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Filed under: Grains, Recipes, Newspapers Farro (emmer wheat) and spelt are not the same thing, as this New York Times essay amusingly points out. While farro cooks like pasta, high-protein spelt needs waaaay more time and love to become edible. So what is spelt, that oft-mocked hippie grain, good for? Apparently those brick-like 1970s ''health ...

Filed under: Grains, Recipes, Books, Soups/Salads I have worked my way through Amanda Hesser's Cooking for Mr. Latte more than five times. Each time I read it, I dog ear a few more recipes that I think would be good to try. A couple of weeks ago, I had some friends over for dinner and while most of it was potluck, I took responsibility for the ...

Filed under: Breakfast, Grains, Recipes, Baking Next week I'm starting a new job that requires that I actually leave my house in order to do the work. It's going to force me to change my routine fairly significantly and one of the things I'm going to have to do is get a whole lot more organized about food. I've never been good about making time ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, Grains, Vegetables, Dairy, Recipes, Baking, Eggs, Condiments, America, Comfort Food It's no secret that I have all kinds of contempt for Sandra Lee. I won't go into my usual rant about how weird it is that her Chanel-quilted headband always matches her too-tight cashmere deep V-neck sweater, matches the drapes ...

Filed under: Grains, Recipes, Comfort Food, Super Bowl XLII So this day is dedicated to food that is served in bowls (bowls...Super Bowl...get it? Ha!), and what is the ultimate bowl food? That's right, cereal! I had planned to do a series of posts where I mix two different kinds of cereal and then review how they taste together. But I forgot to ...

Filed under: Grains, Recipes, Magazines, Super Bowl XLII Mmmmm....cornbread. It's one of those foods that I absolutely love but I just don't make for some reason. I think I get into these ruts where I don't want to haul out all the mixing bowls and ingredients and bake. Since we're doing healthy Super Bowl recipes today, I thought this would be ...

Filed under: Grains, Recipes, Holidays One of my goals this year is to eat more oatmeal, so I'd like to thank the Official Food Holiday Naming Gods for making the very first month of the year National Oatmeal Month. Quaker has a bunch of great recipes, including Banana Bread Oatmeal and Berry Almond Crumble. Alton Brown has a couple of recipes, ...

Filed under: Grains, Recipes, New Year's About a week and a half ago, I wrote a post about my mother's hunt for a yeasted lemon bread recipe. It was one that a neighbor used to make to ensure a prosperous New Year and while she had gotten the recipe from that neighbor, in the intervening 35 years, it had disappeared. Lucky for us, several of you ...

Filed under: Dessert, Grains, Nuts/seeds, Recipes, Candy, Baking, How To, Spices, Sugar, Christmas We're a little behind on our a Cookie-a-Day, but we'll try to catch up before the end of the year. We have to! Starting on January 1, all of us will be forgoing cookies, candy, doughnuts, and cake, as per our New Year's Resolutions, ...

Filed under: Grains, Dairy, Nuts/seeds, Chocolate, Recipes, Baking, Eggs, America, Sugar, Christmas Let's not get all crazy technical here by telling us that a brownie isn't a cookie. We already got all kinds of heat about dictionary definitions, etc when we told the lucky recipients that they were receiving the results of our cookie-baking chaos. ...