One Saturday, in February, at 6:00 a.m., in Southern California, The Mister and I sat down close to the cash register and added up sales. Over $1400 in 30 minutes. People taking the kids to T-Ball and softball games. This was...

fried tetilla from AOC cauliflower soup at Clementine toro with sesame oil, salt, pepper, and nori (not too hard to come by, but some Japanese restaurants are bad about providing ccertain ingredients) ankimo at Kiriko salads at...

with groceries than we can afford to eat out at nicer restaurants on a more regular basis.

33 weeks pregnant here and I totally agree about everything in moderation. I have been eating sushi all along, but I do stick to the cooked stuff (California rolls really helped me out during morning sickness!). I’ve been...

Baking soda is even better at snuffling out fires. My weirdest was when we first moved to California from Georgia nearly 20 years ago and I decided to make a recipe for some weird thing called “pesto.” (C’mon, I...

with our little cakes and a cup of Illy decaf. Served on the good china, of course! I would so much rather stay home in comfort and enjoy cooking with him, than fight the hordes and noise in a restaurant on Valentine’s Day.

Their frozen soups. The frozen vegetables. The little 3-piece packets of chocolate. The restaurant style tortilla chips. The simpler pasta sauces. The 1-pound blocks of Plugra butter (rewrap in foil when you get home). The...

, the first time I met them, we went to a French restaurant where my MIL got the rich prix fixe meal and was flattened the next day by all the cream and butter. She didn’t seem to mind though... Since they are getting older...

a washington state or california riesling. Sip the wine “right over the food”, almost as a “sauce”... i.e. chew a bit of food and then splash a sip of wine right on it... It will increase your overall...

Joe—where do you find all this stuff??? The most interesting thing to me about the Pittsford store isn’t the store per se, it’s the “Tastings” restaurant next door, which is Wegmans shot at, as they...

, and the kumquats are starting to be good not sure if they are effected by the big california farming disaster that hit citrus, strawberries and salad greens

I am totally with you. And I will go to the same restaurant over and over and over and over again for like 2 or 3 months at a time. My addiction right now is to go to the local Asian grocery store and get a back of frozen...

used GOOD chorizo, it wouldn’t work. If you used excellent parmigiana cheese, it wouldn’t work. If you got the roll from Ecce Panis, it wouldn’t work. Fancy ingredients, like fancy restaurants, have their place,...

This is my first time to this site. We just moved to Sioux Falls from Southern California and I had a dream about our most all time favorite ice cream – Thrifty’s Double Chocolate Malted Crunch. So I went on line to...

Oh yeah, I remember Faygo from when I was growing up in St. Louis. Along with Shasta, which I think came from California, but Ozzie Smith was in the local commercials—"I want a pop, pop, pop—I want a Shasta."