Eliot's Eats

What to Cook When you Don’t Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers

By Eliot, on March 5th, 2025

I enjoyed this one and made (so far) two recipes from the book including a great skillet cookie recipe that I’m sharing (with my changes). . . . → Read More: What to Cook When you Don’t Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers

Cookbook Review: Truly Simple by Kristin Cavallari

By Eliot, on February 26th, 2025

Most of the “best of” or “best seller” cookbooks I pick up at the library are by authors I’ve never heard of. I’ve mentioned before, if they’re TikTok stars, I’ve never heard of them. If they’ve gone viral on YouTube, who knows? I don’t. So maybe my reviews are a little less star struck. . . . → Read More: Cookbook Review: Truly Simple by Kristin Cavallari

13 Going on 30 and Pina Colada Cupcakes

By Eliot, on February 22nd, 2025

13 Going on 30 is the Movies & Munchies film for February. Camilla from Culinary Cam is hosting.

I am a Jennifer Garner fan so I’m not sure why I never even heard of this film. We’ve all experienced the awkward middle school angst along with the obligatory mean girls that seem to . . . → Read More: 13 Going on 30 and Pina Colada Cupcakes

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple: A Review with Elevated Hot Dogs (or Ina, Part II)

By Eliot, on February 18th, 2025

I wrote recently that I didn’t post a lot of book reviews for Lit Happens, a FB book club. I decided that I would indeed do another review for our February Selection The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple. Camilla from Culinary Cam is hosting.

About the Book:

The international . . . → Read More: The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple: A Review with Elevated Hot Dogs (or Ina, Part II)

Ina, Part I: Go-To Dinners

By Eliot, on February 15th, 2025

I am hosting Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten for the February/March round of Cook the Books. (Announcement post here.)

While I was reading (and leading up to my post about her memoir), I decided to check out a few of her cookbooks. While at least one of her recipes . . . → Read More: Ina, Part I: Go-To Dinners

This is Not a Cookbook by Emily Marie Westervelt

By Eliot, on February 10th, 2025

This book includes “Flavor forward recipes with a new approach to cooking — no measurements, no strict ingredient list, no boundaries.” Are we ready for that? . . . → Read More: This is Not a Cookbook by Emily Marie Westervelt

The Secret Sandwich (and Dipping) Sauce for Super Bowl Sandwiches

By Eliot, on February 7th, 2025

I decided to go through my saved draft archives and see what I could clean up. Honestly, some of them just needed a bit of editing and could be published. Some were missing a lot if information, and some were just mere ideas that I jotted down and saved to explore and create later. . . . → Read More: The Secret Sandwich (and Dipping) Sauce for Super Bowl Sandwiches

What I’m reading….

By Eliot, on February 4th, 2025

If you haven’t noticed, I’m kind of all over the place with my posts recently. There was the retro rant about days gone by and a book slamming review. I’ve also been revisiting old drafts and trying to rework them to see the light of day.

I’m reading more and more in the evenings . . . → Read More: What I’m reading….

Table for Six and a pitcher of margaritas

By Eliot, on January 30th, 2025

I usually don’t do EE posts for Lit Happens, a FB book club that I mostly participate in. I’ve only done three plus the very late one I recently revisited, The Farmer’s Wife (which was a Lit Happens feature a few years ago), so I decided to post about our current January read, Table . . . → Read More: Table for Six and a pitcher of margaritas

What in the world?

By Eliot, on January 26th, 2025

The photo is the blog’s namesake: Eliot (RIP). I’ve been going down memory lane lately. I hate the way my old posts from ten plus years ago sound. This title, however, sounds like a post from 2012. This is a long rant and I couldn’t come up with anything else. . . . → Read More: What in the world?