Almost exactly a year ago, I was wandering around the Borough Market in London. It was my first trip to London, and I was having a fantastic time. The market was full of people and food, and I probably looked like a dolt as I snapped picture after picture. One of the stands I wandered [...]

I haven’t been doing much baking lately because it has been too hot. But we’ve cooled down over the last couple of days, and I started feeling the baking itch. During my internet surfing, I came across this recipe from the Food and Wine Magazine website. It looked pretty easy and I had all the [...]

For more than eight months, this recipe has been sitting in my “to try” pile. But instead of making it during the dark, cold days of winter when we craved comfort food, I had to wait until the hottest week of summer, in a house with no air conditioning. There’s something wrong with me, I [...]

This is the perfect little cake. It is quick and easy to make with ingredients that are probably sitting in your kitchen right now. There are no fancy mixing methods, no expensive, hard-to-find ingredients and no decadent frostings. Not too sweet or heavy, this cake is perfect for breakfast or as an afternoon snack. You [...]

I’ve been thinking about making my own baked beans ever since I returned from a trip to Eastern Tennessee back in May. I had some decent barbecue while I was there, but it was a side of beans that really stands out in my mind. After a bit of internet browsing, I stumbled on a [...]

I’ve been looking for a way to use up the last of my cocoa nibs, and when I saw this recipe at simplyrecipes.com, I knew I had found it. The combination of chocolate and lime strikes some people as odd, but they go together really well. The key, I think, is in the amount of [...]

I have a thing for whoopie pies. To me, they are a perfect snack. Little chocolate cakes sandwiched together with filling. Unfortunately, they are usually disappointingly not chocolatey and the filling is super sweet. But I just keep trying new recipes, hoping to find the perfect one. I snagged this recipe off the NY Times [...]

My new favorite bean soup that isn’t from the grains cookbook . . . I love bean soups, especially when the beans don’t come from a can. But I usually don’t have enough patience to soak my own beans, so I don’t cook bean soup very often. This recipe has me whistling a different tune, [...]

Obviously not from the whole grains book, but if you like broccoli, then MAKE THIS DISH! I loved vegetables growing up. In fact, all my siblings did, and it wasn’t hard for my parents to get us to eat them (except for my sister who hated peas and would swallow them whole instead of chewing [...]

Another detour from the grains cookbook. Deal with it. Part of my morning routine involves browsing food blogs and copying recipes that look really good. The fact that I will have to live to be 300 years old to try every recipe that I’ve copied doesn’t deter me in the least. One of those blogs [...]