I am stunned. Stunned, I tell you. As a blogger, I often get pitches in my inbox and today I received this: Dear Shari, dust off your secret shoebox and dig through your drawers and find those unwanted gift cards! According to a recent article from The Wall Street Journal, $41 billion in gift cards…
Tag Archive: food
How to Make Okra and a Very Brief Non-History of Zero
There are one of two things upon which every human being on the planet can agree: okra is good or it’s gross. I’ll give you a second to soak up that brilliance. In Pakistan and India, okra is the dish for all the aiming low subcontinent cooks. Of COURSE people “aim low” in Asian countries….
Feeling Like Robert Downey Jr’s Father
I watch the morning scene unfold, my eyes filling with tears as I hang my head guiltily. The children and I stand together, unified in our love for their father, as he turns the kitchen upside down, slamming cabinet doors, whipping through shelves, tossing contents aside as he searches for any amount of it. Mom….
11 Weird Foods I Have Tried
I grew up in an Irish-Catholic, meat-and-taters family. When I met my future sucker husband, the list of foods I WOULD eat was much shorter than the food I WOULDN’T eat. The first time he brought me home for dinner they served these bizarre foods like zucchini and chick peas and olives and herbs and…
This Is What Happens When You Google “Face Bacon”
It is no secret that we here at Aiming Low are big fans of bacon. Marj wrote an article called “Bacon: Nature’s Greatest Miracle.” Erin is a self-proclaimed bacon-loving Jew. We even teach you how to cook ridiculously delicious things with bacon, like “Cheesy Bacon Ranch Bread.” So imagine my bacon-revelry when I came across…
Aspic: The South’s Secret
Big surprise here–I am not as Southern as my family is. Oh sure, I can throw a y’all around like it’s nobody’s bidness,and I love chatting with strangers. But when it comes to Southern cuisine I am a grits and biscuit gal, not a gumbo and aspic gal. So did I just hear a couple…
Easy Cranberry Scone Recipe
I’ve mentioned before, repeatedly, that I’m not a baker. Which means that any and all baking recipes I post will be so easy, you might as well have your ten year-old do it for you. Such is the case with these delicious cranberry scones. Let’s face it, there are few things better than freshly-baked, warm-from-the…
