Favorite cooking magazines…

On March 27, 2014March 17, 2014 By Barbara StroudIn FOOD2 Comments

I have a few favorite cooking magazines. In general, I tend to gravitate to those types of magazines… I. Love. Food. I try to shy away from the super unhealthy recipes, and try my best to stay on a healthier kick…

These are a few of my favorites…

Cooking Light – I have been getting this magazine for at least 15 years. There are always recipes I can find in each and every issue. Great selection, variation… easy and fast recipes as well as time consuming ones. All are healthy without tasting like cardboard!

I still make recipes from 15 years ago… they’re fabulous! In addition to recipes, there is health info, exercises and general info to keep you healthy. I find myself sharing this info perhaps a bit too much!

Click here for more info or to subscribe!

Another favorite that is not known to be a “healthy” magazine, but they have fabulous recipes, and all can be made healthy if they aren’t already…

I bought my mom a cookbook of a compilation of their recipes, and i think she’s made every single recipe and has enjoyed each and every one. Now THAT’S a cookbook!

Click here for more info or to subscribe! It’s so worth $12 a year!

And of course… Southern Living… great recipes in addition to all things southern! Design, gardening, food… it’s all good!

Not healthy usually, but sometimes there are a few recipes… and for desserts, you can’t beat it!

Click here for more info, or to subscribe!

What are your favorite magazines for finding good recipes??

Catch you back here tomorrow!

F L A S H B A C K !

O n e Y e a r A g o: Featured Artist… Andre Lucero!

T w o Y e a r s A g o: Cooper River Bridge Run Registration (2012)

T h r e e Y e a r s A g o: Brett Whiteley Art Quote

Featured Artist… Martha Burkert!

On February 4, 2013December 8, 2013 By Barbara StroudIn ART, Featured Artist2 Comments

“Daisy” by Martha Burkert

There is something refreshing and different about Martha Burkert’s work. Brilliant colors, happy composition and style. Very nice! Check out Martha’s website.

Here’s a blip about Martha from the Maine Home + Design website:

MARTHA BURKERTMartha Burkert grew up in Texas and received a BA in English from Tulane University in New Orleans. She took studio classes at the Maine College of Art in Portland and the University of North Texas in Denton. Burkert was invited to an artists’ retreat at Maine Audubon’s Borestone Mountain Sanctuary in Monson in 2008, and she has exhibited widely at galleries in Maine and Texas. The artist now divides her time between Dallas and Yarmouth. She is represented by the Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Falmouth.Martha Burkert was compelled by the beauty of Maine to learn the technical skills needed to capture it. While she has been painting only since 2000, the artist already had a keen sense of design—she was a location scout and photo stylist for Thos. Moser and for home-furnishing catalogs. Burkert’s mature work shows the influence of some of Maine’s best colorists, including Fairfield Porter (1907–1975) and Alfred Cheney Chadbourn (1921–1998), who worked representationally but leaned toward abstraction.Burkert often creates small paintings and oil sketches on-site. Additionally, she takes photographs in black-and-white instead of color because the chromatic range is too limited for her needs. Yet all these direct responses to nature only serve as references and jumping-off points. In the larger paintings she executes in her studio, paint application, color resonance, temperatures, and commanding shapes become the artist’s focal points. “The bigger the canvas, the more I push color and form in a more exaggerated direction,” Burkert says.

Complex landscapes are often arranged into a repoussoir of more detailed flowers or trees in the immediate foreground, with expansive planes of loosely painted color in the background suggestive of the sea, clouds, or other major landscape formations. In Queen Anne’s Lace, Burkert evinces the liberties she takes with naturalistic representation, and water and sky have turned into bands of yellow and pink. The artist often experiments with color combinations until they feel right to her—an emotional and intuitive process that the artist confesses she doesn’t fully understand.

Growing up surrounded by the landscapes of Texas, Burkert appreciates the beauty of vast unfilled spaces. Maine’s landscapes, on the other hand, are more visually complex and seasonally changeable. The artist therefore likes to distill her paintings to their basic elements. “There is a beauty in simple things,” she says.

