Sep 20
With fall here and school open, for many there’s not only an adjustment to the day time schedule, but to the evening, and often the night time ones as well. More importance is given to extra-curricular activities, and now with reduced P.E. in many districts there’s a concerted effort to fit sports programs into after school hours, weekends and even evenings. Read more
Before starting this week’s posting I have some announcements to make. On Labor Day, September 2, my article; “Hello September” was featured on the new on-line food magazine The Bwyd (thebwyd.com). Read more
A friend, who’s a really savvy cook, read me the riot act, via email, right after last week’s posting appeared. Quite rightly, he pointed out that I had confused sauces identity by incorrectly lumping them with gravies. Read more
Those of you who read last week’s blog on sauce recipes will have realized that sauces, in their classic forms, can be tricky, time consuming, possibly expensive, to make and certainly no friend to any type of diet. Read more
If I were asked to define a sauce, I would say that it is a fluid which accompanies other ingredients enhancing the flavor and/or texture of the finished dish with which it is served. Read more
Lately the Mediterranean Diet is very popular and highly recommended. Correctly titled, it’s not actually “The Mediterranean Diet” but rather “A Mediterranean Style Diet” because this is not a calculated, calibrated formula for eating specific items over a given time to achieve a set goal. Read more
When I was writing last week’s posting, I was so preoccupied with the prospect of rising meat prices and discussing possible ways to cope with the problem, that I ignored my surroundings. Read more
Sometimes it doesn’t feel good to be right. In fact, at times you’d rather be wrong and this is one of them for me. For nearly a year, I’ve been reporting predictions that meat, especially beef prices, were going to continue to go up. Just a few weeks ago, I warned that the usual pattern was to see them rise right after a holiday. Read more
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