My refrigerator door is not pretty. Instead of an enticing array of chilled beverages, our limited door space is seriously overloaded with condiments. It sometimes seems like kitchen clutter, but it’s not. Aside from a few duplicate bottles of hot sauce (which I’m “marrying” like we used to do to the ketchup at Swenson’s), there isn’t anything in there I don’t use on a fairly regular basis.
Like about 75% of the women in America, I’m in a book club. Still, I like to think our book club, which started in 1998, was an original idea at the time. And, unlike some book clubs that meet at restaurants or for drinks after dinner, ours has always been a de facto supper club, too. Whoever is hosting that month’s gathering makes dinner for the group; the rest of
Every year in May, I plant basil because I love it so much. And every year in May, I also apparently forget that basil grows like kudzu. Which leads to planting way too much for one family to consume with the occasional marinara and salad caprese. So every year in June, I make pesto — lots and lots of pesto.
If you
They live on a volcanic island just outside the Arctic Circle, but Icelanders as a group are some of the happiest (despite some long, dark winter months and the pesky economic collapse their country recently experienced) and healthiest (they have an average lifespan of 81, one of the longest anywhere) people on earth. I’m sure part of this can be attributed to living in a singularly beautiful place, year-round
Latest shocker in the news: Foods advertised on television are bad for you.
I think we already knew this, right? But now it’s official. According to a recent study, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, the foods advertised on TV fail to meet nutrition guidelines and create a serious nutritional imbalance. Together, these foods supply 2,560%
To me, summer feels like it’s really, finally here when the market is overflowing with tomatoes that actually look like tomatoes — instead of those artificially shiny orange balls we seem to get all winter. When the tomatoes are plump and gorgeous like they are now, I know it’s time to make my all-time favorite Summer Tomato Sauce.
Full disclosure: I actually don’t like plain, raw tomatoes and rarely
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