My husband wrote a song once called “My Night Off.” It is about being a musician or a waitress or whatever and going into a bar or a music scene and NOT being the one performing or waiting tables. Taco night used to be my night off. Husband would do the chopping (which is mainly [...]
Last weekend the Omnivore and I hosted a Tacky Sweater Christmas Party. At the last minute I sort of panicked, thinking we didn’t have enough food, and sent my husband to the corner gas station buy a couple of extra bags of tortilla chips. We [...]
I’m usually pretty good at turning meals with meat in them into fully satisfying vegetarian meals. I can really only remember one time when I was disappointed with the result. I tried to turn a recipe designed as a clever repurposing of Thanksgiving leftovers into a vegetarian dish. I should have known – the recipe [...]
(this post was originally published 3/11) I’ve noticed that sometimes when I’m hosting guests for dinner I don’t do my best cooking. I get a little scared – choose a recipe that is least likely to offend, and thus, least likely to impress. I think I’m learning my lesson that it is not a good [...]
Finally. Summertime. Real vegetables. I was getting so tired of onions, potatoes, cabbage, and broccoli. Now we get brightly colored, highly nutritious, FUN vegetables. And better yet, they’re locally grown. I get to support my neighbor and the veggies don’t have be shipped in days in advance. That is like an ingredient in and of [...]
