Have you ever had a dish that tasted incredibly delicious but was so simple? This pasta sauce falls into this category. I stopped using pasta sauce from the jar about a year ago because it always seemed to just sit in the fridge and eventually go bad. And most jarred sauces have a lot of […]
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Simple Saturday: How to Cook Kale
The other day someone asked me how to cook kale. And my face lit up and I got extremely enthusiastic about explaining the delicious merits of this green veg. Because kale deserves excitement! Kale is the perfect side dish, pasta mix-in, pizza topping, salad green and even chip. I call it nature’s popcorn, because when […]
Going Seasonal
A few days ago I wrote about Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a fabulous book that has changed the way I think about food in many ways. It focused a lot on the positive, lasting impact of seasonal eating and buying locally. It’s amazing, when you think of it, how greatly the quality and taste of our […]
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
There’s this book that I’ve had on my “need to read” list for the past like 6 months. And I finally decided to give up my years-long mystery book streak to read “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver. I read one of Kingsolver’s novels (The Poisonwood Bible) in high school and then recently I found […]
The Hive Bar Review
There’s a new bar and restaurant in town that I have been anticipating for months! Ever since I heard that the snazzy and few-of-a-kind 21c Museum Hotel was coming to Bentonville, I was hoping that it would bring with it a great restaurant and bar…and it did! And I got even more excited when I learned that […]