Kitchen Witch | Wednesday, February 7,2007

Some help from Cupid

Whip up some Black Forest brownies

Untitled Document Cupid left a voice mail last night. With the annual archery tournament in just a few days, he wanted to check in: Would I be needing any extra assistance this y

Kitchen Witch | Wednesday, January 31,2007

Super Bowl chaat

Eat superior snacks as you watch the Bears trounce the Colts

By Kim O’Donnel

Untitled Document I know little about the upcoming football showdown (it’s in Miami, correct?), and, frankly, I don’t care. What’s important is the need for sup

Kitchen Witch | Wednesday, January 24,2007

Winter citrus on ice

Who says the season is an ice-cream-free zone?

By Kim O’Donnel

Untitled Document I’ve long subscribed to the notion that winter is an ice-cream-free zone. Even when snow fails to make an appearance or the temperature feels more like sp

Kitchen Witch | Wednesday, January 17,2007

Tropical winter

When the weather gets tricky, it’s pineapple time!

By Kim O’Donnel

Untitled Document Just a few days ago, the news from your neighborhood climatologist might have suggested there’s really something to that global warming thing. Take the fi

Kitchen Witch | Wednesday, January 10,2007

Improvising chili

When plans go awry, it’s time to talk turkey

By Kim O’Donnel

Untitled Document There’s a line from a John Lennon song that sums up a recent attempt to fix dinner: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making othe

Kitchen Witch | Thursday, January 4,2007

Cauliflower power

It never tastes like a tree trunk, and it takes on any flavor

By Kim O’Donnel

Untitled Document If cheese sauce is all you’ve ever had in the way of broccoli and its kissing cousin, cauliflower, then we need to talk. It is hard to mention one witho

Kitchen Witch | Thursday, December 21,2006

Stew for serenity

Here’s a hearty way to restore your equilibrium

By Kim O’Donnel

Lately, life at my house has been a roller coaster. Family duties of an intensive-care-unit variety have sucked me in and sucked me dry. When I finally did get some down time, the last thing I wanted

Kitchen Witch | Thursday, December 14,2006

Enlightened chocolate chips

These cookies have half the butter, but are twice as delicious

By Kim O’Donnel

When Christmas came to town, there were a few things I could count on: Santa (I kept the fantasy going until I was 10), Fritos in my stocking, and my father’s private stash of chocolate-chip coo

Kitchen Witch | Wednesday, December 6,2006

Piggy makes good pie

Good lord, lard comes back into culinary vogue

By Kim O’Donnel

Mexican-cooking diva Zarela Martinez cooks with it. Your grandma, too. Food writer Nina Planck sings its nutritional praises. I’m talking about lard, the rendered fat of a pig that’s comi

Kitchen Witch | Wednesday, November 29,2006

Spiff up your spuds

Meet the causa, a popular Peruvian appetizer

By Kim O’Donnel

Like most patriotic Americans, I love a mountain of mashed potatoes, swimming in a pool of gravy, mingling with the other goodies on my plate. But this year I’m ready to move beyond Norman Rockw