Child’s Play — Cooking Alinea
Theo, 5, and James, 9, cook a recipe from the Alinea cookbook.  The recipe is pheasants with shallots, cider gel, birch, and oak leaves.  The Alinea cookbook is a molecular gastronomy book.  Molecular Gastronomy combines high tech science and cooking, made famous by chefs like Grant Achatz.   It seems a [...]

Hawaiian Stove Top Dish- 1/4 to 1/2 small bell pepper, sliced, for each diner
- 2 pineapple rings (or a similar amount of fresh pineapple), chopped into bite sized pieces, for each dinner
- 2 ounces chicken, ham, Polish sausage, firm tofu, or sliced beef for each dinner
- 1 tsp. soy sauce or tamari, or to taste
- [...]

Looking for a quick, easy dinner that won’t break your budget and is healthier than fast food? Try a French bread pizza.

These are absolutely delectable and elegant; great for fancy dinners when you want a side dish to impress your guests.

Food is, of course, the most basic of our needs beyond water and air (and toilet paper!). Isn’t it funny how we take these simple things for granted? You breathe in and out, you pull on the roll, you turn on the tap, you pop a Lean Cuisine into the microwave, or answer, “Yes”, to “Fries with that?” Easy, automatic, instant. But of course, it’s not. All of these things, with the exception of air, require a complicated combination of infrastructure and workforce to get to us. We only think about it when the system breaks down (imagine a toilet paper factory worker’s strike!), or when we pay our bills.

One-dish harvest stovetop recipeThis is one of those great recipes that I made up on the spur of the moment to use up ingredients I had on hand. Hope you like it. A great way to use up Thanksgiving leftovers. 1 medium cooking apple (use golden delicious if you have to. Or [...]

20 Minutes to Dinner by Bryanna Clark GroganThe subtitle for this book is Quick, Low-fat, Low-Calorie, Vegetarian Meals. And it should be noted that they are also vegan: no eggs, no milk, cheese, butter, or other dairy, and of course, no other animal products. Most of her recipes include some kind of tofu, or other [...]