http://www.fayefood.com Dinner Ideas Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:01:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There can be a lot of fear involved with tarts. There is the fear of too much butter in the crust, too much work involved with rolling it out, too much clean up involved after rolling it out and just a general fear of will it taste good after ... http://www.fayefood.com/?p=899 Dear Dinner Confidential, I hate cooking. There, I said it...I have three kids with very different opinions on what good food is. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a horrible cook, but how can I get past...what one likes, the other does not? If only they would just keep their ... http://www.fayefood.com/?p=898 I used to work as a waitress. In fact I worked for so long as a waitress that even after I put down my pad and mini apron for a short career as a housewife, I could not imagine that I would ever be able to do anything else. ... http://www.fayefood.com/?p=897 Don't fool yourself. This is no time to think healthy.  I'm not saying it's not possible to make healthy baked beans--it is.  What I'm saying is, when you start dreaming on baked beans I can guarantee that these are the ones you're dreaming on.  The first time I had them ... http://www.fayefood.com/?p=896 When it's a struggle to get up from the raft of the bed And to get through the list that keeps rolling over from yesterday Leave it until tomorrow and eat some peaches.  Wait until you find the ones that are covered in a gentle fuzz of summer and smell like sweet red and yellow sun.  ... http://www.fayefood.com/?p=895 It's true that sometimes things just keep getting worse, but put last night's Mad Men meal in the fridge and it's just going to get better. I picked out the string beans, the potatoes, cut the kernels from a fresh cob of corn and sauteed it up with a ... http://www.fayefood.com/?p=894 Serve with biscuits. Grate a beet. Set it to the side. Braise string beans, whole and long--a spill of olive oil, a few parsley leaves and a piece of shallot in the braising liquor. Drain. Set to the side. Roast potatoes with thick slabs of onions, all ... http://www.fayefood.com/?p=893 Don't let anybody ever tell you that you can't make a nugget. Click for help: Dinner Confidential http://www.fayefood.com/?p=892 I had all intentions of loading the how to video for chicken nuggets on Friday and life got in front.  I made the nuggets, I taped me and the nuggets, rigging the tripod on top of a stool while Ferdinand watched any show he wanted in the other room and ... http://www.fayefood.com/?p=891 Chicken Nuggets have a bad rap. And they should. Most of them are full of about 76 ingredients that could make a person fall asleep before they even get through the list. I can't pronounce half of it, I don't know what the ingredients are even if ... http://www.fayefood.com/?p=890