If I'd have put the name of this food in the title of the post, you probably wouldn't have kept reading. But I wanted to first be able to tell you that just a quarter cup of the mystery ingredient has 11 grams of protein in it.  (And that a single serving of soup made…

In my last post, I wrote about saving money on healthy vegetarian food.  You guys responded with perhaps the best batch of comments this site has seen, adding enough useful tips that, in theory, none of us should ever have to pay more than about thirty-eight cents for a week's worth of groceries again. One…

If you have young kids, you know not to plan to get much else done on the days when you're watching them.  Once they're mobile, as my 7-month old now is, they require your full attention, save for a few minutes, if you're lucky, when they're napping. So you certainly don't plan on making curry…

As recently as college, I thought eggplants were poisonous.  I can't be the only one.  I blame Hudson's Adventure Island and my parents. But even after discovering that eggplant wouldn't drain my energy bars in real life, I still considered it to rank among the world's worst vegetables.  It's spongy, the skin is thick, and…