After last year’s unfortunate Halloween candy bender (guess who methodically worked her way through an entire 200-count econo-size bag of mini York Peppermint Patties when not a single Trick-or-Treater showed up?), I vowed not to …

Nothing heralds soup season like an early Noreaster, and the cold, rainy assault of ghastly unpleasantness it brings with it.
In weather like last week’s, I miss barley.  More specifically, I miss me a bowl of warming, …

Three Octobers ago, I took a pumpkin cooking class taught by Michael Krondl, author of The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook. While the web and magazine world abounds with ridiculously good sweet, desserty pumpkin recipes, there’s …

The Golden Girls had their cheesecake.  Garfield had his lasagna.  But for me, a nutritionist with Eastern European roots and a budget,  cabbage has emerged as the lead comfort food contender as the weather turns cool …

If the marketing onslaught of pink everything hadn’t clued you in to the fact that October is breast cancer awareness month, consider yourself officially informed.  Sigh.  If only using my pink blender while wearing my …