Not everyone who uses Google to look up "molten chocolate cake" is looking for an explanation of what the dish is. After all, the name kind of gives it away.
Cookbooks usually come in two varieties. First, there are those gorgeous, glossy food porn albums that you'd never dream of actually using (you wouldn't want to splatter sauce on them).
I'm subletting this summer and the girls who live with me love rice -- a lot. When I moved in they showed me the rice cooker (a contraption I never thought useful) and said I could help myself to their rice -- bags and bags of rice.
April is a confusing time for Chicagoans:‚ One day I am wearing flip-flops, the next day I can't walk three feet without needing gloves. So in the spirit of can't-make-up-its-mind weather, I am sharing a recipe that's equally confused.
It's not impossible to eat on the cheap , especially if you're willing to eat foods that are unhealthy.‚ Fast food restaurants like McDonald's are doing well as people flock to the dollar menu.‚ But how do you eat well‚ for not a lot of money?
When I forget about those bananas sitting at the bottom of my fruit bowl, there's only one thing to do: make banana bread. I like mine warm, with a glass of milk, and perhaps a smear of butter for good measure.
With summer on the way--it is, I promise!--you'll soon be able to capitalize on the season's cheapest staple: salad. Salads are never at the top of my list in winter, but I come around in May when the wool turtlenecks find their way to a box under my bed.
