What’s with the obsession this girl has with radishes? Even though nature’s magenta is reason enough to make friends with this food, it was 1 calorie per radish that required me to make more effort to work it into my diet. Just check the nutritional info over to the left if you want more reasons to eat radishes. And when Michael Symon from Cooking Channel’s Cook Like an Iron Chef fashioned together this salad as an accompaniment to spicy chicken wings, I was all “I can cook like an iron chef too.”

Before I share his simple four-ingredient salad worth every refreshing bite, I need to share some things about Michael Symon.

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We slowed down life if only for a moment, when we looked up from our screens, stepped outdoors, and savored nature’s good work. Jackson Hole was our home on the range for a flash-by weekend made possible by the kindness of some old friends and some new.

Maybe it was the backdrop of the Grand Teton mountains or the smog-free Wyoming air or that we worked up an appetite the size of an elk, but our al fresco chuckwagon lunch centered around a extraordinary pulled pork sandwich that was beyond anything I deserved.

And yet I thought I deserved more, sothose fine folks at Solace Cabin, the lunchtime caterers, were willing to share their secret and oh so savory pulled pork recipe with us.

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Food solves all problems. Why do you think there are 17,973,029,001 food blogs?

My motto: life happens, then you eat, then you die.

So whenever a hardship – rain or cold or colds or cold-sores or cold shoulders – comes our way, only one remedy soothes from the inside out. The gold standard in my kitchen is simple requiring few ingredients – stock, chicken, carrots, celery & onions and whipped up in about the time it takes to blow a nose. But then I caught wind of Thomas Keller’s chicken and dumpling soup in the Ad Hoc at Homecookbook. Through a wee bit more effort ’cause, just a wee bit more, a sublime, healthy and filling soup emerged. Everyone around your dining table will eat it up and really, it’s gourmet food disguised as comfort food.

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Stir-fries are the perfect solution for a crunchtime dinner. In the time it takes the kids tell you about who did what to whom at school today, you can sear up a fresh, secretly healthy meal that will fill those mouths and render the table peaceful.

But if your stir-fry, like my stir-fry, doesn’t taste anything like that Chinese place that delivers, I have a few sure-fire tips found in Sunset & Saveur mags. They’re doable for the most crunched and even the most dunced in the kitchen.

And the rice, a surprisingly simple way to make it from the French and (when do they make anything easy?).

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DALSposted a favorite Steve Jobs quote, “stay hungry, stay foolish.”

I need comfort food today, how about you?

Before you think you only have time to open a can of tomato soup, please see how easy comfort food without guilt can be.

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