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Erika

Weekend Extra: Earth Friendly Products

Recently I questioned the fine folks on the Cooking Light Bulletin Boards about their dish soap. For the life of me, I have pots, pans, and spatulas that retain soap flavor, and...

An After School Snack

By the time Abigail gets home from school every day she’s a starvin’ marvin. Lucky for me, she’s always been a fan of “healthy snacking.” Her favorite snacks are a piece of...

Simple Braised Chicken

Today’s recipe is almost on the line of the ridiculous as far as how easy it is. Literally, you drop ingredients into the pan. It could be considered difficult, if like me,...

The Best Carrot Cake So Far…

And it should be no surprise to anyone who has cooked from her book that this cake comes from the Queen of Deliciousness- Dorie Greenspan. When I realized that we were going...

The First Day of School!

Well, she’s there. Day one of second grade has begun. Long time readers will remember that last year Abigail was in a class with no one she knew from kindergarten- so she...

It’s Picture Day!

This first picture is from the Quatrain. It’s kind of a pre-cursor to jousting, with the knights challenging each other in accuracy. First they try to slice a cabbage with a sword...

One Last Hurrah!

Where did summer go? How is it that we are already at the threshold of the last weekend of summer, and the school year is knocking? Wow. I’m a little bummed. We’ve...

Inexpensive Chicken Thighs

Chicken thighs are one of those things that I never used to purchase. When I bought chicken it was in one of three ways. It was either whole, whole and cut up...

Delicious Salsa Verde

I love green salsa. I learned to make it a few years ago from a variety of sources, but I simply do not make it often enough. I have been seeing green...

Not Quite Drunken Beans

For Sunday Company Dinner we decided it was taco night. Now for some people that may mean hard shells, ground meat, cheese, and trimmings. Not so here. Ours was more of an...

Banana Bundt Cake from Dorie

With all the produce going in and out of the kitchen, this past week we discovered that the fruit flies had decided to make their home here. Not many, but where there...

New Poll This Week!

I’m contemplating my current method of posting about recipes here on Tummy Treasure and posting the actual recipe in the Recipe Trove. I like it because it keeps all of my recipes...