Roving Lemon's Big Adventure

Happy 2022! We got an unexpected bonus weeklong extension of holiday mode around here when Virginia got the first snow of the season last Su...

As a parent of a school-age child, I seem to spend a fair amount of time dodging activities that cut into the dinner hour. I consider fami...

Between the disruption of normal routines caused by Christmas (and school summer vacation, and trying to maintain some level of work ...

Not being a huge mayonnaise fan (although the homemade version is a much more convincing argument for its merits than the storebought kin...

Celery root could be the poster child for the maxim, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” It’s hard to find anything new to say about its appe...

In one of countless conversations about food during our Dallas visit, C. described a soup that her French mother used to make, known in her ...

Like sands through the hourglass, so goes another month, leaving only the last crumbs behind. And, like yesterday’s Royal Wedding tea party,...

Polenta with sauteed Italian sausage and baby spinach I’m not afraid to admit it: I’ve never made polenta before. I’m not afraid to admi...

Clockwise from top: pita chips, hummus, cucumber sticks, grape tomatoes, Caesar dip, baby carrots One of my cooking idiosyncracies is th...

I don’t really have anything clever to say about this soup, but that’s kind of appropriate. Because this soup is a great recipe to have on h...

I can hardly begin to quantify the number of things I learned about cultural diversity and human nature during my years of living overseas, ...

Even with a habit as well established as Friday Pizza Night , there’s room for innovation. Especially with something as adaptable as pizza, ...

Once upon a time, I used to be flummoxed by food writers who said things like, “No one really needs a recipe for soup, but….” Huh? I thought...

Conferences are great, especially if, like me, you work alone most of the time. They allow you to re-connect with friends and colleagues, ...

This morning it occurred to me, as I crawled out of bed at 7:00am after another late-night work session, that there is a direct link between...

Since I already had one spectacular failure in my one and only attempt to make jam in a slow cooker , it seems only fitting that its compani...

I’ve already written about a couple of my food prejudices, deeply entrenched from childhood. The red pepper one disappeared of its own acco...

Purchase update: paperwork signed and sealed, down payment delivered. We are now officially homeowners (or, rather, mortgage-holders). Ap...

(Or really, at this point, Plan D, but who’s counting?) Things have started to look up on the housing front. We are still no closer to kno...

One of the lesser-known drawbacks to being in life limbo is a dearth of people to cook for. In some ways this is for the best, given the cor...