• A brilliant quiche

    I’ve been doing a little wine reading lately, and a word that keeps popping up is “brilliant.” It doesn’t relate to intellect but to surprise and fortuitousness and spark, to something that is just immediately right on the taste buds. That would be this Quiche from the December (and final) issue of  Cooking Light magazine. […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    February 19, 2019
    Cooking from the garden, Cooking Light recipes, Easy entrees, Mushrooms, Quiche
    chard, cheese, eggs, Garlic, sweetpotatoes
  • Two cooks are not too many; curried chicken and cauliflower

    I went back to work half-time at the end of May (with a 6 to 8 hour weekly commute) and did not foresee this benefit: Stoic the Vast has vastly expanded his cooking repertoire. He’s baked a toothsome whole wheat-oat bread for years and, likewise, always been in charge of fluffy omelets with sautéed peppers […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    February 12, 2019
    Chicken, Easy entrees, good food, healthy cooking, Sheet pan suppers
    cauliflower, chicken, Cucumber, Curry, Greek yogurt, healthy eating, Mint
  • For Pat, Part II or Fear of Fish

    Several years ago a friend and I agreed that we almost always order fish in nice restaurants but are just as likely not to cook it at home. We’re both good cooks who cook a lot. Why isn’t this the easiest thing in the world? I can whip up a quick tuna salad (you should […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    January 22, 2019
    Easy entrees, Fish, good food, healthy cooking
    Flounder, Mushrooms, NRDC recommended fish, onions, salmon
  • For Pat — what I did with the Christmas smoked scallops

    I usually credit whatever web site I find a recipe on, but I missed that this time, also changed a few things like amount of liquid. Recipe called for 2 cups baby arugula but there was not a leaf available in Mocksville so I substituted 2 cups chopped baby spinach, and it was just fine. […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    January 13, 2019
    Easy entrees, Lemons, pasta, Seafood, Shellfish, Simple foods, Winter
    Arugula, Orzo, Smoked scallops, Tomatoes
  • There’s always a death at Christmas

    Of course, death is always with us in vast quantities that we can only imagine when we can’t sleep at night. But the ones that have gobsmacked me at holiday time started with a Shakespeare seminar classmate in college. I didn’t know him well, but when he disappeared over Christmas break in a small plane […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    December 10, 2018
    Advent, Balance, Being present in our lives, Depression, Faith and religion, Grief, Handling loss without eating, Uncategorized
    Death and Christmas, Death never takes a holiday, Loss at the holidays
  • Emo eating, addiction and wellness

    I broke my foot in June and quickly gained 14 pounds — faster, you might say, than a heifer on a feed lot. That was five months ago. Since September I’ve carved off nine of those pounds — as slowly as sculpting marble with a butter knife. Aaargh, that’s all I can say. (Of course, […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    November 11, 2018
    Addiction, Food addiction, Mind games and weight loss, Seniors and weight loss, Stress eating, Uncategorized, Weight Watchers
    Anxiety, Boredom, Depression, Exercise, Fast food, weight loss
  • Watsontown, PA

    “How’d you find Watsontown?” asked one of my 111 high school classmates after Stoic and I ended up there as we drove home from Niagara Falls last month. She, incidentally, is among the handful of us who didn’t stay there after graduation. Well, as a vaudeville comic might say, with great difficulty. I think because […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    September 15, 2018
    Aging, Comfort food, Compulsive eating, Depression, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Emotional side of weight loss, Food addiction, Rural life, Taking care of ourselves, Warrior Run High School Class of ’62, Why overweight?
    Academy Street by Mary Costello, High school reunion, obesity, self-image, why overeat
  • Best summer soup ever!

    “If I got this in an expensive restaurant, I’d be really happy with it,” said Stoic the Vast on first tasting this elegant and easy zucchini soup, adapted from a skinnytaste.com recipe. That’s our highest praise. If we’d paid real money for it (instead of “just” raising or buying the groceries), we’d still like it […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    August 4, 2018
    Cooking from the garden, Seasonal food, Simple foods, Soup
    cooking from garden, healthy eating, skinnytaste.com, Vegetables, zucchini
  • Gregory Pardlo’s Air Traffic and zucchini tots (no, really, both of these things)

    Honestly, I was going to opine about zucchini and how thanks to Maggie M. at my YMCA, I’ve learned about zucchini tots which are just like tater tots, except, you know. Then this morning I finished  Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo’s “Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America” (Borzoi, 2018). A frequent […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    July 22, 2018
    Addiction, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Food addiction, Food habits, Seasonal food, Sheet pan cooking, Willpower
    Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, cheese, cooking from garden, Gregory Pardlo, zucchini
  • Depression — that big black bear — and obesity

    For a cogent discussion of the relationship between the two, see — surprise! —  an interview with the glamorous Charlize Theron in the May issue of Elle magazine. She gained 35 pounds to play an exhausted new mother in “Tully,” and says “I had depression for the first time in my life shooting this film.” Isn’t […]

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    June 17, 2018
    Aging, Depression, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Exercise, obesity, Seniors and weight loss, Working out
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