Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I’m 30 and I just tried my first fresh fig. There were so many things I didn’t know when Karina put a bowl of figs in front of me after her Rosh Hashanah dinner. Can you eat them fresh or only dried? Can you eat the skin? Are there pits? Turns out, yes, you can…
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Matt put me in charge of apps for Rosh Hashanah dinner so I started by making prosciutto, arugula, and blue cheese bundles. It was such an easy app to throw together that I decided to make something else, too. These Old Bay peanuts are also ridiculously simple to make and are the perfect bar snack.…
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There is such a thing as the American Cheese Society (ACS). I don’t know exactly what that entails, but I know it is made for me. Because I am a cheese-o-phile, I get regular emails from cheese mecca, Murray’s. Yesterdy, they sent an email announcing the ACS 2015 award winners. I was happy to see…
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Like any good Lowcountry gal, I love my pimento cheese, particularly on a sandwich made with white bread. Sigh. That takes me back. But last week when I made a batch, I wanted to try something a little different. In a very simple recipe that is perfectly adorable for snacking, I stuffed halved mini bell…
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Food Network Magazine had a mini “Family and Kids” mag in the back of a recent issue. In this section, they reinvented ants on a log, the classic after school snack of celery sticks filled with peanut butter and topped with raisins. I’m pretty sure this article was all about sneaking veggies into your kid’s…
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When it came to cooking for my last book club meeting, I just wasn’t havin it. Oddly enough, I wasn’t even that busy; I just didn’t want to tie myself down to preparing a specific travel-well recipe for a group. My solution was to open up one of my “easy” cookbooks. Every recipe in this…
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This might be the healthiest snack you can make and still be satisfied. It tastes so good but it’s one of those things where you’re practically burning more calories by chewing than you’re ingesting. Just combine avocado and drained white beans in a food processor with olive oil, salt, and red pepper flakes to taste.…
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If I’m just snacking, I like to use pita bread (instead of flatbread because this is healthier, especially if you use whole wheat pita) to make a little open faced sandwich. When you split the pita in half (basically, just take the hole and open it further til you have two rounds) it’s just filling…
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After my curried yogurt with beet and sweet potato chip post, I decided there was a hole in my food blogging. I post big dishes all the time but I rarely ever write about snacks. We all indulge in ‘tween the meal munching but there’s usually little variation. I, myself, am partial to white cheddar Pirate’s…
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I’ve been in a snack rut lately. Every time I reach for something to munch on between meals I’ve ended up with popcorn or hummus. I wanted something new so I did some googling and found a list of quick and healthy snacks on realsimple.com and found this winner. Just mix fat free Greek yogurt…
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Peaches to Apples 