A Natural Scientist

 Today I looked at a job ad and immediately fell into a deep depression. Nobody will ever hire me! I am DOOMED if we stay here, doomed!! The...

Ear status: better than it was, but not great.  I don't want to die any more!  But I could really go for some nice narcotics.  (Yes, I h...

Adapted from Oct 2016 Cook's Illustrated 4 T Spectrum palm shortening 5 t blackstrap molasses 1 1/4 c raw sugar 3/4 t salt 2 T coc...

Put  the children down for nap/quiet time/mama needs a break. Realize that your meal plan says chicken and the chicken is frozen solid.  D...

This recipe originated due to a tragic lack of gram dal in rural Virginia.  My children eat it cheerfully (generally with peanut butter), it...

Today I went to bake something (all three children home, one with a bad case of FOUR and one with a bad case of PINKEYE) and realized I'...

Look, I'm not a food blogger. I made this once. It was tasty. It was easily the best flavor and texture on any it won't kill me, ...

Our garden is lovely.  We picked a ton of leafy green things today and I managed to eat a chard omelette for lunch while C. fed my children ...

(Adapted from Smitten Kitchen's recipe ) Dear Readers, do you know how I feel about insult (can't eat anything) being added to inj...

(From Jan. 2) As my three weeks of hellacious, uninterrupted small whiny children are coming to an end, we have - of course! - caught anot...

Bug will no longer eat dinner. For breakfast and lunch, he can choose his meal: typically oat-e-os and soymilk and then, invariably, PB...

Num Ba Chok (the kosher and vegetarian versions) 4 quarts broth 2 pounds fillets of mild white fish -or: 2 pounds pressed firm tofu 2 stalks...

(Haiti recipes updated.) Iraq! Which the US single-handedly moved twenty or thirty spots down the list in two short years. Regardless of the...

By request, and from Mr. S's brilliant and inspired World Corruption Index Dinner Series. For this, we even suspend our five-ingredient...