On Monday I had lunch at the Zin restaurant in Healdsburg. They have a very good pulled pork sandwich which just begs for a good bbq sauce. After I asked for something better than Tabasco, the waiter brought over a large plastic...

it. As I was reading (or trying to read) the Febuary issue, I thought to myself, this magazine has been Rachel Rayed: Similar font and cover page presentation, pull out meal planners, quick fixes for supper, doing taste tests and...

Re: Jamie At Home I’m very intrigued by the teaser spots that show Jamie pulling gorgeous (yellow!) home-grown carrots out of the ground and shaking the dirt off before heading into the kitchen. Now, that’s MY kind of...

. And I absolutely hate the Sugar Bean and Tea Leaf. Coffee with cheap Nestlé Quik in it. It’s diabetes in a cup, and it’s disgusting.

pollen Carrot Ginger soup with a crab and tarragon spring roll Tuna Tataki with sweet parsnips and a relish of dried black olives and muscovado sugar. Amazing food but still asian Fusion. In all fairness,he has the lattitude to do...

work and may have such expectations of their spouse when they marry. No judgment here, simply a fact. My hubby was one of them. Fortunately, I love to cook and take charge of meal planning, but he pulls his weight by helping w/...

, adapted from Antico Forno Roscioli, that seems to be nearly identical to what we had: no cheese. One thing is clear, whether you’re a purist or an iconoclast: pizza bianca is a simple dish. And, precisely for that reason, I...

there was some added sugar-y element). It was creamy. VI called this maybe the “finest dish in the house,” and he might be right, but I’m still glad it came in such a preciously small quantity (we all got a taste...

with powdered sugar were the highlight. They also sell a nice hot cross bun The gumbo and jambalaya were good, but I wouldn’t order them next year. Don’t like the pizza in general, so the crawfish pizza was my least...

I’ve had Fanny Farmer since I was 18 (also grew up with mom’s copy) and it’s my go-to cookbook for all the basics. How long to cook asparagus? Recipe for sugar cookies? Correct temperature for chicken?...

Seriously, have you ever seen that snack stuff that looks like dog food & you serve it in a new doggie bowl? It’s Chex, tossed in a melted mix of peanut butter & chocolate, then tossed in confectioner’s sugar....

inedible. A rhurbab cake of sorts was so foul it got one bite from each person and sat on the table. They’d forgotten the sugar in a soggy apple streudel. Why, then, would I go back? My wealthy uncle took me. It was equally...

with mosquito bites. We pull up; Abby gets into one line, BB and Limster into the other...Abby is calm, she does not seem overly excited...BB and Limster are squealing with joy, clapping their hands in anticipation, (I am not...

at the Cheesestore, is milder, creamier, whiter, and less salty than most blues. It works well with big reds from Southern France, and many Zinfandels. Yet take an over-ripe style or late-harvest Zin that has residual sugar, and...

My staples are Budweiser, and Miller High Life(I love the Miller High Life commercials where the delivery guys go into places,and pull the High Life off the shelves of the high brow restaurant,and market.), sometimes alot of...