The Joy of the Joy of Cooking

My cousin Erica and her boyfriend Pat were coming to visit Josh and I before heading to a Philip K Dick festival. They were going to stay a...

I love oatmeal cookies. I always have. They are easily my very favorite cookie variety (followed closely by gingersnaps--what can I say? ...

I was hungry and I wondered if there were any quick recipes left in TJOC. I found Cheese toast (p. 182) This is such a short post! So I wi...

Sometimes I have reasons why I make a particular recipe on a particular day and sometimes I don't. I was in the mood to make filled noo...

I have been invigorated by the new randomly generated list! ::hangs head:: That's actually a lie. I was depressed and developed my new...

I have found that having lettuce or baby spinach on hand drastically increases our chances of making a salad (I know that's really hard ...

The best part about running your own blog is that you can change the rules as you go along. I desperately wanted to start a new randomly se...

I wasn't optimistic about Baked brown rice with mushrooms (p. 355). I don't have good luck with rice (I blame the altitude, rice ju...

I haven't been making much progress on the entree salad section of TJOC. I'm guessing it's because we tend not to have a lot of...

I'm not a huge fan of Granola (p. 353). It's just not something I'm drawn too. I don't even like granola bars. The few tim...