I wasn’t necessarily raised on transcendent biscuits, we had patacones and arepas instead. My mom, who is from Illinois and from a family of Illinois corn, soybean, and pig farmers who came from the hills of Kentucky ages ago (and I don’t know where before that), would talk about the delicious food her grandma cooked...

I apologize for not posting much this last week. Its been rather hectic! To broaden my photographic learning experience, I am the second shooter in a few weddings this summer with this fantastic guy Rob Brown, his site is Rob Brown Photography in case you need the friendliest wedding photographer in New England. I am...

I am continuing to explore low GI cooking that not only appeals to me but also must pass the very rigorous and often fickle family test. I like to cook with tofu but my 10 year old has decided she doesn’t like it while the rest of the family will eat it happily. When I...

(Bhutanese red rice onigiri with tofu and split pea puree, recipe towards the end of this post) Today’s post is going to have multiple personalities. I am going to cover three main topics: Low Glycemic Cooking and why I care A recipe for the Bhutanese red rice onigiri you see above A how-to on making...

  (This post will appear on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network)   Book review of Camilla V. Saulsbury‘s Panna Cotta: Italy’s Elegant Custard Made Easy I had never heard of panna cotta before I saw it made on Iron Chef a few years ago. I obviously do not frequent...

A couple of days ago, I did the “on black” shoot where some pears saw the light. Those pears were also part of our breakfast yesterday. I found some delightful Bob’s Red Mill buttermilk pancake mix I wanted to try out and it made some amazing pancakes. I sliced one Korean pear and two of...

(Chocolate Coconut Hedgie Cookies) I am a super bad mom, I really am. Once the caffeine hit the system this morning I jumped up and baked these cookies (the dough was in the fridge overnight). The bad part is that we essentially had these for breakfast. We are going to have a second course of...

Growing up, my mom would feed us homemade whole wheat bread and forbade sodas and sweets and junk foods of all types. We had our own garden (an acre plot in Iowa, anything would grow in that dirt) and we ate out of it in the summers. My mom grew up on a farm so...

[Sorry for the annoying copyright symbols on these images but there are too many people downloading and stealing these images. I am working on a downloadable for-a-fee document where you can get the whole "picture" and I do not lose all photo rights and revenue.] Arepa de huevo is a Colombian food that I remember...

There was a sense of manifest destiny around this dish when it came together for me the other day. I was coming off my seafood high from the International Boston Seafood Show, I had found some huge super jumbo raw shrimp on sale for $9.99/lb (thats good around here), and I had been hankering for...