I couldn’t resist picking up a pound of black eyed peas at the farmers market the other day. Only problem was that I didn’t have a clue what to do with them. I emailed a girlfriend who had once made a delicious black eyed pea New Year’s dish from a recipe she had found in […]
Recipes
Fresh herbed butter
Whether from a garden, the farmer’s market, or the local grocery, fresh herbs are a good buy as the summer herb harvest comes in. My neighbor gave me a sheaf of 3-foot-tall dill stems yesterday. The first thing I did was mince some and blend it into softened butter for a tangy twist on grilled […]
Pasta Salad
I was looking for a quick and easy recipe to throw together for dinner and remembered my old standby, cold pasta salad. Truthfully, cold pasta salad would never have occurred to me had I not spent a year in Italy living with two Italian-American cousins. They knew things about pasta that I had never conceived, […]
Effortless Eating’s 1-year anniversary
Hooray! It’s the 1-year anniversary of this blog! I didn’t even make it to the one-year mark breastfeeding my first child, so this is pretty cool. Thanks for sticking with me over the year and leaving comments, which make it all worthwhile. I hope this blog is as enjoyable for you to read as it […]
Mexican Rice
Cooking for Kids posted a quick and easy Mexican Rice recipe based on the Glorious One-Pot Meal cooking technique. Food writer Stephanie Gallagher took the basic concept of GOPM — using a cast iron Dutch oven inside an oven at 450F — and gave it a few tweaks such as stirring the ingredients and removing […]
