http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog Hot food trends, cooking tips and more in a recipe writer\'s diary Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:10:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en …here’s a box. Help yourself. Just let me grab one first. I’m feeling a little misty eyed since this is my last blog post here at Homemakers.com. This blog has been my virtual home for almost 3 years and I am really going to miss it. Recently a lot has changed ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/06/01/if-you-need-a-tissue/ It’s been unseasonably hot here. On the one hand, I love it. We’ve been wearing full-on summer clothes, sipping lemonade and lounging around drinking wine on the patio into the wee hours of the night. It’s fantastic! That said, I find carbs are the downside of heat wave weather. While ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/05/27/bread-as-a-plate/ There are loads of convenience products on the market that promise to make having parties easier, but how many of them really make you look like a rock star? Seriously. There’s a lot of crappy tasting ‘gourmet’ food out there and tons of useless gadgets and gizmos. But for ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/05/25/hostess-help-you-can-hide/ It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while I get the urge for a fizzy, sugary drink. Usually, after just a few sips, it’s enough already and I feel guilt about wasting half a can of pop. Knowing this about me, my mom and her main man ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/05/20/keeping-pop-tip-top/ What is it about summer time that makes hard cooked eggs such an essential pantry item? Sliced in salads, chopped and blended with mayo and dill pickles for egg salad or halved and hollowed and then re-stuffed like these curried deviled eggs (which I made on the weekend when ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/05/18/how-to-peel-eggs-easily/ Barb, my yoga instructor, keeps telling the class to stand with our toes and heels touching -- apparently, it makes you feel rooted in the ground and is an essential instruction to follow if you want to master mountain pose. I say ‘apparently’ since I can’t do it. Years of ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/05/13/yoga-tea/ I can’t understand people who don’t eat salad. I love it. There’s just so many ways to enjoy it. Even if you eat salad every day – or twice a day – it never needs to be boring. All you have to do is swap around the veggies and the ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/05/11/avocado-oil-a-new-favourite-thing/ It may seem an unlikely analogy, but mothers and buttermilk have a lot in common. While both can be a little sour, both can also give you a lift and make things better. The only difference being that in the case of mothers, the lift usually results in a better ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/05/06/buttermilk-lemonade-for-mothers-day/ Last week something fantastic happened to me. It was a busy week and I wasn’t prepared. My son Oliver had been sick all the weekend before so instead of doing my regular pantry stocking on Saturday or Sunday, I headed into the week hoping to live off the various frozen ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/05/04/doing-myself-a-favour/ I’m a big fan of Japanese foods. In fact, the only Japanese foods I’ve tried that I haven’t liked have been displeasing not because they tasted particularly bad, but because of their texture. I’m not good with things like raw squid, litchi fruit (not Japanese but exactly the texture that ... http://www.homemakers.com/blog/danasblog/2010/04/29/tofu-noodles/