Kale is not something that showed up on my dinner plate as a child, so until recently, it was an unknown. I had a vague notion of it as some kind of stiffly starched leaf that would have to be boiled down until it took on an edible stance. I was wrong, however, and thanks…

I can’t live without granola. I eat it almost every day – for breakfast, with milk and sliced banana, for lunch, with yogurt and fruit, or for a post-run snack in the afternoon. Granola seems like one of those things that any healthy eater ought to have on hand. Whole grains, nuts, dried fruit: all…

I have a confession to make. I’ve been buying strawberries at the grocery store. I know, I know – they’re inevitably from California, and they spent a lot of time in a refrigerated truck to get here, costing more energy than they’re worth. But I walk into the market, and there they are, big and…

What do you do when the sausage gravy is all gone, but you have four biscuits left? You make Chick’n ‘n’ Biscuits. What do you do with the leftover bits of roast chicken after Sunday dinner? You make Chick’n ‘n’ Biscuits. Last weekend, I was in the first situation: leftover biscuits; no more sausage gravy. I…

Biscuits and gravy are, in my mind, synonymous with chilly fall weekend mornings, probably because I usually got the leftovers that resulted from my mom making it for my dad during hunting season. She would make a big skilletful of sausage gravy early on Saturday morning, ladle out enough for us to eat for breakfast,…