Sometimes you just need dessert. At my house, it's not often. No one is that into sweets. We'd all like an extra helping of mashed potatoes, thankyouverymuch, but it's not hard for us to pass on pie or pastry. But, still, I have a 4-year-old. And sometimes the kid just needs a cookie. I, ...

So this is one of my go-to things for A) when I don't know what else to make or B) when my husband is watching sports with friends and I want them to be happy so I can watch trashy reality TV upstairs by myself. It has as many names as there are injuries in the NFL, but I just call it pizza ...

I'm all over the ramen thing. It's flooded with irony, because for all of the "poor college kid" eating I did (read: loads of hot dogs and mac and cheese and frozen burritos), I never did ramen. Not once. I proudly abstained, though I'm not sure why, in retrospect. My husband laughs at me ...

When I started this clean eating project, I made a few solemn vows to myself. First, I vowed that no matter if I strayed and accidentally ate a bag of Doritos, I would come back and recover. In Weight Watchers, they used to use a car analogy: if you wake up to a flat tire, you don't shoot out ...

I like to see how tasty I can make things even when I'm on the dieting wagon. I mean, a girl cannot live on salad alone, and sometimes you still want a plate of pasta or a cream sauce, so it's kind of a fun game to me to see if I can pull off a family favorite with fewer fat and ...

I usually say I don't like pork tenderloin. I have had relatively poor results from the tubular meat in the Cryovac packaging in the past, plus I am just sort of freaked out by the look of it in general. Still, it was on sale the other day, and I can't resist a good deal. Also, I am growing ...