Announcements
November 25, 2011 - Thanksgiving dinner is behind us, and Christmas is a month away. Which means Black Friday, Put-the-Lights-Up Saturday, Buy-a-Tree Sunday, and Cyber Monday are upon us. In our family all the shopping, tree-buying, lights-raising usually happens the day or two before...
December 25, 2010 - Every year when Christmas comes along, I look around and wonder at how wonderfully blessed we are. Blessed to have family, friends, health. Blessed for the ability to walk, think, see, read, sing. I'm especially grateful for this website...
June 13, 2010 - Times, they are a changin'. If you are a regular follower of Simple Recipes, you may have noticed that we've been posting a bit more than usual. I thought I would take this opportunity to let you know what is...
December 11, 2009 - Some of you, I'm sure, are so together that you get all of your holiday shopping done by the end of July (I have at least one superhuman friend this organized). I suspect that there are a few more of...
October 11, 2009 - BlogHer Food attendees get ready to take an early morning power walk through San Francisco. From top left to right, Nikki, Leena, Alice, Sam, and Alanna, and crashing the party with her Charlie's Angels pose, our very own Jaden. A...
July 19, 2009 - Back in December, I wrote about my parent's kitchen remodel project. The new kitchen has been completed since May, and for the last few months we've been breaking it in. That and doing laps around the center island with looks...
July 4, 2009 - Happy Fourth! If you are still thinking of what to bring to the BBQ, consider one of our grill recipes, or picnic salads. Strawberry shortcake is still my all-time favorite Fourth of July dessert, or a freshly baked fruit cobbler...
May 1, 2009 - The trailer for the upcoming Julie & Julia movie is out! Meryl Streep plays the venerable Julia Child and Amy Adams, the blogger Julie Powell who chronicled cooking through Julia's Mastering The Art of French Cooking through her Julie/Julia...
March 10, 2009 - Hello everyone! I'm pleased to announce that there are some changes afloat here at Simple Recipes, which I hope you will like as much as we do. First, Simple Recipes finally now has its own domain name, SimpleRecipes.com. I actually...
December 24, 2008 - D'Oh! I forgot to pick up parsley! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our house to yours. May you remember everything you went to the grocery store to get. (While you're still at the store, not on the way home...
November 1, 2008 - Do you have an iPhone? Or a web-enabled cell phone? If so, you can now browse Simple Recipes with your phone, in a custom-built site, designed specifically for the itsy bitsy screens on mobile phones. When Apple came out a...
September 5, 2008 - Pssst... hey, did you hear about the party going on over at Twitter? It's huge. Hundreds of the most fun, interesting, informative, and playful food bloggers are hanging out on this social networking website, yakking away about almost everything, food...
August 19, 2008 - The first time I stumbled upon Jaden Hair's Steamy Kitchen food blog I had major blog envy. Who was this hilarious and irreverent woman? And how was it that she could make food look that good? I was hooked, an...
July 27, 2008 - Vacation. I don't take those very often, do you? Here is the view from the beach in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where I am encamped for the next two weeks. 3000 miles away from hot, dry, and smokey California (if anyone...
July 2, 2008 - The world of food blogs and the Internet is indeed a serendipitous one. A while ago I discovered a fellow named Hank Shaw in the comments section on Michael Ruhlman's blog. Hank seemed to know what he was talking about...
February 23, 2008 - Looking for a truly special recipe? Why not search the world of food blogs, where thousands of people around the world share their stories, recipes, methods, and photos on their individually crafted websites. Back in 2006, we introduced a new...
December 24, 2007 - May Your Days Be Merry and Bright. Okay, so the last time it snowed in Sacramento, it was the 1970s and we got all of 1 inch. But fruit? Fruit we have aplenty. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our...
July 4, 2007 - Our patriotic, blueberry enhanced Strawberry Shortcake
Here's wishing everyone a happy, safe, and delicious July Fourth celebration, on the 231st anniversary of our nation's birth. (Here's what started all the fuss.)
July 1, 2007 - Anything special? I'm thinking some classic grilled hot dogs and buns, topped with mustard and sauerkraut. Along with some corn, coleslaw, and baked beans. To me, this is the 4th of July, though I think we could use a few...
June 29, 2007 - It's the film every foodie worth her salt has been waiting for. Pixar's Ratatouille (rah-tah-too-ee) is about a rat with gourmet sensibilities who longs to be a chef, and manages to follow his dream into one of the best...
