Ready-to-Cook Meals Delivered to Your Door! A Review of the Blue Apron Meal...
Love to cook? Well, if you don’t, you probably aren’t reading Every Food Fits. (Unless you’re reading this because you’re my husband; thank you for supporting my passions, honey!) But I digress. In the...
View ArticleCadbury Creme Egg Experiment – Round 3 – SUCCESS!
Cadbury Creme Eggs are my religion. (See Exhibits A, B & C.) So when my friend Amanda was denied a deep-fried Cadbury Creme Egg at a local establishment that fries them around Easter each year, I...
View ArticleTop 6 Trader Joe’s Wines Under $5!
Call it what you will. Mommy Juice. Booze. A Way to Forget The Day’s Bulls***, or on worse days, Actual Child S***. Wine. I love it, and I enjoy relaxing with a few sips at the end of the day. But...
View ArticleArroz Negro Con Pollo
The dinner so delicious I had to blog about it immediately following my meal. Seriously. My mother-in-law, Vivian, shared a wonderful recipe for traditional Cuban/Puerto Rican arroz con pollo. I’ve...
View ArticleCold-Brewed Iced Coffee & Vanilla Simple Syrup
An 8:30 a.m. playdate calls for coffee. (But that goes without saying, doesn’t it?) My friend Amanda brought our favorite bagels from Brooklyn Bagel Bakery in Courthouse, and I brought the coffee. (And...
View ArticleStrawberry Balsamic Pork Chops
This is not a recipe. This is the tasty result of a spur-of-the-moment experiment. Ready to go on an adventure in the kitchen? OK. Let’s go. Strawberry Balsamic Pork Chops Print recipe Ingredients pork...
View ArticleI’m a Failure. (And I hope you are, too.)
No, this is not a post about schadenfreude. This post is to assure you that some nights, dinner in my home looks like this: O hai. I burned dinner and drink my sorrows now. As an owner of a small...
View ArticleKitchen Sink Summer Vegetable Bake
So many vegetables from this week’s Green Grocer, so little desire to make several different meals with them. What’s a gal to do? I’ll tell you what *this* gal did. She asked Twitter. And dear Jenna,...
View ArticleSouthwestern Chicken Green Chili
Is it green chili or green chile? The name comes from New Mexican chile peppers, but it seems those peppers are actually Hatch chiles, which aren’t in this stew, though the poblano green chile is in...
View ArticleNever Buy Lotion or Lip Balm AGAIN.
Yep, you read that correctly. In an ongoing effort to simplify, simplify, simplify, a friend introduced me to a way to never again purchase lotion or lip balm. It’s as easy as boiling water (and...
View ArticleWarm Nutty Vinaigrette
A recent Washington’s Green Grocer delivery brought my first head of red cabbage. Ooh, red cabbage! Wait…red cabbage? What do I make with it? I found a recipe for a warm dressing and modified it to...
View ArticleChocolo-Chocolate Chip Pavlova
Pavlova is something of a “leftovers” recipe. I never go out of my way to make pavlova or meringues. #sorrynotsorry I’m not going to apologize for it. We used 10 egg yolks for salted caramel ice cream...
View ArticleChallah French Toast Bake – HOLLA!
Everyone at your brunch table will “holla” for this dish. It’s like eating cake for breakfast, but healthier. I modified this Serious Eats Challah Bread Pudding to achieve the following awesomeness....
View ArticlePiece-of-Cake Salmon Cakes
“Mix a couple dozen ingredients…” “Prepare to batter and fry…” Those recipes – ubiquitous on the internets – for salmon cakes didn’t appeal to me. I wanted something simple that I could prepare in a...
View ArticleHome Cooking with Marcus Samuelsson & His Spicy Shrimp Falafel
Marcus Samuelsson‘s new cookbook is just fabulous. (And you could tell him so in person this week in Washington, D.C! But more on that in a minute.) It’s colorful, packed with beautiful photographs and...
View Article*Here’s* the Beef! Stew
Hearty beef stew. Doesn’t that sound great? [Insert gripes about winter weather here.] What’s that? You’re a vegetarian? Ah, well, try this mango and black bean stew (substitute chicken for more...
View ArticleBetter-than-the-Restaurant Cashew Chicken (or Tofu!)
And it’s healthier, too! Tastier and healthier? Now that I have your attention… Homemade cashew chicken packs in vegetables like onions and sweet peppers with lean chicken or tofu and a handful or so...
View ArticleCold Soba Noodles with Salmon, Kale & Avocado
Cold noodles make me think of pasta salad. And just the idea of pasta salad makes me think, “Ick.” Why? I’m not sure, but I think I’ve been wandering around looking for a good cold noodle salad in all...
View ArticleJam with Every Food Fits at the D.C. State Fair!
Greetings friends! You know how much I love to make jam, right? It makes a wonderful gift to give anytime of year. BONUS: I haven’t purchased jam/jelly/marmalade/etc. in years. Literally. The good...
View ArticleSay “Hello!” to Ciao Biscotti
See that gorgeous toasted coconut biscotti in the photo? Ask for “biscotti” in Italy, and you might not get one of those “fancy nut-filled, chocolate-drizzled cookies that we see today, artfully...
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