Catch you back here tomorrow!

Featured Artist (and a big congratulations) to MARC HANSON!

On October 24, 2012December 8, 2013 By Barbara StroudIn ART, Featured Artist2 Comments

“Right or Left?” by Marc Hanson (Image: MarcHansonArt.com)

A BIG congratulations to Marc Hanson for having his painting grace the cover of the November 2012 issue of Southwest Art magazine! It’s no easy task to land the coveted cover spot of a well known magazine, and lets just say, it is so well deserved. I follow a lot of artists, and I have to say when you mention Marc Hanson’s name, other artists are quick to compliment. Everyone loves this guy. Great guy… great painting… jeez! “Right or Left?” was awarded the Bronze Medal at the OPA (Oil Painters of America) National Exhibition in Coeur de Alene, ID in 2011.

“Right or Left”? Great title. I love creative titles and this is a good one! Where to start? This painting is amazing on so many levels and on each level it blends perfectly to make one snazzy painting! Obviously, that ball of fire where the sunlight is hitting the trees in the distance is nothing short of MIRACULOUS! The deep shadows with a few *poofs* of light peeking through, that gorgeous light in the distance, the FABULOUS color of the sky and all the little details orchestrated so perfectly. Congratulations Marc!

What a great article by Southwest Art! You can read all about Marc in this article written by Rosemary Carstens:

For Landscape Painter Marc Hanson, Art Is Everywhere His Travels Take Him

Fabulous article, wasn’t it?!!

Catch you back here tomorrow!

I would like to introduce… THE LOCAL PALATE MAGAZINE!

On December 1, 2011November 15, 2011 By Barbara StroudIn FOODLeave a comment

My husband and I were in a few of the downtown Charleston, SC galleries a few weekends ago when I spotted this magazine. THE LOCAL PALATE. It. Is. Exquisite. To say the least, this magazine is high class, with gorgeous mouth watering photographs and fabulous stories. Perfect timing with this magazine, with Charleston number ONE on the Conde Nast Traveler Reader’s Choice Awards, and HUSK Restaurant named as The Best New Restaurant in America! I am so thrilled to see this magazine, and trust me, you will be as well! Here’s a little blip from their WEBSITE:

We are a culinary magazine that focuses on the food culture of Charleston.

Charleston is a unique blend of culinary history, Southern hospitality, indigenous ingredients, and world class chefs.

We are local and we love it here. Drop us an email to say hi and find out more:
info@thelocalpalate.com

To that I say… YAY!! I urge you to visit their website, it’s as beautiful as the magazine.

Catch you back here tomorrow!

Always trust your source…

On February 9, 2011December 8, 2013 By Barbara StroudIn FOOD, Recipe, THOUGHTSLeave a comment

: Image: cookinglight.com

Always trust your source! Especially when looking for a recipe online. There are many websites and blogs out in the cyber world, but when it comes to throwing costly ingredients together and having it turn into something fabulous, TRUST YOUR SOURCE. I have been a subscriber to Cooking Light magazine since the mid 90’s. It has changed over the years, but it has always been a great magazine FULL of fabulous recipes.

I read mine, fold down the pages of the recipes I like, then I go online to MYRECIPES.com where I pull up the recipe and save it to my “recipe box”online. That way I can pull up a favorite recipe no matter where I am, a big plus for sure! Then I can pass the magazine on to a neighbor. You can also subscribe to their daily email which sends you a meal suggestion each day as well as a host of other emails targeted specifically to one type of food. This is done through MyRecipes.com, which has the recipes from Cooking Light, Southern Living and a host of other popular magazines.

If you haven’t picked up a copy of Cooking Light, I urge you to do so, or look at it at the library! Trust me, you’ll be copying down recipes like nobody’s business! It pays to subscribe, it’s much cheaper that way.

Remember to check out my photo blog at http://almostdailypic.wordpress.com – Until tomorrow…