Remember when Thai pizza was everywhere in the 90’s? I had a few bad ones, then went retro and decided to only eat pepperoni pizza for several years. There were too many pizzerias going nuts with the flair, piling up lots of wet toppings on soggy crust and calling it fusion.
But last night I was [...]

I roasted a chicken the other night. For some reason, it took an absolute eternity in there. I turned up the oven, poked it with a thermometer, and my family was sitting at the table salivating. So we had soup instead (I know. The fact that I had an alternative around is sickening.) and I [...]

It wasn’t until last year that I really discovered chicken legs. There’s been so much focus on the breast the last decade. Chicken breasts, of course! I guess our cultural fascination extends to more than one species. Boneless, skinless chicken breasts are wonderful. (I know all you Food Inc. fans are shuddering right now.) They’re [...]

Have you been making this all these years and keeping it from me? Where have I been? Growing up, we hardly ever ate chicken, but occasionally we’d have this–plump chicken nestled in creamy, soft rice, so comforting you’d just want to climb in the pan and stay a child forever. But, alarmingly, I’ve never made [...]

Last night, I ate dinner in my car before a client meeting–10 triscuits with cheddar, a handful of almonds, clipboard in my lap. The night before that, dinner was 5 cubes of cheese and some dried-out radishes from a corporate veggie tray.  In snippets of home time, it’s been rice and beans, warmed from a [...]