One of the best features of our local food co-op is the seafood that’s trucked in fresh from Boston each week. We get an email of the options and choose what and how much we want. Unfortunately, our 13-year-old daughter has a pretty universal reaction to things that swim. “I don’t like fish.” About the […]
The “carbonara” in this spaghetti dish is said to derive from the Italian word for “charcoal makers.” So I imagine those rough-hewn folk grabbing the simplest ingredients at hand–bacon, eggs, pasta and cheese–to make this classic hearty meal that cooks up in a hurry It sounds a little like an Italian version of breakfast for […]
One of my most vivid memories monitoring the dining habits in a local elementary school here in the District of Columbia was watching my very own daughter carefully dis-assemble a made-from-scratch lasagna so she could pick out and discard the spinach and eat just the pasta and cheese. Well, guess what? Kids will eat spinach. […]
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