Spiced Quinoa Timbales with Avocado-Orange Spinach Salad
Posted by Ari in Balanced Eating, Food History, Main Dishes, Quick & Easy, Side Dishes, Work Lunches on Apr 13th, 2009 | 49 Comments
Passover is in full swing and if you’re anything like me you’re getting mighty creative with your menu this week. Anything derived from the five major grains, plus rice and beans, are still off limits… which is problematic when your favorite pastime is baking and you love eating pasta....
Rustic Sweet Potato Muffins with Fresh Sage
A Taste of Yellow
10 Questions with Dorie Greenspan
Split-Pea Burgers with Jalapeño Home Fries (or Caramelized Plantains)
Red Wine Pasta & Moroccan Phyllo Cigars
Posted by Ari in Food History, Main Dishes, Quick & Easy, Side Dishes on Dec 18th, 2006 | 41 Comments
“I’ve met a lot of people while traveling. I’ve even encountered myself.”
I’m leaving for Israel on Wednesday morning so this will likely be my last post until I return in mid January. I’ve added a little countdown script to the sidebar so that my husband, family (and...
Easy (Cheesy!) Spinach Casserole + Lemon Herb Bread
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
