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Kale and Brussels Sprouts Salad with Hot Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
Occasionally it dawns on me that I haven’t eaten anything green in way too long, and I feel an urge to overcompensate. I think this is a familiar feeling for most people. My husband’s reaction is to open up the container of raw spinach and just start shoving handfuls into his mouth. “Taking his medicine,” I believe is how he describes it. Well, that makes it seem like a penance, and I love food too much to waste any of my lifetime meals on something I don’t want to eat. So I’m going to go the extra mile (when I can) and make a salad like this one. This is…
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Ina Garten’s Beans and Greens
I spent the better part of last year waiting anxiously for the release of Ina Garten’s new cookbook, Cooking for Jeffrey. When I found out it was going to be released ON THE ACTUAL DAY OF MY BIRTHDAY, it felt like I won the lottery. I have historically described Ina as some combination of my culinary soulmate and my spirit animal. Everything she makes is notorious for being done right and being easy to reproduce because of her great instructions. So far, I haven’t proven that theory wrong. My mom anticipated the fact that I would want need this book, and she heroically pre-ordered it for me from Amazon.com. (You too…
