Recipes from Magazines

Tell me I'm not the only one. I buy beautiful magazines with recipes and pictures of beautiful food (that must taste wonderful because the pictures are so lovely.) The magazine collects dust on my bedside table until I finally toss it into the recycling bin. If we're being honest, I don't toss it in the recycling bin, I put it on top of the stack of other beautiful magazines with pictures of beautiful food because "I want to try that recipe someday." Now Pinterest feeds this addiction with much less mess.
 Yesterday I broke down and decided to make one of the recipes. One of my favorite food magazines is Everyday Food by Martha Stewart. I had some cherry tomatoes so I decided to try the recipe for "Pasta with Roasted Tomatoes and Capers."  The recipe was easy and actually did taste good. (Yay, me!)

photo by Amy Hodges

I want to know,  do you have any favorite recipes you found in a magazine?

Pie for Mikey

Yesterday all over the blogosphere families made Peanut Butter Pie. It was the recipe of the day on FoodNetwork.com. CNN picked up the story. Why oh why was Peanut Butter Pie such a big story? It is and was a gesture of love. It's that simple. Jennifer Perillo is a food writer and blogger. Last week Jennifer's husband Mikey collapsed and died from a massive heart attack, leaving her without the love of her life and father of her two young children. In a week filled with pain, she reached out on her website, In Jennie's Kitchen. So many people had asked what they could do. She simply asked asked that on Friday, when they would be having a service to honor Mikey, "make a peanut butter pie this Friday and share it with someone you love. Then hug them like there's no tomorrow because today is the only guarantee we can count on." 


I made the peanut butter cream pie last night and today will enjoy it with my family. I can guarantee there will be hugs.