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Erika

Oven Roasted Chili Verde

I don’t know why this never occurred to me before.  I have a fantastic beef stew that I make in the oven, but a batch of chili? The idea started with a...

Brownies with Coconut Oil

The post holiday season usually finds most people tired of sweets and goodies- for me, that actually meant that I threw things out this year.  It seemed that from Thanksgiving to Christmas...

Testing, Testing

I am now the happy owner of a kindle fire, which I’m really hoping will help me blog more.  This is my first post from the fire, so I’m also going to...

Revisiting Artisan Bread

Every once in a while I’ll put together a batch of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.  Usually when I do that, I will then go on to make a few...

Golden Chicken with Garlic and Cilantro

Wow!  Here is a spectacular stir-fry!  The last time I decided I wanted to make a stir-fry, I went to the pantry to dig out some ingredients and was dismayed to find...

In The Spirit Of Things

It was really odd this year not hosting Thanksgiving.  Our current home is too tiny to even entertain four people, let alone a whole extended family gathering.  Since we may be here...

Praise The LARD!

It’s now a fact in the Tummy Treasure kitchen.  Lard produces a FAR superior pie crust. I mentioned a few weeks ago that we’d gotten a pig, and one of the things...

Pork Chops With Cranberry Mustard Sauce

At the beginning of September, Andy got an unexpected phone call.  It was from our “Pig Guy”.  Several years ago we’d bought a half of a pig from this person, and we...

Those End Of Season Green Beans

A few weeks ago I went to clean out my community garden plot for the season.  It was a dismal growing year for me over there, so I was surprised as all...