I grew up with gazpacho that was served without pureeing, big mouthfuls of fresh garden vegetables in a red wine vinegar broth studded with droplets of olive oil. It was only a few years ago that I learned that the traditional way to serve gazpacho is well-blended, with small chunks of vegetables but nothing identifiable… [click for recipe and more]
Jeez. We’ve been eating pretty healthy here on the blog over the past few weeks, huh? It’s great. I love healthy food and I love how it makes me feel. But sometimes you need dessert. There is something so immeasurably important about sitting down and just having a freaking cookie sometimes. Everything, even the best… [click for recipe and more]
I had a long debate in my head about whether I was going to share this “recipe,” such as it is. It went a little something like this: Julie’s Brain: Dude, seriously? There’s like a hundred variations of this already on the interwebs. You’re really going to clog up the pipes with yet another one? Another… [click for recipe and more]
Yesterday on my way to work, an SUV with the license plate “LIV SLO” blew by me on the right going about 85 mph. In a 50 mph zone. Memo to Alanis Morrissette: that is ironic. Rain on your wedding day and traffic jams when you’re already late? Those things just suck (and yes, the lack… [click for recipe and more]
“A-rooooo-gula. It’s a VEG-E-TA-BLE.” I can’t so much as think about arugula without hearing Steve Martin explaining to a supermarket full of people he sees as bumpkins what “a-ROOOOO-gula” is. In “My Blue Heaven,” Martin plays a mobster in witness protection in a much smaller town than he’s used to. In the famous supermarket scene,… [click for recipe and more]