Here's a few recipes from MRS. ROWE'S LITTLE BOOK OF SOUTHERN PIE (Ten Speed Press, July, 2009) in celebration of National Banana Cream Pie Day. Enjoy! (At this point, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that you can pre-order the book at Amazon of Ten Speed.) Susan’s Banana Cream Pi...

This is such a cool little story. A friend of mine who lives in Scotland just went to Amsterdam for the weekend. She was there for a romantic weekend with her husband and to do book research. (Makes sense to me.) She sent me this picture because, well, it reminded her of me. See the "Pie Cafe&q...

Thursday evening my X had to go to be with his dying grandmother. As of this second, she is still holding on, but it won't be long. I've been at the house since then. Before I left, I packed up a bunch of food so I could do a bunch of cooking.. I forgot my camera, so these pics are old pics, but rep...

Superbowl Sunday is over! Do you know where your chicken wings are? Chances are, the answer is in your tummy- along with other traditional Superbowl goodies. Every year, American food bloggers start posting some of the most sinfully delicious recipes in the days leading up to the Superbowl. This yea...

Savory bread pudding with tomato, gruyere, Parmesan cheese, and Serrano ham.   My pal @VDog is always Twittering about making bread puddings for dinner and after she linked me to a recent NY Times article on what to do with leftover bread, I decided to make some mahseff. I made the savory one y...

Filed under: PepsiCo (PEP), S and P 500, Stocks to Buy This post is part of a series featuring bargain stocks that are worth a look now. See more Cheap Stocks . Full disclosure: in the Pepsi challenge, I prefer Coke. In terms of investments, though, I overwhelmingly prefer PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP). The s...

After learning that Pushing Daisies is canceled, I think we were all in need of a little comfort food. And this episode delivered. It might have been my favorite one this season. I think it was the hats. Olive and Ned in matching hats just takes the…uhm…cake. But I’m jumping ahead of mysel...

“Comfort Food” December 3rd, 2008 When I was watching this week’s special Monday episode of Privileged, it struck me that what I like about the show is how comfortable it feels: its storylines were rote, but the execution was such that it all felt like part of a longstanding relati...

It's WTSIM time again and this round's host, the inimitable Andrew of SpittoonExtra has set us a tough challenge... Indonesian food. Hang on - am I in the wrong movie or something? I re-read the rules and it states that we could include Malaysia at a pinch... phew! I have never travelled to the Far ...

. One of my goals this summer is to teach the two older boys how to cook -- learn some basic techniques and learn the language needed to cook from some basic recipes. Tonight was the first lesson. I'm teaching one at a time because, frankly, one in the kitchen is enough to try my patience. The oldes...