Don't you just love Alton Brown? I mean, of course, in the sense that he makes you feel totally inadequate in the kitchen yet simultaneously awed and inspired... and in the sense that he seems both approachable and on another plane at the same time? If that all seemed wonderfully muddled, so is Alton Brown's newest …

Instant Pot vs. Slow Cooker: Dum dum dum... I'm reading lots of commentary lately from people who are ditching all their other small kitchen appliances, particularly their Crock-Pot, in favor of their shiny new Instant Pot. I get the impulse: Who doesn't want to decrease clutter, and who ever has enough room in their kitchen? …

Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 2/19/17: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday! Hope you find it useful. *** Subscribe to the weekly ALDI meal plans here! Note: I try not to repeat the same recipes too often, but you will see favorite easy …

My power was out for a while this morning, so I decided to leave my cold house and take an impromptu trip over to Goodwill... as one does. Now I'm just tickled by this cute little Delft pitcher that jumped into my cart. I don't think it's worth a whole lot more than the $2.99 I paid for …

Easy Instant Pot Vegetable Soup: Good for what ails ya, and comes together quickly! I've been sick since Thursday, which is much better now but started out as the kind of bone-rattling, coughing, feverish, dizzy, aching sick where you just want to curl up in bed and have someone take care of you and bring you soup. …

Let’s check in on week seven of refined sugar & me in 2017! This week I’m down two more pounds, making it eight pounds total in seven weeks. (That extra pound loss this week is likely entirely due to being sick for several days with no appetite, so we'll see if that sticks...) So this week, let's …