After-Party Breakfast Smoothies

Yesterday we have borrowed a blender. I am planning to get a blender of my own someday, but somehow in all my moves, I have left my old and none-too-great blender behind, and never gotten around to buying the much-coveted (and more pricey) variety with a low glass bowl and a more powerful motor.  But one does not look a borrowed blender in the motor, … Continue reading After-Party Breakfast Smoothies

Strawberry Fields (Not Forever, Just For The Summer!)

Strawberries are in season. It is, in my not at all humble opinion, the only right time of year to eat them – whenever they are in season where/near where you live, that is.   Although the ones shipped from far away can still look pretty in mid-winter, they sadly tend to have no aroma, and with strawberries, aroma is everything.  If they don’t smell good, … Continue reading Strawberry Fields (Not Forever, Just For The Summer!)

For Hangovers And Otherwise – Baked Artichoke Dip

Although March is here,  and it is technically (or at least according to the theoretical calendar) a spring month, the snow outside remains untouched by melt (or not enough to matter, and it all froze up last night again anyway!), and so my mood for warm winter food continues – in the next instance with an utterly fantastic American-Italian dish of somewhat murky origins:  Artichoke … Continue reading For Hangovers And Otherwise – Baked Artichoke Dip