Vicky Learns to Cook

I dont like the idea of meal kits, mostly because I love cooking, chopping, baking, all of it. I love planning every week and I love eating a really good meal. It makes my day when my meals are just scrumptious. But the advantages of meal kits are that you sort of have vegetables forced into your diet, if they're coming at you every week. And you dont have to wait in LINE at a store or market, which I just hate I'm so impatient. And I dont like CROWDS. They bump you, they get the thing you wanted, they're in the WAY when I'm on a mission to get something good. I know I need to work on that, but in the meantime while I'm in this bratty phase of my life, I am just in love with convenience. Then Imperfect Foods started to court me. The idea of eating the foods that would have been thrown out because they are small, or kind of ugly, or theres too much of it. Saving those foods, and offering them to us at a discount. They even have a big discount for those in need vi...

Happy New Year! We can all tell by the ads on social media that this is the season for losing weight. This is incompatible with all the pictures of bacon and cake all over the place. Having recently worked in a bakery, one of the scrumptious things we made were galettes. This is basically an open faced mini pie, about 5 inches around. They can be made savory or sweet. And they are awesome! When they are savory we often see them with an egg baked on top. However, anything made with pie crust is automatically fattening. You know it, I know it. We try to ignore it around the Holidays, but now that we've had our end of the year hurrah, we look around at our houses and see how much sugar and fat snuck its way in. It's a sad thing to have discovered something so good but so bad for you, really. So I've been thinking about it, and came up with a solution. This one was not bad. The savory galette I modeled it after is the sliced sweet potato white cheddar galette with...