TIP OF THE DAY: Brown Rice Pudding Recipe For Breakfast

Yesterday we popped into our local Le Pain Quotidien to meet a colleague for coffee. On the breakfast menu was brown rice pudding, topped with mixed nuts and raisins. We love rice pudding, so of course, we ordered it: our first “breakfast” rice pudding. It had much less sugar than dessert rice pudding, and, though…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Spiced Roasted Carrots With Sumac

This recipe from the Williams-Sonoma Test Kitchen was so breathtaking, we traipsed through three different farmers markets to hunt down the beautiful heirloom carrots (and finally found them at Trader Joe’s). The recipe gave us an excuse to purchase sumac, a slightly tart and fruity spice popular in North African and Middle Eastern cooking. We’d…
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TIP OF THE DAY: 25+ Egg Salad Additions

Today is National Egg Day, which rings nostalgic to us. The approach of summer reminds us of Mom’s fresh egg salad sandwiches, served to us with the just-cooked eggs still warm. Basic egg salad combines chopped hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise with finely chopped celery and onion, seasoned with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice (or…
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