Huh? Did I hear you asking for more bread photos? Sure, sure, here we go.  I have been going nuts in the bread department the last couple of weeks.  You know, in my world that means — my cookbook library just got larger by five (5!) books — all about bread making.  There’s gotta be […]

Everyone has seen the movie Ratatouille a few years back and applauded the gorgeous layered vegetable dish the little rodent protagonist concocted to sweep a picky food critic off his feet.  I am sure that some of you already know that the dish featured in the cute animated film was actually not a ratatouille, but […]

Ages ago, when we had almost unlimited time on our hands and the living was easy, a friend suggested this recipe to me as “quick and simple, but very impressive”.  I trusted her awesome baking skills and made an attempt at one first chance I got — someone’s birthday was just around the corner, and […]

When it comes to doing chores in our household, we have an almost clean-cut separation between my husband’s duties and mine.  While mail sorting and taking the trash out is a gray area even now, after being together for twelve years, we had established from the very start that he doesn’t cook, and I don’t […]

Periodically I find myself taking stock of my pantry content and come to realization that my stocking abilities are quite lame. I find things in there you wouldn’t believe.  Surely, living (in my past life) close to one of the best places to shop for groceries — Dekalb Farmer’s Market in Atlanta — was to […]

Initially, I was just going to repost an older recipe, along with a nostalgic essay I did on stuffed peppers called Pepperfest.  When I checked the aforementioned post, I realized that the recipe has changed considerably and it might be worth sharing separately.  Not to mention, the pictures turned out quite alright.

Don’t you just love it when certain things come together in time and space to make your life easier?  Better yet, don’t you just love it when certain seemingly negative things coincide in time and space, and when combined yield a resolutely positive outcome? Well I do, indeed.  And here is why. Enter the seemingly […]