Eating Archives - Better.Cheaper.Slower.

Melts in your mouth, not your backpack

April 19, 2025

Peanut Butter & Grape Bread. Not a joke. Profoundly great bread. Without kneading dough. Really. Just 30 seconds of stirring. Because sometimes you just feel like eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. When you're out hiking.

Easter Eggs

April 17, 2025

If you're hunting for an Easter egg dish, let me help. Here are 10 recipes for a wonderful Sunday brunch after your stroll in the Easter Parade.

Risi e Bisi: Sweet Spring Pea Risotto

April 16, 2025

Luscious, creamy rice. Fresh, sweet Spring peas. And some smoky prosciutto. Elegant and hearty for an early Spring night. Those fresh peas are the best reason to visit the Farmers Market this week.

Spring Faves: Favas

April 15, 2025

Must be Spring. Fresh fava beans at the Farmers Market. They're bright green, they're tender, they're slightly sweet. Preparing them is Slow. But really worth it. And they're great in my Complete Protein Tacos.

What We Can Learn from Ginger Ale

April 12, 2025

You can make a glass of intensely flavorful, thoroughly refreshing and, yes, kinda sweet soda with a fraction of the sugar calories you'd get in a can or bottle of Coke or another industrial soda. This is the gateway homemade soda pop.

Spring Soup Strategy Some garlic with your tea?

April 10, 2025

A perfect Way to begin a light, slow and satisfying Spring meal. Another Way to use great aroma - and lots of it - to let you eat less but feel like you ate more. A little garlic with your tea?

Aromatic Spring Vegetable-Potato Gratin

April 9, 2025

Delicious and beautiful. 50 cents per serving. If a gratin sounds like something you shouldn't try at home by yourself, the sound's deceiving. Click. Seeing, tasting and inhaling is believing.

Tropical Fish Tacos

April 8, 2025

Mango-papaya ceviche with grilled halibut. A shockingly great flavor combination. An unusual but immediately lovable meal you'll make again. And again. 100% of your daily Vitamin C requirement and a complete fruit serving.

Coconut-Chile Shooters

April 5, 2025

Coconut milk with a few drops of chile pepper. Very high Pleasure Per Calorie score. Whether you knock one back as a pre-appetizer sip with a kick. Or use it to sauce a fish, chicken or vegetable dish in a hurry.

Rice Pudding Flashback

April 3, 2025

Less than 75 cents per serving of this rich, luxurious, creamy pudding without cream. Fragrant with coconut and cinnamon. Soft but still chewable. Juicy-fruity with fat raisins. Hardly any added sugar.