I absolutely love pasta. Pasta Night happens weekly at my house, and it is one of my favourite nights of the week. For one thing, pasta is quick and easy to prepare, and for another, everyone in my family loves it. You just cannot get better than that!
I went on a fabulous beach vacation over spring break and now my pants don't fit. The button on my jeans is protesting my overconsumption of beer and "hey, it's vacation!" tortilla chips and chocolate treats.
Have you heard the buzz that lemon is expected to be the "flavour of the year" for 2014? Lemons add refreshing zest and flavour to recipes, like a burst of sunshine on dark winter days. Lemons are also detoxifying and naturally cleansing, which is good news to those of us who may have spent December eating and drinking like debauched Roman emperors.
Simon and Schuster sent me a copy of the new cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld, who is famous for her Deceptively Delicious cookbook, as well as for being Mrs. Jerry Seinfeld. The Can’t Cook Book is aimed at people who are inexperienced in the kitchen and are, in Seinfeld’s words “Absolutely Terrified.”.
Question: when a person has fifteen pounds of tomatoes at her disposal, and she's made salsa and salads and even more salads and she still has a largesse of tomatoes that are rapidly becoming very, very ripe,
Sometimes, on a chilly, rainy day I get a craving for comfort food, and what could be more comforting than a big bowl of pasta with cream sauce? The problem is that cream sauce leaves me feeling bloated, heavy, and lethargic.
The solution? A sauce made from avocado that delivers the creaminess I am craving, in addition to the vitamins, fibre, potassium, and good fats that my body is craving. All that in less than fifteen minutes flat!
