Popular, Quick Tips, Slow Cooker, Soup
Roast Your Chicken Bones for Richer Stock
Look how deliciously, deeply brown it is! Chilling your stock makes it easy to remove the excess fat, which congeals ...
Baby Food, Breakfast, Dessert, Jew Food, Popular, Sides, Vegetarian
Not-Too-Cheesy Apricot Noodle Kugel
If you’re Jewish and at all observant, you’re wondering why I’m posting this now. I know, I know, it’s a little late for a perfect-for-break-fast kugel. ...
Baking, Books, Bread, Mains, One-Handed Meals, Popular, Recipes, Vegetarian, Weight Watchers
Jim Lahey’s Mushroom Pizza
I seem to be on a pizza kick.
What can I say? Maybe it’s because, now that I got a taste of how ridiculously easy it ...
Mains, Popular, Recipes, Slow Cooker
OhMyGod Slow Cooker Short Ribs of Beef
Did you hear us moaning the other night? Like, moaning-moaning, the sound your body makes involuntarily when experiencing something so good it shakes you to your ...
Baking, Dessert, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Popular, Quick Tips
How to Use Fondant, for Absolute Beginners
Before you start asking if I’m qualified to write a guide to fondant, considering that I only used it for the first time last week, let ...
Books, Mains, Popular, Recipes, Vegetarian
Braised Escarole and White Beans, from My New Favorite Cookbook
I’ve been unfaithful. Three times, just in the last two weeks. And I don’t feel a bit guilty.
For years, my list of favorite cookbooks has remained ...
Baking, Dessert, Jew Food, Popular, Weight Watchers
Passover Birthdays Don’t Have to Suck (Not When There’s Chocolate Souffle Cake)
Today is my sister-in-law K’s birthday. It’s also the beginning of Passover—starting at sundown tonight, for eight days observant Jews will forego all kinds of forbidden ...
Mains, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Popular, Recipes, Weight Watchers
The Barefoot Contessa’s Turkey Meatloaf
This’ll be a short post since for some reason I’m exhausted at 5:30 in the afternoon…
It’s also short because this is, bar none, the most flavorful ...
Nutritious Nibbles, Popular, Snack, Weight Watchers
Better Than Sex? (Frozen Grapes)
Mention frozen grapes in any Weight Watchers meeting and listen to the sighs of remembered pleasure. In my meeting a few weeks ago, one member claimed ...
Dessert, Popular, Weight Watchers
Roasted Pineapple
It happened again.
At the supermarket the other day, there were lovely, aromatic pineapples on display. Good price, too. I selected carefully, sniffing the bottoms as I’d ...