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Ellie Krieger's Kitchen Sink Cookies

If dried fruit is a healthy snack, oatmeal a nutritious breakfast and canola oil rich in omega-3 fatty acids than any recipe that combines the three must be a super-power food, right?

Even when that something is a cookie.  Especially when that something is a cookie. 

Worknight Dinner Recipe: There's No Shame in Faking It with Macaroni & Cheese

See this plate of cheesy, vegetable-laden goodness? 

It started out as one of these:  

I know that sometimes, I have a tendency to wax poetic about cooking from scratch, baking from scratch, anything from scratch. I don't say this because I think every thing I make is better than the pre-packaged, pre-sliced, pre-made, just-add-water versions (even though it is). When I make things from scratch I can use the ingredients, flavors and spices that I like. 

However, like everyone else, there are nights when not only does the thought of making homemade macaroni and cheese line up with Last Thing On Earth I Feel Like Doing, but even the thought of stirring the contents of a silver cheese pouch into a large pot of boiled pasta shells makes me want to dive headfirst in between my couch cushions and hide. 

So. I confess. Sometimes I eat frozen dinners. 

The Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge (Week 6) Challah

Since I began baking in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge six weeks ago, I’ve received some great response from a lot of my readers. Namely, I’ve had people ask me: what in the world do you do with all of that bread? 

Seeing as I live alone and try to eat from food groups that don’t consist solely of “unbleached bread flour” you are correct in assuming that I don’t consume all of the bread that I bake. So for your reading pleasure, here are a few things I’ve done with some of the breads I’ve baked since beginning the challenge: 

Worknight Dinner Recipe: Eggplant Parmesan Pasta

It's pretty common in American culture to blame our schedules for poor eating habits. Excuses like "I'm too busy to cook dinner," "It's faster to order take-out during the week," and "I worked long hours, so I deserve macaroni and cheese" are all fairly common among the average kitchen-phobe.

When your life is busy with school, work or a move (or a blog move), sometimes the last thing you feel like doing is cooking. When you have a never-ending to do list and a project that's taken over your spare time, it's not unusual to crave simplicity. And even on the busiest of busy days...hey, a girl's gotta eat.

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Jun 23, 2009 12:00:00 AM | Pasta, Vegetarian, Worknight Dinners

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Until I turned fifteen, I had never experienced moving vans or packing cartons. I never endured acclimating to a scary, new elementary school where I wouldn't have anyone to sit with at lunch. Growing up, my family didn't move very often. We lived in one house from the time I was four years old until high school when we relocated to a larger house about five minutes down the road.

Since college, however, I've bounced around between a few different apartments, scouring Craig's List and trading furniture with my parents' basement. Whenever I've move to a new place, be it my family home, dorm room or a new apartment , I don't waste any time at filling shelves, hanging pictures and organizing closets. I like to get the packing and unpacking done and over with as fast as possible - even if it means back-to-back twenty hour days leading up to or following moving day.

When you're moving, it seems that no matter how well you've planned ahead, listed and labeled, organized and sorted, there will always be last minute fires that you need to put out.

It turns out that moving a blog is no different.

In Good Taste has a new home here at www.ingoodtasteblog.net.

You'll already notice some new changes and improvements around here (like my Amazon store! Go shop there!) and there are even more to come.

In the meantime, if you'd like daily posts from In Good Taste delivered to your inbox or your reader, don't forget to subscribe to my new feed.

Moving Day!

Until I turned fifteen, I had never experienced moving vans or packing cartons. I never endured acclimating to a scary, new elementary school where I wouldn't have anyone to sit with at lunch. Growing up, my family didn't move very often. We lived in one house from the time I was four years old until high school when we relocated to a larger house about five minutes down the road.

Since college, however, I've bounced around between a few different apartments, scouring Craig's List and trading furniture with my parents' basement. Whenever I've move to a new place, be it my family home, dorm room or a new apartment , I don't waste any time at filling shelves, hanging pictures and organizing closets. I like to get the packing and unpacking done and over with as fast as possible - even if it means back-to-back twenty hour days leading up to or following moving day.

When you're moving, it seems that no matter how well you've planned ahead, listed and labeled, organized and sorted, there will always be last minute fires that you need to put out.

It turns out that moving a blog is no different.

In Good Taste has a new home here at www.ingoodtasteblog.net.

You'll already notice some new changes and improvements around here (like my Amazon store! Go shop there!) and there are even more to come.

In the meantime, if you'd like daily posts from In Good Taste delivered to your inbox or your reader, don't forget to subscribe to my new feed.