Green Pasta with Asparagus & White Beans

I may be dating myself by asking this question, but: do you remember green ketchup? As with most junky foods, I don’t recall my mother every buying this stuff for our household, but I do remember thinking that it was pretty stinkin’ cool. These days I still have a predilection for green-colored food, although of [...]

A Pinteresting Kind of Day

Over the past few months I, like so many others, have developed a new favorite hobby—it’s called Pinterest. As you might imagine, one of my favorite categories to peruse on Pinterest is food; my board entitled “On my to-cook list” contains quite an extensive collection of pins. Today I finally decided to put a few [...]

Five Meals under Five Bucks

Did you know that Americans spent nearly $433 billion dollars on meals away from home in 2010? That’s a lot of restaurant-eatin’…and a lot of money that could have been saved. Eating out is an expensive habit, with restaurant-prepared meals often costing 2-3 times that of their homemade counterparts. Although it is true that you [...]