When I was a small child, I was a very picky eater. I refused to eat most vegetables, cold cheese, cold cuts, condiments, anything that smelled even faintly of vinegar, and anything saucy–other than chocolate sauce or spaghetti sauce. Perhaps the category most reviled by my young palate was soup. I found the whole wan …
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After spending nine years, most of my adult life, as a vegetarian, it’s still a little strange for me to base a dinner around meat. My cooking repertoire is made up of stir fries and grain salads and soups and pastas and frittatas and pizzas and all sorts of beans and lentils. These days, I …
What could be better than grilled cheese? It is one of the simplest most comforting meals I know. I subsisted on grilled cheese for most of my freshman year of college (let’s not talk about how much weight I gained that year….). It’s become more of a treat food than an everyday food now …
I was late to the pickle game. It wasn’t until my late twenties that I discovered the charms of these vinegary briny nuggets. Even now, I go for long stretches without eating anything pickled, and to be honest, classic dill pickles are fine, but they don’t do much for me. Dan, on the other hand, …