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Posts Tagged ‘Winter’

Handmade Spinach & Cheese Ravioli w/ Cream Sauce

On January 1, I considered making a traditional New Year’s Day meal. There are certainly enough food traditions revolving around that date. People believe that by eating anything from black-eyed peas and pork to soba and tangerines, they will have good luck in the coming year. However, I’m not particularly superstitious, nor do I like [...]

Lunch Ideas: Winter Salad

In general, I take lunch to work with me. My job doesn’t lend itself to going out to lunch very often. So I try to make my lunch break a true break. It’s nice to take time during the workday to relax and enjoy good food while catching up on blogs and Facebook or chatting [...]

Tasty Links: Lazy Winter Weekends Edition

Here in Columbus, there is a lot of snow on the ground. The temperatures have been consistently below freezing. It’s too cold to really enjoy any time spent outside. As a result, winter hibernation mode is seriously setting in. To me, this means lots of lazy weekends at home – reading blogs and books, playing [...]

Post-Christmas Wrap-Up Part II: Bruschetta 3 Ways

Sadly, we cannot live on cookies alone. This brings me to my other major Christmas food project. For Christmas dinner, Honey provides the basics – baked ham, vegetables and dinner rolls. Everyone else in the family brings different side dishes and appetizers. We lay everything out buffet-style. I always try to find something new, and [...]

Post-Christmas Wrap-Up Part I: Candy & Cookies

What does the holiday season mean, if not food? OK. Actually, it means a lot of other things. But this is a food blog, not a metaphysical, philosophical, or even particularly domestic one. Back in early November, I had intended to blog all of my holiday food adventures. Then I got super busy with work [...]