Category: Tomatoes

• Two Twinkies, jammy tomatoes

  One feels odd, to say the least, taking diet words of wisdom from comic Louis C.K., but in the April 25 issue of Rolling Stone, he does talk sensibly about anxiety and eating. When asked if it helped to realize that his compulsive eating was just self medicating anxiety, he answers: “Oh, definitely. Once you…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 25, 2013

  Compulsive eating, Emo eating, Meat, Simple foods, Spring, Tomatoes

  Brushy Creek Farms, cheese, Grits, Louis C.K., Pork, Real Simple magazine, Rolling Stone magazine, Tomatoes

• Kitchen Roselli, 131 Main and Greek couscous salad

  Something in the Thai Steak Salad dressing at 131 Main in Cornelius (NC) tugged at the corners of my palate. Something familiar but unusual in an entrée salad. A blast of  summery green not usually keeping company with butter-tender bits of filet mignon. They added fresh mint to amp up the beef, mango, noodles and green…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 9, 2013

  Couscous, good food, healthy cooking, Olive oil, Salad, Simple foods, Spring, Tomatoes

  131 Main, basil, Cornelius, Greek salad, healthy eating, Kitchen Roselli, nutrition, onions, Rosemary, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Villa Pozzi

• Travels with Tootsie, sweet potato and peanut stew

  Any day that begins with a video conversation with Dora the Explorer and one of her older sisters calling to say they’re coming for Christmas is a fab one. Saturday morning the Tanzania group was in the middle of 3.5  internet-free weeks on their schedule. So everyone went into a Stonetown internet cafe to upload pictures and…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 24, 2012

  African food, Casseroles, Emo eating, Exercise, Fall, Tomatoes, vegetables

  allspice, cumin, onions, slow-cooker, sweetpotatoes, Tomatoes

• A Tale of Two Pies

  I ate the best beef of my life last week at 131 Main in Cornelius (NC) — another bon voyage whoopdedo for Dora the Explorer. I ordered the Thai Style Steak Salad and expected the usual chewy beef bites that bite back. But these were like butter — tender, sweet and with a distinctive flavor. I…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 28, 2012

  healthy cooking, Pie, Seasonal food, Tomatoes

  131 Main Cornelius, cheese, church cookbooks, First Presbyterian Statesville, onions, Tomatoes