Recipes

A Quick Ratatouille-ish Stew

18:30 Friday January 7, 2005. It’s been dark for nearly two hours already. S and I are just back from the Laundromat (oh, for a washer and ...

Sugar High Friday was a bit of a challenge for me this month. I returned to Weight Watchers two weeks ago, and after last week’s ...

Tonight I went to Weight Watchers after my first week back on the program. And (drum roll, please): I gained .6 of a pound. ...

When you’re one of four kids growing up in a three-bedroom apartment without much money, you find yourself taking turns a lot. My brothers and I ...

When I was a kid, my parents never went out on New Year’s Eve. Not once. They never had people over, either—it always was just the ...

The night before I went back to Weight Watchers, S and I cooked together. Although I do the majority of the cooking around here (and he ...

There are a lot of mirrors in a gym. Back when I was a workout fiend, spending at least an hour there six (often seven) days a week, I loved ...

I love this time of year, always have, and since I met S I’ve been enjoying it even more. You see, I have a confession to ...

Beef has never played a big role in my kitchen. While I enjoy a juicy-to-my-elbows burger as much as the next person, a hunk of steak ...

Here in New York it’s been pretty dreary all week, varying degrees of cold and rainy, and when it gets like this all I want to ...