I'm Not Julia Child

By RosarioVanTulpe [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons Today, for lunch, I finally tried a basturma sandwich. Basturma is an Armenia...

Every time a recipe calls for green bell peppers, I groan.  Because, these days, cultivated green bell peppers are pretty horrible:  rubbery...

One of my favorite things to eat is a type of pancake made with mung beans called bindae duk. But the problem with making this at home is ...

Today I really had a craving for macaroni and cheese.  Usually I do the whole thing myself, make the béchamel sauce, grate the cheese, etc. ...

When I found out that one of my favorite restaurants, BLD, has an on-going Twitter contest for free food, I knew I had to enter.  I really l...

 (These are peach blossoms.) While shopping at Whole Foods, I was caught by that wonderful floral smell of ripening peaches and ended up bu...

Today, I really wanted to make hamburgers for lunch.  Unfortunately, we didn't have any buns.  I thought about making a quick trip to t...