Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Recipes, Food Oddities, America, Comfort Food, Retro cookery Recently, as I was dipping through a copy of my family cookbook in search of one of my mother's favorite recipes, I took a good, long look at the book itself. In addition to being a nice resource, it is also so...

. I promised you a story about this chocolate cheesecake which I made last week for my Joshua's 17th birthday. He asked for a chocolate cheesecake, and this recipe is really a very decadent, but easy cheesecake. It doesn't take long to put together, and, under normal circumstances, is a very pretty,...

Yesterday's birthday boy requested, for his birthday dinner, crab cakes, garlic mashed potatoes and salad. Pretty easy supper, but not cheap. I swallowed my inner cheapskate and hardly looked at the price. Well, it was less expensive than dinner out, at least a nice dinner out. The recipe I use for ...

Did y'all know that Dr. B is giving up the blog-posting for Lent? Yea. She even started early because of the implicit competition that is always running here at Casa de Bitch about who is the best Catholic. Not willing to be bested by such a strategy, I have decided, after much meditation about maxi...

Filed under: How To Here at Slashfood, we've offered a handful of posts on cooking and seasoning your cast iron pans. The popular way is to scrub it, lather it, and bake it upside down. But even if you get that great initial seasoning, do you have a hard time keeping it? When I seasoned my large cas...

After I had my first child, I had a great deal on my mind. My new daughter needed surgeries and extra medical care early in her life. This was a huge adjustment for me and my husband. She needed so much so often, when could I rest? The thought of returning to work was looming in my mind. All of this...

After I had my first child, I had a great deal on my mind. My new daughter needed surgeries and extra medical care early in her life. This was a huge adjustment for me and my husband. She needed so much so often, when could I rest? The thought of returning to work was looming in my mind. All of this...

It's been a while since I've made a "use your allusion" post. I hope to start doing more of my regular posts here soon, but it's been a busy year so far in 2009. I just saw an expression used that I thought was rather humorous. The expressions is, "they treated us like mushrooms." The meaning is, "t...

Two research articles were recently published that shed more light on the so-called “Internet addiction”, a concept we’ve long lampooned here due to its continuing lack of scientific validity. The first study (Dowling & Quirk, 2008) looked at one of the common measures of R...

Everyone has experienced it - tummy upsets that cause vomiting and diarrhea. When we have it, we endure and sleep it off. When our pets have it - we wring our hands in misery, because it's so hard to know what to do. Naturally, if any tummy upset or other strange behavior lasts very long (my limit i...