Fall is here, meaning it’s time for apples and pumpkins. While those fruits lend themselves well to pies and cakes, sometimes I want something a little healthier. Last fall, I discovered this pumpkin muffin recipe from Kristen at Cheap, Healthy, Good. These muffins are high in fiber, low in calories and fat and taste good. [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Tasty Links: Coffee, Chicken Cakes & Carnivores
I follow several blogs, food-related and otherwise. This makes me a huge fan of Google Reader. It’s great since it puts the RSS feeds of all those blogs in one place and organizes them neatly by category. Here are some interesting food-related links that came up while I was perusing it today: AdAge (and most [...]
Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream
My coffee table is home to several magazines full of fall recipes that I can’t wait to make. My plan had been to try a couple over the weekend and review them here. Then I woke up with the flu on Saturday morning. This, of course, shot all my weekend plans, culinary and otherwise. The [...]
The French Loaf
One of the best things about moving to a new city is discovering fun new restaurants and shops. Yesterday, I found one. The French Loaf is located in downtown Grandview Heights in the same shopping plaza as Acorn Books. I’d driven past it several times and thought it was a deli or sandwich place. Yesterday, [...]
Coffee Pot Oatmeal
Good Eats is hands-down my favorite Food Network show. I love Alton Brown’s geeky, funny approach to cooking. Using blackboards, props, and scientific principles, he explains the science behind food prep instead of just telling viewers what to do. He usually has some pretty clever ideas too, like this one for making oatmeal in a [...]
Chiles Rellenos
When I was 17, I went to Mexico City with my Spanish class. I loved everything about it – the hotel overlooking the Zócalo, the pyramids, the sense of history, the colors, the energy and the food. While some of my classmates were happy with KFC, my mom I tried all sorts of new things. [...]
