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Pop Culture Potpourri: Death Of A Fashion Icon and Fashionable Vegetarians

DEATH OF A FASHION ICON I’ve been wearing her designs since high school so it was with great sadness that I learned legendary fashionista Liz Claiborne died yesterday. According news reports, Claiborne had been battling cancer and died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Tuesday. She was 78. Claiborne was born in Brussels, but immigrated to the United States as a child and grew up in New Orleans. According to the Claiborne website, the designer founded her namesake company with husband Art Ortenberg in 1976 and retired in 1989. That was around the time when I started wearing her clothes to … Continue reading →

Pint-Sized Vegetarians

Last year my then 16-year-old cousin came home from school and announced to the family that he was becoming a vegetarian (never mind that he had just started working at a pizza parlor famous for their meat-lovers pie). My aunt was a bit taken aback by his declaration, but together they designed a menu with options that worked for both of them (she cooks all the meals for their family of eight). Personally, I was shocked by the announcement. After all, this was a kid who inhaled hot dogs for the first half of his life—now he was trading it … Continue reading →

Unique Italian Dishes—Pine Nuts and Pizza

If you are like my brother then you are probably asking yourself (or in his case, his wife) why anyone would want to ruin a perfectly good pizza by topping it with pine nuts. Well, it’s not. (At least not in these recipes, click here for a pine nut pizza.) The pine nuts are for a vegetarian ravioli and the pizza… well, the pizza gets a healthy dose of cheese, chicken, bacon, artichoke hearts and baby spinach. As you can tell neither dish is particularly traditional, but that’s what makes them so uniquely delicious. If you are tired of serving … Continue reading →

Hearty Vegetarian Lasagna

This is not a dish you could easily whip up after working overtime at the office and had five hungry (an impatient) mouths to feed. It’s best made on a lazy Sunday or any other time when you have few interruptions. Despite the disclaimer I can tell you that the end result is well worth the effort. When I was first served this particular lasagna at a friend’s home in Hawaii I couldn’t believe it was vegetarian. There’s no mistaking that it lacks ground beef, but the dish was so hearty and the addition of the macadamia nuts gave it … Continue reading →

Free Pizza on Tuesday!

Pizza Hut is introducing a new hand-tossed crust. In order to get the word out, they’re offering a large hand-tossed crust with any toppings for $10.99. Yes, that means your husband can have a Meat Lover’s pizza (enough meat to feed a village!) for only $10.99. And I can get the veggie pizza loaded with good stuff for $10.99. Or how about the Chicken Supreme with a white sauce, for only $10.99. Am I making you hungry yet? $10.99 for a loaded pizza is a good deal. The Pizza Hut in my area serves very good pizza, and there is … Continue reading →

Chinese Buffets—Nutritional No-No’s

There’s a Chinese restaurant located directly across the street from our local mall that offers a lunch buffet for $6. The other day I was running behind schedule (after running errands at the mall) and decided to pop into the restaurant for lunch with my toddler daughter. I figured the buffet was bound to have something she’d eat and the restaurant doesn’t charge for children 2 and under so I figured I’d be getting a pretty good deal—two meals for $6. Later that night I learned that I got more than I bargained for. My daughter enjoyed the General Tso’s … Continue reading →