For the last few months I have been continually impressed with Michelle Duggar. Giving birth to 19 children with one more on the way is no small feat. The morning sickness alone is a challenge. In a study done a decade ago by researchers at Cornell University, 66 percent of women reported feeling some sort [...]
Archive for the ‘Recipes’ Category
A Sweet Green Vegetable Shake
Posted in Recipes, tagged eating well, michelle duggar, vegetable shake on February 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Chile Con Queso Dip for the Ravens (and the Saucy Dipper’s Dipstock!)
Posted in Recipes, tagged baltimore ravens, cheese dip, dipstock, saucy dipper on January 31, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I am so freakin’ sad about this year’s Super Bowl. More than a week has passed since the Ravens lost the AFC Championship, and I still cringe every time I hear someone talk about the big game. In my mind I see Flacco, who played an awesome game despite weeks of enduring endless ridicule from [...]
Ukrainian Cheese Blintzes and Farmer’s Cheese
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, tagged cheese blintzes, cottage cheese, farmers cheese, martha stewart on January 19, 2012 | 9 Comments »
I’m not a fan of farmer’s cheese. I love the idea of it because it is popular in Poland, and I am Polish and I have Polish pride. But the taste? Not so much. I like my cheese to be bold. I want salt and I want intense flavor. I wouldn’t reach for a slice of, [...]
Chocolate Babka
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, tagged chocolate babka, Jewish desserts, martha stewart, the smitten kitchen on December 30, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Seinfeld taught me this about chocolate babka: A chocolate version is better than cinnamon, so much so that one cannot possibly go to a party with a cinnamon babka when one knows that a chocolate babka, the better babka, will be present. But even though I’ve seen this episode, one of my favorites, dozens of [...]
Pluot Crumble Pie
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, tagged floyd zaiger, fruit crisp, pluot pie, pluots on September 5, 2011 | 11 Comments »
If I order dessert at a restaurant, it’s never chocolate. If it’s winter or one of those rare occasions I’m just not in the mood for ice cream, my favorite after dinner sweet, I will always order fruit desserts. And I don’t mean a bowl of fruit. No matter how fresh and bright and in-season [...]
Peach Muffins
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, tagged bennett orchards, peach muffins, peach picking on August 18, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Last year I wrote about what has become one of my favorite summer field trips: picking peaches at Bennett Orchards in Delaware. The orchard is on our way home from Ocean City when we take the Delaware route, so we stopped in again this year after our early August vacation. Field trip actually isn’t the right [...]
Bee balm tea
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, tagged bee balm plant, bee balm tea, herb teas on June 13, 2011 | 12 Comments »
My parents have nice garden spread over two square plots behind their house. There’s a couple of blueberry and grape bushes, chunks devoted to yellow, orange, and red flowers, and, in the center of one plot, a couple of bee balm plants. Bee balm, also known as Bergamont and horsemint, is a plant with bright [...]
