Off Topic: Vegetable Lo Mein

Off Topic: Vegetable Lo Mein

Don’t you just love the holidays? And don’t you just love when they’re over? I adore all of the carb-heavy, fat-laden, coma-inducing foods I make around Christmas but when it’s over I am always left craving something that cuts through the...
Baked Explorations: Buckeyes

Baked Explorations: Buckeyes

  Living next door to Ohio, I had heard of Buckeyes before. I had eaten them in their natural habitat and even made them. They are meant to resemble the nuts of the buckeye tree and, trust me, they do. I don’t know how old they are but I suspect they...
Off Topic: Holiday Fudge and Butter Toffee Popcorn

Off Topic: Holiday Fudge and Butter Toffee Popcorn

So I made the Butter Toffee Popcorn from the Oct. 2010 issue of Cook’s Country and I’m pretty sure I’ve stumbled on the next wildly popular recreational drug.  First of all, it’s popcorn; a food that means movies and fairs and just smells like...
Guest Recipe: Mo’s Holiday Cookies

Guest Recipe: Mo’s Holiday Cookies

Mo and I met at my very first job (I won’t say what year that was but I will give you a hint: we did not have computers and people smoked with abandon right in their offices).  We were young and single together and did lots of young, single things.  Like go to...