My girlfriend Shawna just posted on Facebook, Peanut Butter and Butter. I happen to love this, as a kid I would never eat peanut butter and jelly, it had to be butter. In my Snoopy lunch box, with grape juice in my thermos. On a road trip. To this day, I love it. There is… Continue reading Peanut Butter Love
Julia Child was asked about eating healthy and maintaining weight.This list is from the American Institute of Wine and Food, co-founded by Julia Child: ModerationSmall HelpingsA Great Variety of FoodsNo SnackingWeight WatchingSensible ExerciseHave A Good Time! I think this is the list to live by. It very simply says, no bags, no boxes, don’t obsess and eat… Continue reading Weight Watching
Time. Time is the difference between a wannabe and a pro. A pro will relish the time and create the time to do the extra work involved, to know more and be more, to be more knowledgeable and at ease with the subject at hand. Whereas, the wannabe will take every short cut they can find… Continue reading Effortless?
I love English cooking. Growing up, living in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica, I was taken to the Tudor House as a child and am still in love with the little shop on 2nd Street. I have to go every once in a while and get my necessities: McVities milk chocolate biscuits, an Empire… Continue reading Cottage Pie…Royally
I love that Rachel Ray has dog treat recipes in her magazine. In my patisserie and baking book from culinary school, the author/chef has a recipe for dog treats in the very beginning of the book. I have been making my little dog, Duke’s, dog food for years, it’s super easy and I find he’s satisfied with less food. His habit is… Continue reading Easy Dog Food
Have you ever read in a recipe “Correct” Seasoning? I love to see this because it simply means taste what you’re cooking and see if you like it. Add more of this or that and see if that makes it taste good for ‘You’. Just because a recipe calls for a certain ingredient does not… Continue reading "Correct" Seasoning
It is not possible to have a perfect life; but it is possible to have a life I love. For this way of thinking, I look at life this way: To be more than I was yesterday and less than I will be tomorrow. I love to cook, I love to eat and I love… Continue reading Time for Reflection
Yep, I felt blah. Energy-less. Not motivated. Blue, but not dark blue. So, I made lentils. I have written about lentils before. They are, absolutely, my all time favorite economical and tasty meal. Extremely nutritious, lentils contain high levels of protein and are a good source of iron. Along with, fiber, folate, B1 and minerals. Lentils are… Continue reading Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Whenever I see my bottle of Angostura bitters in my kitchen, I see home. I feel my grandmothers presence in my kitchen. To open the bottle and smell the aromatics, lifts me. There are many things in my home that make me feel home as I knew it growing up with her, but there is something… Continue reading A Bitters Moment
I have different size coolers: a small one, a medium sized one and small insulated ones I use for lunch. When I was a figure skater it was common to see skaters that skated the early morning sessions carrying their coolers and their skates on a wooden rack into the ice rink at 5:15 in the… Continue reading Buy A Cooler
Mise en place. Everything in place. Thinking ahead to the next meal or the next day. Cleaning vegetables; washing lettuce and spinning it; washing herbs. Cubing the butter for the biscuits. Measuring flour and other dry ingredients for a loaf bread or a cake. I find this kind of thinking ahead takes a bit of the… Continue reading Preparation
Yesterday my son was in a construction accident; he was cutting tubing with a grinder and it caught, flew up and hit him in the face. He called me and very calmly said he didn’t have that good of a day, proceeding to tell me that he spent the day in the ER and had 42… Continue reading Safety First
I consider myself to be a tireless advocate of the kitchen. The more I go, the more I learn and believe in what I’m talking about. I truly believe we can elevate our quality of life by taking the time to prepare home cooked meals with whole ingredients from scratch. By doing this we encourage diginity and ground… Continue reading Character and Integrity
The combination of chopped onion, carrots and celery that is the base for sauces, soups, stews and stocks; sometimes referred to as aromatics. The heavenly smell that gets the senses flowing as it sautees in butter or olive oil. In Cajun cooking onion, bell pepper and celery are known as the Holy Trinity. A lot of… Continue reading Mirepoix
Inspired Home Cooking 