April 8, 2007 - Happy Easter! From our house to yours. A special Happy Easter from my nephew Austin, who dyed these eggs last night and who reluctantly agreed to make one smile for the camera that wasn't completely ridiculous. For his more usual...
January 24, 2007 - If ever there is a food lover's paradise, it's the Fancy Food Show. Like last year's show, the Winter Fancy Food Show, held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, was a smorgasbord of specialty foods - premium chocolate, prosciutto...
January 10, 2007 - Simple Recipes was voted Best Food Blog - Overall in the recent Food Blog Awards hosted by the Well Fed Network. It's quite an honor, especially considering the other finalists, gorgeous blogs with inspiring recipes, Melissa's Traveler's Lunchbox, Bea's La...
December 24, 2006 - Seasons greetings from the Simple Recipes Team: Elise, Chief Trainee in all things ("Mom, why aren't my beans growing up the pole?" "You planted bush beans" "There's a difference?"), "Mom", head of Quality Assurance ("add a teaspoon of sugar to...
November 11, 2006 - We have a new feature here on Simple Recipes - the ability to search for recipes from hundreds of food blogs. On our list of Favorite Cooking and Food Blogs from Around the World you'll find a search bar above...
July 30, 2006 - Elise flanked by her home-cooking soul sisters Nicole Weston of Bakingsheet and Slashfood and Kalyn Denny of Kalyn's Kitchen The BlogHer 2006 conference was this last weekend in San Jose, and well attended by some pretty fabulous food bloggers. The...
June 22, 2006 - If you've been following this site for a while you will have noticed that Simple Recipes isn't just about recipes. I often write about other food related topics, including book reviews, produce, shopping alerts for cookware, food blogs, and general...
May 20, 2006 - Update: Yahoo has made major changes at delicious.com, the result being that the Simple Recipes page at delicious.com no longer works. ~Elise 3/3/11 If you look up lots of recipes online, and then add them to your favorites, sooner or...
April 15, 2006 - Blown eggs decorated using a "batik" method with hot wax and several stages of dyeing. Happy Easter, everyone!
February 12, 2006 - Would you like to receive a notification by email when a new recipe or post has been added to Simple Recipes? Just sign up through through the form below. You can unsubscribe whenever you want, and we promise you...
February 6, 2006 - Sara Sacco Botto of Sacla Italia showing off pesto and tomato sauces she created. I recently attended the Fancy Food Show at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, with a press pass from a tip via fellow food blogger Amy...
December 24, 2005 - Here's wishing you a very merry Christmas - full of comfort and joy, from the cooks at Simple Recipes - Elise (cook-in-training), and parents dad (chief new recipe-try-er-out-er) and mom (30,000 meals prepared and counting).
September 20, 2005 - The grande dame of Mexican cooking, Diana Kennedy, paid Sacramento a visit last night and gave a cooking demonstration class for about 70 of her appreciative fans, my mother and I included. If you have heard of Diana Kennedy, you...
September 16, 2005 - As previously announced, this month's Sugar High Friday is all about Custard. 70 delectable entries have been submitted from food bloggers in 18 countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, India, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Sweden...
May 22, 2005 - This month's Is My Blog Burning? (IMBB) international food blog event took place this last weekend. For those unfamiliar with IMBB, each month food bloggers from around the world whip up a dish based on an announced theme and post...
April 11, 2005 - A new study by Temple University School of Medicine of overweight diabetics showed that reduced carbohydrate intake lowers appetites. When carbohydrates were restricted, study subjects spontaneously reduced their caloric intake to a level appropriate for their height, did not compensate...
March 29, 2005 - Josh Friedland of The Food Section interviews four French food bloggers in The Morning News regarding the premises of the hugely popular book, French Women Don't Get Fat. The interviewees are Requia Badr of Chez Requia, the lovely Clotilde...
March 20, 2005 - Simple Recipes is a family effort, and my two silent partners are the ones who actually know how to cook around here! My job is encourager, documenter, experimenter and learner. Mom and dad are the inspiration for this site and...
February 22, 2005 - The 2005 Independent Food Festival & Awards are here! A group of dedicated food bloggers from around the world has gathered to honor the great food experiences in their lives, to which they present their own individually crafted award...
January 19, 2005 - This week's Wednesday Food Section of the Sacramento Bee has a cover article on food blogs featuring Simple Recipes. My mom is even quoted on the first page. This website grew out of a love for my parent's terrific home...
