Either I’m serving too much corn on the cob or I’m not making it yummy enough to devour in one sitting, because several ears of leftover corn keep finding their way into my the refrigerator. So when I paid a visit to that marquee food site and corn pudding was splashed all over [...]

Most mornings I’m caught in a kitchen roundabout within the refrigerator-pantry-bread bin-fruit bowl intersection looking for a new breakfast idea until I arrive at what? fruit smoothies and poppyseed bagels again? Either the days are passing quickly or I am losing stamina ideas. I don’t know if this is a [...]

It’s officially spring but winter and seasonal depression lag.  In winter, and I’m speaking from having lived in Wisconsin, Chicago and New York, I craved maybe the worst foods to lift me from the winter doldrums. Comfort foods like potatoes, breads, pastas, and cookies – warm chocolate chip cookies – [...]

1. Egg White Tostada

Egg white tostadas are only easy when you’re using ingredients that are readily available in your kitchen, which most likely occurs when you have remaining items from another meal, or if you live in Southwestern states and can’t help yourself at the farmer’s market when you see [...]

“My Saturday morning trip to the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market is one of my most beloved rituals–I stop by Boulettes to get my English muffins and eggs for breakfast…,” Alice Waters from Chez Panisse said about the Bay area cafe and larder where we had our own egg [...]