I know that there is real Mexican food, and then there are meals that incorporate Mexican flavors. This set of recipes qualifies for the latter. They’re all good, hearty meals for chilly days.
Chicken Tortilla Soup
This recipe scales beautifully, and can be made to feed a family on just one night, or packed to freeze for [...]
Clarifying Complex Ideas
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Random Recipe #14: Kinda Sorta Mexican
Do I Buy Organic?
The question isn’t really whether I spend my money on organic products. The question is whether I buy into the organic theme. And lately, I’m just not sure.
I’m an avid farmer’s market shopper, but as I make my buying decisions — $1 more per basket for organic vs. conventional strawberries, $1.50 more per [...]
Random Recipe #1: Couscous
I’m adding a new feature called the Random Recipe. I have a terrible habit of cooking new things, then forgetting the details when I try to replicate them six months down the line. Of course, I could just document them in Word, but then I wouldn’t have any hope of getting feedback from [...]
Learning to Cook Real Foods
Over the past decade of marriage, our eating habits have increasingly tended towards whole foods. It wasn’t a conscious decision, but as time has gone on, we’ve become less reliant on the packaged foods found in the middle of the supermarket, and more on the “perimeter” foods: produce, meats and dairy.
This has led to [...]
Genius for Cereal Lovers
Trader Joe’s, a store that I love deeply, has a new product: Whole Grain Chocolatey Filled Cereal Bites. Imagine: cereal pillows stuffed with something that tastes suspiciously like Nutella. I’m eating this right now, and it’s decadent beyond all belief. What a completely wacky concept for a cereal. It reminds me [...]
