Archive for December, 2009

Fun With Salad December 14, 2009 1 Comment


I read recently that your dinner plate is “supposed” to contain only 1/4 meat, 1/4 starchy stuff and then all the rest is vegetables.  Or something like that.  Maybe it was exactly one bite of meat followed by three pounds of vegetables.
At any rate, the ratio was interesting to consider, since many of the meals I make for my family are usually super meat-happy.  [...]

Butternut Squash Arancini December 4, 2009 4 Comments

Butternut Squash Arancini

Unbelievable! I wrote this post on the evening of November 24.  I was looking for this recipe on my site and couldn’t find it…sure enough, there it was in “drafts” rather than “published.”  Was it that late at night when I wrote this?  Anyway, here is the post:
Arancini (risotto fritters),  translates from Italian as “little oranges,” [...]