Last week’s bonus was a Sponge Cake recipe, and I hope you all still have it!  It’s key for the Tiramisu recipe this week.  And in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we’re going to see a fair amount of green this week, using lettuces and spinach.  The lettuce won’t be just in salad.  If we use things like kale and other greens in soup, why not lettuce?  We’ll also deconstruct the typical corned beef and cabbage St. Patrick’s meal by doing the corned beef in Cream of Ruben Soup, and the cabbage in a slow-cooked Savory Pork with Cabbage.  Other meals on [...]

Although half of the U.S. and Canada are in the grip of winter storms as I put this together, Spring can’t be far away!  It’s supposed to be warming up later this week, to almost “double” the temperatures we were seeing just two weeks ago: instead of highs in the low twenties, they’re supposed to be in the low forties.  Not swimsuit whether yet, but it makes me think that asparagus time will soon be here! My friend Katie on the French Atlantic coast tells me it’s starting to get warmer there. I’m ready to be done with the white stuff.  So I’m doing fewer soups than I’ve been [...]

This year Valentine’s Day falls on Tuesday, but I doubt too many people will want to celebrate right on the holiday when there’s a handy weekend so close by!  So we’ll put the Valentine’s Day meal on Sunday, but you can move it to whichever day you’re celebrating it. There’s also a nice meal for the day itself, if restaurants near you aren’t offering a can’t-pass-up special on Tuesday that you can actually eat.  I’ve also included two different desserts this week: the classic French Couer a la Creme with Strawberry Sauce, and a chocolate-crusted Mock Kahlua Cheesecake.  For the [...]

Anyone missing summer? It’s been grey here.  But I’m getting in the mood for summery food, as the Super Bowl comes to my town of Indianapolis!  So we’ll be starting the week with a fun burger recipe! We’ll do it on the stovetop.  We’ll spend some time in Morocco, India, Italy and Mexico this week.  A new ingredient I just found out is probably safe for those with blood sugar problems: Mexican-style hominy!  It’s the healthiest way to have corn despite that. Mexican-style hominy is soaked in lye water, as the natives in the Americas have done for centuries.  It [...]

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We have something special this week: Sauerbraten!  It needs to marinate for several days, so you might want to stick it in the marinade just as soon as you get the beef home.  We’re going to do something interesting with the leftovers later in the week. [...]