I was cooking up a storm last week, after my sister-in-law gave me a copy of January’s Semi-Homemade magazine. Everything looked so good, and the real thing wasn’t far off from the pictures. We loved the fruit-topped salmon, roasted chicken and vegetables, and apple-accented pork loin. Then I ran out of recipes. I really wanted to keep making new meals, so I reached into my cupboard and pulled out some old copies of Food & Wine I had never made the time to peruse. Three issues later, I hadn’t found a single recipe that sounded good. Many of them had pickled this or imported that. Some of the recipes were downright weird. Who would want to eat Pickle-Brined Chicken or Olive Oil Bundt Cake? And what the heck is a Feta-filled Arepa? The pictures on the covers were nowhere to be found inside the pages. (more…)
