Tag: cheese

• 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

• 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

• Holy cow! Easy zucchini-tomato Parmesan

  Flipping between channels last night, I paused long enough on a PBS special about cancer research to hear an expert say something to the effect that obesity has finally passed smoking to be the #1 preventable cause of cancer!!! I think this was rattling around somewhere in my subconscious, but I’ve never heard overweight put…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 20, 2017

  Cancer prevention, Cooking from the garden, Food habits, Fresh herbs, healthy cooking, obesity, Seasonal food, Taking care of ourselves, vegetables

  basil, cheese, cooking from garden, nutrition, Tomatoes, zucchini

• The new normal; chard-crab quiche

  I was diagnosed with breast cancer just before Christmas (yeah, Happy Holidays!), and that’s been my excuse for everything I don’t feel like doing ever since. Like eating well or exercising or going to bed at a reasonable time. “I oughta be able to do this — I have cancer!” Obviously, that’s not going to…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 29, 2017

  Aging, Appetizers, Breakfast, Breakfast-brunch, Building better habits, Cancer, Cooking from the garden, Falling off healthy eating wagon when discouraged, Fish, Maintaining weight loss, Seasonal food, Seniors and weight loss

  chard, cheese, cooking from garden, Crab, eggs, healthy eating, Quiche

• A fine day for running off the rails; roasted asparagus with a college education

  This would be the day for going stark-raving, nutso, bat-crap, screaming like a banshee, inhaling everything in sight, edible and non-. The air is like damp, gray wool. I’m reading William Styron, the master of depressive darkness. It’s Daughter’s Day and one daughter won’t answer the phone, the other had her daughter answer rudely. I’m afraid…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 25, 2016

  Addiction, Asparagus, Building better habits, Emo eating, Mind games and weight loss, Roasting vegetables, Seasonal food, Seniors and weight loss, Weight Watchers

  binging, cheese, cooking from garden, healthy eating, obesity, Vegetables, why overeat

• Back in the kitchen, empenadas

  Eight weeks after my second hip replacement and I was ready this week to get back in the kitchen. Stoic the Vast does well at the stove (especially considering he started at Ground Zero), but he gets impatient, doesn’t like anything complicated. I live for complicated — as long as it’s healthy and fast. Not…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 10, 2016

  Building better habits, Easter, Exercise, Falling off healthy eating wagon when discouraged, Importance of exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Lent, Starting over

  broccoli, Calzones, cheese, chicken, Garlic, Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown

• Rainy-day tuna casserole with whole-grain noodles and LOTS of vegetables

  Hey, it’s not a dessert. And Taste of Home says it has 327 calories in each of 6 servings which is truly OK for a casserole. Add green salad in light dressing, a glass of wine and a perfect orange, and I shall sail away to bed a happy camper. My mother’s tuna casserole, which, of…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 4, 2015

  Casseroles, good food, vegetables

  Casserole makeover, cheese, onions, Taste of Home recipe, Tuna, Tuna noodle casserole, zucchini

• Take ’em a meal; broccoli-chicken casserole

  I’m going to call my first cookbook Tweakers. (Notice, please, I did not say Twerkers.)  I’m referring to the habit of myself and most of my cook friends in which we change every recipe just a little, even the first time we make it. Stoic the Vast is puzzled by this, but we tweakers can imagine how something…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 20, 2014

  Butter, Casseroles, Simple foods, Taste of Home magazine

  cheese, chicken, Stuffing, Tweaking recipes

• What does a fresh corn souffle have to do with depression?

  Plenty- in this house where I’ve learned over the years that so much of dealing with depression is putting one foot in front of the other, making supper, digging down into your real (as opposed to your fantasy) relationships. I also need to say here that I’ve been taking a minimal amount of generic Paxil…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 12, 2014

  Addiction, Depression, Food addiction, healthy cooking, Seasonal food, Simple foods

  cheese, cooking from garden, Corn, eggs, Robin Williams

• Zucchini, squash and cukes — oh my!

  The squashfest continues, along with enough cucumbers to put up pickles for an army. But I have the answer to yellow squash, usually about as tasty to me as wet cotton. This bland, limp vegetable has been waiting for Tommy Lombardo of Euclid, OH and his (her?) recipe for Tex-Mex Summer Squash Casserole in the…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 8, 2014

  healthy cooking, Sidedishes, Simple foods, Taste of Home magazine, vegetables

  cheese, cooking from garden, Green chilies, Jalapeno, onions, Yellow summer squash