I saw Fifty Shades Freed in a theater by myself on a Tuesday night because I’m a grown lady, and I do what I want. It was immensely entertaining and easily worth whatever portion of my $10/month movie subscription it gets. It is a brilliantly incoherent movie made up of random bits of schizophrenic movie […]
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Near & Far by Heidi Swanson: Cookbook Review
Heidi Swanson is kind of the queen bee of food blogs, and I’m basically an endless trove of 101cookbooks jokes that only a very specific set of people find funny. I mean, my most used blog category is one of them. You guys know what I’m talking about. But the thing is, as much as […]
Seven Spoons by Tara O’Brady – Cookbook Review
As evidenced previously, I’m a total sucker for putting Asian spices in traditionally Western foods. Like, I actually find myself incapable of making “plain” banana / zucchini bread like a normal human and insist on garam-masala-ing or allspicing everything. I know, it’s probably insufferable, but I literally can’t stop. My predilection made Seven Spoons, by Tara O’Brady an easy […]
Bowl and Spoon by Sara and Hugh Forte – Cookbook Review
Reading the chatter online about this second cookbook from the Sprouted Kitchen team, Bowl and Spoon, has been really affirming for me, despite not having contributed one crumb to this lovely book. It’s really been great mainly because everyone chimes in about how much we all like eating from bowls. I’m not alone! In fact, there are dozens […]
Street Vegan by Adam Sobel – Cookbook Review
When a book’s front cover’s got some kind of Asian-inspired sandwich (after research, Thai Barbecue Seitan Ribs with Pickled Thai Basil and Onions and Smoked Chile-Roasted Peanuts… whew), and its back cover’s just a grid of donuts, you know it’s going to be a good one. Street Vegan delivers, with an abundance of flavorful recipes, […]