Medieval Cooking

There are entire lists of great reasons to eat locally, which is why I’m not going to re-iterate them here. The fact remains that the mainstream still looks at the Locavore diet to be kind of a Treehugging-Granola- Lefty-Green thing to do, which is where our President enters the picture.
Okay, I admit that it’s still [...]

I know that discussing HFCS in public breaks the ‘no politics or religion’ rule. I break that rule regularly, so here I go again: I am very much against the use of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in foods. Frankly, I have significant issues with the amount of sugar that Americans consume in general, from [...]

Note: This is a series of vignettes based on Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
For the last six months she had been looking for an apartment in Seattle but was too scared to do anything about it. Things were bad. Really bad. There wasn’t a decision that would yield happy [...]

Note: This is a series of vignettes based on Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
She stubbed out her cigarette in the china plate she kept expressly for that purpose. The cramped apartment, filled with the remnants of her failed marriage, spoke volumes of her situation. Sadness still clung to her, [...]

These desserts are rich in anti-oxidants and provide a nice sweet and sour finish to a seasonal menu for autumn. 
6 individual puff pastry cups, baked with the tops removed.
6 oz. neufchatel cheese, cut into 1 oz cubes
1 1/4 c cooked cranberries
6 T dried blueberries
12 walnut halves
5 minutes to prep.
10 minutes to cook. 
This makes six individual [...]