our bedroom and climbs into bed with us. Then our kitty decides to join in. The other morning I actually woke up, scrunched down below my pillow, to find our cat, Sebastian, sprawled out across my entire pillow! I…
One of my favorite vegetarian dishes at our local Indian buffet is Palak Paneer. There is something miraculous in heaping a dark green mushy dish on your plate, chock full of spinach, and having it taste so delicious that you keep going back for more. When I hear people say that they don’t like vegetables,…
I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I subscribe to Self Magazine. Not that there is anything wrong with it– but now that I’m thirty-something, happily married, with three kids – I know I’m probably no longer their target audience! But I am a magazine junkie. I have a hard time resisting magazines in…
The very first vegetarian cookbook I ever owned is Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home. My sister gave it to me soon after my husband and I went vegetarian in 2003. The first recipe that I made from it is on the very first page of the book, a simple, ridiculously easy black bean soup. I’ve…