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Tweet Maybe it’s my Jewish grandmother, but I’ve always loved a good smoked fish. Lox on a bagel is pretty much my idea of heaven, and I can inhale the smoked whitefish spread that’s sometimes sold at CostCo. This week I wanted to share this incredible salad – it’s one of the the only restaurant-worthys [...]
Tweet We love making homemade pasta, especially this time of year. I would never make fresh pasta with a red sauce or anything with a strong flavor. Instead, I rely on spring vegetables – their perfect lightness doesn’t overwhelm the fresh noodles. We usually make pasta on Sunday afternoons when the whole family is around. [...]
Tweet I’m sure I don’t have to remind any of our readers that this week was Administrative Professionals Week. I look forward to this week all year. While I am not, in fact, an administrative professional, I get to reap the benefits. That’s because every April my colleague Leanne makes The World’s Greatest Cinnamon Rolls [...]
Tweet I’ve always had a love affair with boozy milkshakes. Along with reubens and huevos rancheros, it’s an item I absolutely must order when it’s on a menu. It reminds me of olden-timey days when life was more fun and people didn’t worry about little things like “health.” Of course, since you shouldn’t drink while [...]
Tweet Nice weather means it’s grilling season again, and although I am strangely intimidated by the grill, there is one grilled meal that I just can’t get enough of: fish tacos. This recipe was inspired by some distant relatives of mine who live in Mexico, the country. They are not to be confused with my [...]
Tweet Does anyone own a time machine that we can borrow? Our daughter turns 2 on Monday and I wouldn’t mind placing life on hold for a minute. Last year she was crawling and saying just a few words. Today she’s running, and talking and singing nonstop. I can hardly believe how much she’s grown [...]
Tweet For my money, it doesn’t get any better than an egg sandwich. Crispy, gooey, cheesy – this is one of my favorite meals morning, noon, or night. But until recently, I didn’t have a good creation system down for this bad boy. The problem was getting the egg cooked, the cheese melted, and the [...]
Tweet I love St. Patrick’s Day. Not for any of the usual reasons (getting drunk on green beer is not my thing), but because it gives me an excuse to make one of my all-time favorite meals: corned beef and cabbage. My mother’s family was Irish, so this was a very traditional meal growing up [...]
Tweet Donuts are pretty much my favorite food in the world. I am happy we live near John’s Space Age Donuts in Overland Park, but even happier that we don’t live too close. My addiction got pretty bad for a while, so we decided to limit our donut intake to 2 every 3 weeks. So [...]
Tweet As I mentioned last week, on Saturday the mister and I celebrated six years of matrimony. The celebration itself wasn’t much (Minsky’s and a movie on the couch), but Jay’s gift to me ensured it will be an anniversary to remember. From now on anything before February 25, 2012, will be known as B.V.: [...]
Tweet This Saturday marks 6 years of happy marriage for the mister and me. We wed in a little chapel, then danced the night away at the Maritime Museum in San Francisco (where we were living at the time). We had a fabulous evening. We loved our deejay (my brother), the atmosphere of the museum [...]
Tweet Every so often my husband will make something amazing for dinner. Crispy, salty, juicy and flavorful, we pick at the leftovers and use them in different dishes all week. This meal is cheap, healthy, and really easy. So what is it? A simple roast chicken. He makes it a few times a year and [...]
Tweet I consider myself to be a romantic, but lately Valentine’s Day has lost its luster. Even if we could find a sitter, the preponderance of low-quality prix-fixe restaurant meals just isn’t appealing. And I was surprised last year when I couldn’t even find a restaurant to get take-out (we ended up getting soup from [...]
Tweet Like any true fan (of food) the thing I look forward to most in a Super Bowl party is what I am going to eat. Wings and guacamole always top my list, as do most other things that complement beer. But the thing I always make for others is Frito Pie. It’s one of [...]
Tweet Matt Branstetter hasn’t been with Salty Iguana Mexican Restaurant since it replaced Granny’s Chicken at Corinth Square 20 years ago — but not too many people have been around longer. Branstetter started as a cook in 1997, a year after graduating from SM East, and has done just about every job the restaurant has to [...]
Tweet Maybe it’s the doldrums of January, but I just have not felt like cooking lately. Nevertheless, the family needs to get fed (so annoying how that never changes), and take-out every night isn’t really an option. To get by I’ve been putting together semi-plausible meals using pre-made ingredients. One of my favorites is wonton [...]
Tweet There are still two showings left for Bye, Bye Birdie, SM East’s 2012 musical. A matinee starts today at 2 p.m. with an evening showing at 7 p.m. The crowd was loving last night’s performance in the Dan Zollars Auditorium at SM East:
Tweet I think I need to stop going to the gym. It has not been good for my waist line. You see, every time I get on the treadmill, I turn on the Food Network. And every time I turn on the Food Network, I see an amazing dish that I need to cook and [...]
Tweet Blonde brownies are one of my favorite treats. When we were in the Peace Corps and living on just a few dollars a day, I would occassionally spend our weeks’ allowance on butter and chocolate chips just to make blondies that would be gone in a day. But now that we’re in Prairie Village, [...]
Tweet Many years ago we visited our friend Dan Giorgi’s parents’ house in Leawood to watch a football game. I don’t remember which teams were playing, or who was there, or what was said. But I will never forget the tortilla soup that Dan’s mom served us. It’s a delicious hodgepodge of ingredients and enriched [...]
Tweet One of my favorite meals of the holiday season is Christmas morning brunch. I love a good brunch, and I wish I had more excuses to incorporate it into my everyday life. Alas, Christmas day seems to be one of the only times where brunch is a real meal option (it’s the perfect break [...]
Tweet I adore my mother-in-law. Marilyn Senter is smart, funny, beautiful and incredibly generous. I could go on and on about how much I love her, and about the amazing things she has done for us over the years (thanks again for watching our dog while we were in the Peace Corps!). But one of the [...]
Tweet I’m sure I’m not the only person to have been suckered into believing that I can complete one of Rachael Ray’s dishes in 30 minutes or less. An hour after I started I’m still putting the finishing touches on her Creamy Spaghetti and Beans. That’s okay – I’ve made this recipe many times before, [...]
Tweet Our wonderful post-Thanksgiving glow dimmed on Monday night when we awoke to someone breaking into our car. Luckily, we eventually found out that the robber got spooked and dumped all the goods into our neighbor’s yard. Still, theft has been on my mind. So I decided to steal this recipe from my sister-in-law’s family. [...]
Tweet Turkey Day is coming, and many of us will be spending some serious hours in the kitchen this coming week. Our Thanksgiving is usually a little different due to the vegetarians in my family, as well as others who just don’t care for turkey. I’ve always tried to come up with some type of [...]
